2 l November
7 - 13, 2021
Northeast Oregon TV Weekly
BY JAY BOBBIN
Jennifer Carpenter and Michael C. Hall
return in “Dexter: New Blood,”
premiering Sunday on Showtime.
Michael C. Hall adds ‘New Blood’
to ‘Dexter’ revival
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Old habits die hard, as Dexter Morgan
is about to reaffirm.
Showtime revives one of its most
popular dramas as Michael C. Hall
resumes the title role of the well-
intentioned serial killer in “Dexter: New
Blood,” premiering Sunday, Nov. 7. Set
a decade after Dexter left Miami amid a
hurricane, the new series establishes him
in an upstate New York town with a new
identity and a romance with the police
chief (Julia Jones) ... but that doesn’t keep
him from resorting to his lethal former
ways when fresh circumstances prompt
that.
“There were all kinds of things that
would float through my mind,” Hall
reflects of continuing “Dexter” after the
supposed finale in 2013. “I think my
mother wanted him to be in a monastery.
She just wanted to watch him meditate for
10 hours. That didn’t happen. Honestly,
I think from the day the show ended
until we started – and perhaps even
finished principal photography on – this
revisitation, it’s been percolating. It’s been
something that’s been maybe a sometimes
unconscious preoccupation. There’s been a
sense of it being unfinished business.”
Indeed, Hall acknowledges criticism
from many “Dexter” devotees about the
ending eight years ago: “I think a lot of
what was mystifying or dissatisfying to
people is a lot of what creates the appetite
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we’re hopefully satisfying now. The show
did not end in a way that was definitive for
people, or gave anybody a sense of closure.
We didn’t hear from Dexter; he didn’t
say anything to us when the show ended,
and I think it left audiences, if nothing
else, in a sense of suspended animation. I
think a big part of our motivation was to
definitively answer the question of what
happened to this guy.”
Other familiar faces also resurface,
including Jennifer Carpenter as Dexter’s
sister Debra and John Lithgow, who won
a Primetime Emmy Award as the so-
called “Trinity Killer” ... though fans of
the original show may question how they
could reappear. Carpenter says she deems
Debra, in her “New Blood” form, “more of
a link or an echo or an inconvenient truth
for Dexter. That’s what I was attracted to.”
Dexter’s son Harrison also figures into the
plot, now played by Jack Alcott.
Hall also returns as a “Dexter” executive
producer, along with Clyde Phillips, Scott
Reynolds and Marcos Siega. The “New
Blood” shoot was completed in just under
four months in Massachusetts (doubling
for fictional Iron Lake, New York),
and Phillips calls it “an extraordinary
undertaking,” particularly under pandemic
conditions. “It was the hardest I think all
of us have ever worked, and we’re really
proud of the fact that we accomplished
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