‘Dexter’ creator explains all those shocking returns in ‘Resurrection’ premiere

This article contains spoilers for the first series of Dexter: ResurrectionEntitled “A beating heart …”.

Dexter (Michael C. Hall) is not the only one at the back of the dead to Dexter: Resurrection.

The well -named continuation of the popular Dexter The franchise not only relaunched the serial killer holder of hall after his death confirmed at the end of Dexter: New bloodHe also brought back three very familiar – and very, very Dead – Characters from the original series.

After Dexter was shot dead by his own son Harrison (Jack Alcott), the doctors restarted his heart, but he stayed in a coma for 10 weeks. Meanwhile, he hallucinated three of his greatest attacks: Arthur Mitchell alias the Trinity Killer (John Lithgow), the deputy prosecutor of District Miguel Prado (Jimmy Smits) and the SGT. James Doakes (Erik King). Seen for the last time in the original series of DexterThese ghosts from Dexter’s past all had a message for him: Harrison needs him. So when he finally woke up, Dexter abandoned an increasingly suspicious angel Batista (David Zayas) to find his son, who had just killed a rapist and left evidence of the crime in a chic hotel in New York.

“It’s his mission now, to find his son,” Dexter Clyde Phillips creator tells Entertainment every week. “And these return characters, as many surprises and as exciting as to see them, help launch the mission for what the show is: his desire to see Harrison. This is a spectacle of father and sons.”

The showrunner explains that Dexter’s coma gave the show an “incredible opportunity” to bring this gallery of thugs of the best bad guys from the franchise.

“I am friends with lithgow, we are in contact all the time, so it came to me that we can do this,” said Phillips. “But let’s bring more back. Why stop with him? “”

Phillips reveals that lithgow was indeed the first Dexter The alum will be thrown for the first, and he made snowball from there.

“We just acted bigger because we had thought:” Why don’t hell? It will work “”, says the creator. “And they were all enthusiastic. They all wanted to do it, and it was just a planning issue, and my production team and my casting team did a great job by doing it.”

All the cameras were filmed over a few days, and Phillips obtained chills when seeing the original stars return to their favorite roles of fans.

“Erik King takes his own,” I look at you, mother — Uh, “nobody can see that without applauding,” said the showrunner. “It’s so great. It was like a meeting. We were on the other.”

In addition to Lithgow, Smites and King, the series also brought James Reca as a dark Hallucination of his father’s dexter passenger. But Dexter Deb’s sister (Jennifer Carpenter), who played this role in New blooddid not return, and the showrunner reveals that his character has never been part of his plan for the first.

“No, we knew what the sequence would be and what exactly we wanted,” said Phillips. “And while we wrote it, we check them on their availability, and the stars aligned. Jennifer makes another show, 1923. “”

As for whether Deb could be seen in the later episodes this season, Phillips keeps this secret wrapped in plastic.

“I’m not going to tell you,” he said, laughing.

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However, he confirms that Angela (Julia Jones), the dexter cop New bloodWill not come back this season after helping to cover his past as a butcher of Bay Harbor. But that does not mean that Batista will also abandon the case.

“What I can tell you is that Dexter becomes the white whale of Batista, and it is obsessed with the courts,” said Phillips. “And this will take place throughout the season. The season becomes more exciting in each episode, and Angel plays a huge role in the last third of the season.”

Dexter: Resurrection Starts new episodes on Friday on Paramount +.