The slick drama, much like its main character, has had a resurgence in the face of certain death over the past five years.
So big was its success that prequel Dexter: Original Sin aired last year, and the main man himself has had new life breathed into him with Dexter: Resurrection… despite being shot in the chest.
When we speak, it’s early morning in Mexico City, shortly before the team launched Resurrection’s first trailer at fan event CCXP. Still not entirely awake (and who could blame him), Hall still has the disarming friendliness of his on-screen counterpart.
Since then, he’s captivated audiences thanks to Dexter’s self-aware inner monologue, told through voice-over as he navigated his own murderous moral code – only killing those that truly deserve to die, and have evaded traditional routes of justice. The series ran for eight seasons.
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Dexter boss admits sequel Resurrection isn't "necessary" but says it's "welcome"Dexter's Michael C Hall on how character surviving gunshot "became increasingly compelling""It's been the through line as far as my acting career goes for some time," he adds. "Whether I had returned or not, I think Dexter would remain in the first sentence of anything anybody wrote, if they were to write about what I've done as an actor, and that wouldn't change whether or not we did more.
Hall tells us that Dexter’s resilient nature is one of the main reasons he is lured back into playing the character time and again, and by this point it’s intertwined with his career forever – in some ways, like his own version of Dexter’s Dark Passenger, which drives the character to kill even as he fights against it.
"It's also a sort of family of collaborators that has developed and solidified over the years, and I really enjoy working and collaborating with those people. So that's a part of it, too. You know, it's nice to keep that family together and alive."
After all, a TV show with such longevity would not exist without the fans, who have become attached to Dexter and his twisted, often hypocritical, form of justice. The serial killer killer has become not just an iconic character, but a full franchise – with Resurrection following the launch prequel series Original Sin in 2024, plus mini-series New Blood in 2021.
"Finding his way through new environments, new relationships… He obviously went into some sort of exile before we rejoined him in Iron Lake, in New Blood, and went through some sort of gauntlet over the course of that season that ended with his, seemingly, being taken out by his son.
Specifically, it was the Trinity Killer arc during Dexter’s fourth season. The murderer, played by John Lithgow, finally met the end of Dexter’s scalpel – but left a parting gift, with Dexter returning home to find his son, Harrison, crying in a pool of blood and wife Rita dead in the bathtub: Trinity’s final victim.
Hall says: "I think he was traumatised by being, to some degree, bested by Trinity coming home and discovering that his wife had been killed. You know, after killing Trinity with some degree of reverence, to realise that he'd been double-crossed sent him reeling. He was shattered by it. I think only now is he coming out of it and able to put it behind him.
"He obviously still has a life that's, in its way, pretty complicated, but I don't think he's dwelling in the same way on the past."
But after so many years in his shoes, has Hall taken away any lessons from playing the killer-with-a-conscience? Hall says yes – though notes it may also be down to age and the gift of hindsight.
"That might just have to do with growing older, but spending time considering and playing a character who has a pretty significant list of givens that he honours, and at this point has plenty of experience with how things can go wrong if you deny those guide posts, it probably encourages me to consider and cultivate my relationship to my own list of givens – that thankfully don't centre around my undeniable need to kill people."
"Gosh, I don't know," he says. "I think, well, maybe a sense that growth cannot always be about moving forward, but can be about moving back and revisiting something that once was with the sense of personal wisdom that you didn't have before.
"I don't know if there's a shortcut to that, I think you have to go through whatever experiences lead you to that being the only choice you can make or the only thing to do."
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