Dexter: Resurrection's Michael C. Hall opens up about his character's killing ritual

As the first two episodes of Dexter: Resurrection loom over us, the marketing campaign for the thriller series is in full swing. One of these marketing campaigns involved actor Michael C. Hall sitting down for an interview with ScreenRant reporter Liam Crowley in which he discussed what the character feels when he enacts his killing ritual.

For those who don't know, the premiere of Dexter: Resurrection takes place after the finale of New Blood, which streamed between November 2021 and January 2022. With Resurrection, Dexter will be bringing back his killing ritual after it was practiced briefly in New Blood. The significance of Bay Harbor Butcher's killing ritual is something Hall touched on in the ScreenRant interview.

What did Dexter: Resurrection's Michael C. Hall say?

Ahead of the Dexter: Resurrection premiere, Hall teased the ScreenRant reporter, Liam Crowley, that Dexter's killing ritual will return in the upcoming series. The series will see the return of the original Dexter, including his "kill room", including the saran wrap. Hall revealed that Dexter finds the best relief in his ritual, saying:

"It's sensual. It's a release. It's a release of an undeniable building tension that exists within him and that he manages and focuses on what he does. I think for Dexter to really return to his fully realized ritual is sublime."

Apart from discussing the return of the killing ritual in Dexter: Resurrection, Hall also revealed the reason why the makers retconned New Blood's controversial ending.

Even Hall believed that Dexter died in the New Blood finale:

The Dexter: New Blood had a controversial but bold idea. Dexter realizes all the good and innocent people who died around him. After this breakthrough, Dexter tells Harrison to shoot him, which he does. After that, we see Dexter bleed out on the snow, and the credits begin rolling, suggesting the idea that the Bay Harbor Butcher met his maker.

However, now we know that this idea has been for naught, as Dexter: Resurrection has retconned this bold idea from the New Blood finale. In the same ScreenRant interview, Michael C. Hall touched upon Dexter's "resurrection":

"I thought he was dead too, and I think Dexter did too, but some time passed. He wasn't shot in the head. The possibility always remained that that gunshot didn't kill him, even though it seemed definitive and it became an increasingly interesting proposition. If it didn't kill him, what would that look like? How would that change his world? How would it change his approach to being alive, being given a second chance like that? I definitely had misgivings. I mean, it felt like a crazy proposition. Are we going to end it that definitively and then say, actually no, he's still alive."

Then, Hall continued:

"And the key for me to making it feel worthwhile is he's not just still alive, [but] he's reborn or has a genuine second chance at life. One that sees him able to put down a lot of what he's been dragging around. All the collateral damage of his life and [to] reclaim himself in a more kind of streamlined, vital way as a killer. But [he] also experienced a sort of undeniable connection to his human side through a recommitment to his son. And all of that seemed like a worthwhile launching pad for the story to continue."

The first two episodes of Dexter: Resurrection are currently streaming on Paramount+ with Showtime.

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Edited by Ravikumar N