SPOILER ALERT: The next reveals main plot factors from Showtime‘s Dexter: Unique Sin premiere episode.
Everybody’s favourite serial killer Dexter Morgan is again within the premiere of Showtime’s Dexter: Unique Sin, the franchise’s first prequel at present obtainable to stream through Paramount+ with Showtime.
From creator Clyde Phillips, showrunner on the primary 4 seasons of the OG sequence Dexter, Unique Sin is ready in 1991 Miami. It follows a younger Dexter (Patrick Gibson), as he transitions from pupil to avenging serial killer. When his bloodthirsty urges can now not be ignored, Dexter should be taught to channel his internal darkness.
With the steerage of his father, Harry (Christian Slater), he adopts a Code designed to assist him discover and kill individuals who should be eradicated from society with out getting on regulation enforcement’s radar. This can be a specific problem for younger Dexter as he begins a forensics internship on the Miami Metro Police Division.
Phillips spoke to Deadline at a junket and the present’s premiere in New York Metropolis this week the place he revealed what impressed him to journey again in time and increase the universe.
“After we wrote [Dexter: New Blood], Chris McCarthy from Paramount and MTV Leisure got here in and stated, ‘You understand, I’m a Yellowstone man. I do prequels not sequels, like 1883 and 1923.’ Because it seems, I had seen Yellowstone, 1883 and 1923; I simply love these exhibits,” shared Phillips.
“So Chris requested if I might give you a prequel within the subsequent 10 days. I sat with a few writers and we discovered ourselves actually excited concerning the alternative to return to the roots and discover how Dexter is fated to be who he’s,” he added.
Phillips notes that after exhibiting Showtime’s Gary Levine and McCarthy their work, the latter stated, “Go ahead, phenomenal. Let’s do it.”
To additional hook up with the Taylor Sheridan-verse, Phillps revealed they used Yellowstone‘s casting administrators, John Papsidera and Kim Winther’s firm to forged Unique Sin.
L-R: Patrick Gibson as Dexter Morgan, Molly Brown as Debra Morgan and Christian Slater as Harry Morgan
Michael C. Corridor, who famously performed grownup Dexter within the mothership sequence, dedicated to the prequel as an govt producer and the present’s narrator, it was introduced at SDCC earlier this 12 months. He additionally makes a short look within the premiere episode of Unique Sin exhibiting the connection between it and New Blood.
“I don’t see how we might’ve achieved this with out Michael’s participation,” Phillips shared. “Michael is the manager producer of this present and he brings us residence. It makes the viewers come again. Once you hear Michael’s voice, you lean ahead. And I would like the viewers to be leaning ahead all through the entire present.”
He continued, “Michael C. Corridor’s voice additionally has humor and resonance. You get the sense that Patrick Gibson is fated to change into Dexter, there’s no escaping it. As a result of we’re listening to Michael’s voice and watching Patrick, if concerning the OG present, that Dexter survives and that’s necessary. It offers us extra possibilities at extra storytelling.”
The Unique Sin premiere “And within the Starting…,” picks up moments after the occasions of New Blood after Dexter has been shot by his now grownup son Harrison (Jack Alcott). Whereas the finale led viewers to imagine Dexter had died, it was by no means confirmed. This tactic was actually used to see whether or not there was an urge for food for extra tales and there completely was. The restricted sequence was topped Showtime’s most-watched sequence in historical past, averaging over 8 million weekly viewers throughout all of the premium cabler’s platforms.
L-R: Reno Wilson as Bobby Watt, James Martinez as Angel Batista and Christian Slater as Harry
Again to the premiere of Unique Sin, Dexter’s physique is discovered after having been shot and rushed in a police automotive to the native hospital within the small fictional city of Iron Lake, New York the place he had been dwelling as a neighborhood wilderness retailer clerk, Jim Lindsay. As an apart, the surname of Lindsay is a nod to the creator Jeff Lindsay who wrote the sequence of novels that impressed the mothership sequence which ran for 8 seasons from 2006 to 2013.
Current day Dexter leads to the emergency room the place he’s in vital situation along with his survival wanting bleaker by the minute. Out of the blue, issues take a flip for the higher as medical doctors revive the serial killer’s heartbeat.
“It truly is like they are saying, your life flashes earlier than your eyes…,” says Dexter because the scene pivots to the second of his beginning.
“To an awesome extent, that’s what we’ve achieved and what we got down to do,” stated Phillips of the distinctive strategy of tying the exhibits collectively. “100 years in the past, I wished to finish [Dexter] with him on the execution desk along with his life flashing earlier than his eyes however that by no means occurred. In an odd means, we acquired to make it occur anyway.”
Christina Milian and Patrick Gibson
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Whereas it is perhaps doable to start your Dexter franchise journey with Unique Sin, it will be finest to binge Dexter after which New Blood, in that order. After Unique Sin is over, it’s going to make means for the brand new sequence, Resurrection, which is able to go into manufacturing in early 2025. To be clear, Resurrection is ready within the current day and can star Corridor with narration by Gibson.
Unique Sin additionally stars Reno Wilson, Christina Milian, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Molly Brown, Alex Shimizu and James Martinez.
For followers of the unique sequence, there are many Easter eggs scattered all through Season 1. By going again in time, the writers are in a position to resolve theories as soon as and for all like Dexter’s true parentage, which can be tackled in a later episode.
“It was liberating; there’s a lot secrecy on a serial killer present,” he stated with a smile when requested how he felt about resolving the theories. “For individuals who like Easter eggs, that is an Easter egg hunt. Within the writers room, we’ve a blast with this. There’s a scene the place—wait, I can’t give that one away. Folks from the previous, their presence is felt, identified, or secretly seen on this present. And since we happen in two time durations, we are able to do flashbacks inside our personal present. We’re in 1991 however flashback to 1973 and see Harry and Laura Moser get collectively, study their affair and meet Child Dexter. You’ll be taught what’s change into folklore; be taught the lore of the present which is that Dexter is certainly fated. His future is ready and there’s nothing he can do about it,” Phillips concluded.
L-R: Alex Shimizu as Masuka, Sarah Michelle Gellar as Tanya and Patrick Gibson as Dexter Morgan
