For two decades, Michael C. Hall has played one of television’s most recognizable characters. The actor has reprised Dexter Morgan across multiple iterations of the Showtime hit series Dexter, which premiered in 2006. While Hall has delivered memorable performances in shows like Six Feet Under and Harlan Coben’s Safe, Dexter remains his defining role. The character has become to Hall what Tony Soprano is to James Gandolfini or Olivia Benson is to Mariska Hargitay.
Over the years, viewers have watched the mild-mannered blood-spatter analyst navigate his double life, become a father, and eventually try to guide his son through the same darkness that has defined his own existence. Dex’s story continues in the Paramount+ thriller Dexter: Resurrection, which takes the serial killer to New York City and introduces him to the city’s own underworld of serial killers. The series has been well received by audiences and critics, with its first season earning a 95% Rotten Tomatoes critics’ score and a 90% audience score.
Still, there’s something about Miami that feels particularly natural for Dex’s story. Between the tropical weather, neon-soaked streets, and cultural diversity, the city often felt like a character in its own right. The original series remains one of television’s most rewatchable crime dramas, and its appeal hasn’t diminished after two decades. Dexter has recently enjoyed renewed attention on Paramount+, coinciding with the return of Dexter: Resurrection for its second season on October 30. Whether longtime fans are revisiting the original series or new viewers are discovering it for the first time, there’s a lot to enjoy in Dexter’s life.
Four franchises, four completely different ways of getting underneath
your skin. This is the one built out of your particular fear, why it works so well on you, and what
it would leave behind.
Your nightmare does not wait outside the door. It waits for you
to close your eyes, which you are going to have to do eventually, because nobody has ever
won that particular argument.
- Freddy is horror’s cruellest idea: a threat that lives in the one place you cannot
guard, cannot lock, and cannot avoid forever. - You are the one who is fine during the film and wide awake at two in the morning. Your
own head is where this does its damage. - These films understood exhaustion as a horror engine. The kids on Elm Street do not lose
because they are weak. They lose because they are tired. - You can lock every door in the house. You still have to sleep.
Your nightmare is not really the doll. It is the face of the
person you tell, and the way they decide, very kindly, that you have imagined all of it.
- Chucky works precisely because he is absurd. That is the trap: the more accurately you
describe him, the less anybody is going to believe you. - You are the one shouting at the screen because the characters are not listening. You
know that feeling from real life too. - The franchise is at its best when the adults in the room are the real obstacle, and you
have met those adults. - By the time somebody finally believes you, you will have handled most of it on your own.
Your nightmare has your number, knows your name, and has almost
certainly been inside your house before. The worst part is that you already know them.
- Scream is the only one of these where the killer takes the mask off and turns out to be
somebody who was at the party. - You are the person who calls the twist out loud before it lands. You watch people the
same way you watch films. - The franchise made the rules of horror part of the plot, which means the survivors are
the ones paying attention. You would be paying attention. - Everybody is a suspect, including the person who just offered to walk you home.
Your nightmare is not really about you. It is about the people
asleep down the hall, and the feeling that whatever is here is not interested in leaving.
- The Conjuring films are domestic horror. The house, the family, the perfectly ordinary
room that quietly stops feeling ordinary. - Your instinct is to get everybody into one room. Your fear is protective rather than
personal, which is rarer than it sounds. - This is the one franchise where belief is the weapon. The people who come through it are
the ones who are not alone and refuse to be. - Whatever is here did not come for you. It came for the household, and you are the one
standing in the hallway.
Dexter Is Back in ‘Dexter: Resurrection’ — But It’s Not the Same as Before
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Image via Matt Infante/Paramount+Time has a way of making even Dexter Morgan feel powerless, and in Dexter: Resurrection Season 2, the serial killer is confronting something he never quite anticipated: a midlife crisis. For starters, his eyesight is beginning to fail, forcing him to embrace a pair of spectacles. But that’s hardly his biggest concern. Harrison is forging his own path, and Dexter remains determined to guide his son through the darkness without allowing him to repeat his father’s mistakes. Meanwhile, New York has no shortage of dangerous company. Dexter finds himself caught between two serial killers with very different approaches to terrorizing the city. With his personal life becoming increasingly complicated and two dangerous killers commanding his attention, Dexter has plenty of work ahead of him. Getting older might be inevitable, but retiring from the hunt is something else entirely.
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