Dexter: New Blood [DVD] [2022]

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In August 2022, TV executive David Nevins continued to stoke the flames of a possible return during his chat with The Hollywood Reporter about future plans for Paramount Global:

With the chance of a fresh start in front of him, there's no telling where Harrison will go, or what he will do with what he's learned from his father's moral killer code.However, Showtime Networks president Gary Levine put a slight downer on all this just one month later in September 2022 when he said "It's too soon to say," if New Blood will return. "We're still basking in the glow of the limited series, which was everything we hoped for." TV Linereported that the show was the most watched series in Showtime history averaging 8 million weekly viewers across all platforms. 3 million viewers tuned in for the finale on the premiere night alone making it the most-watched Showtime finale in eight years, falling just short of the Dexter finale which attracted a whopping 3.3 million viewers in 2013. You would think the answer to this would be "no" if you watched the season finale. After his past was unearthed, Dexter – who had rebranded himself to become local shop worker Jim Lindsay – finally met a grisly end. This "creative take" finds Dexter now living in the fictional town of Iron Lake, New York, where he works as a shopkeeper under the assumed name of Jim Lindsay. A string of incidents in the small town are a cause for concern for Dexter, who believes he's quashed his desires, but fears his "dark passenger" is about to awaken. We're willing to bet that the Dexterverse will continue somehow. Whether that means another season of Dexter: New Blood, or a series under a new name following Harrison, we'll have to wait and see. Regardless, in a conversation with Deadline, show-runner Clyde Phillips seemed confident in Dexter: New Blood's value to Showtime, in addition to confirming his interest in continuing Harrison's story.

Dexter wouldn't be Dexter without a new romance to complicate things for him. His new love interest is Angela, played by Julia Jones, a police chief who sounds like she's got a fair amount in common with the titular character. “She’s challenging," Jones explained at Comic-Con. "She’s got a lot going on. She’s in a wonderful arc, and she’s dynamic and she has a lot to overcome.“There are a lot of things. What is the future [of] the Dexter franchise? I am actively working on that." The gun came up way earlier in the original version of the scene, so that the entire scene was at gunpoint," Alcott recalls. We can't say that was the greatest decision on her part considering viewers already know he's got a bit of a dangerous killer streak himself, but there you go. Many fans were displeased with the ending, the biggest head scratcher being: why did Dexter take Deb off life support? Most people believe Dexter made the choice, because the stroke placed Deb in a vegetative state, and she truly had no chance of a normal life. Was this supposed to be Dexter showcasing the compassion he had so desperately craved throughout the series? Some glimmer of kindness to hint at his true humanity? Who can say? Because even though it is the right ending, the ending the show deserves, the ending the character deserves, the ending the character wants, there's definitely some guilt that comes with killing off one of the coolest TV characters of all time."

But I also feel incredibly blessed to be part of a story that's going to affect a lot of people. Whether it makes them angry, happy or sad, whether it makes them hate me, whatever, it's cool to tell stories that affect people—regardless of what that effect is." Speaking to TVLine, showrunner Clyde Phillips said: “It’s all in Showtime’s hands. If they were to call me and say, ‘We want to do Harrison. We want you to figure it out,’ I’m pretty busy, but I would drop everything I’m doing and jump right into it. I would love to do it, but it’s really up to Showtime.” Last we saw of the teenage son of a serial killer, he was on the run after shooting his dad dead. Police chief Angela Bishop (Julia Jones) took the blame for Dexter's death after finding Harrison with the body, allowing him to start life anew without the burden of his dad's murder to deal with. Hall confirms that Dexter "hasn't been killing" since we last saw him, restraining himself from urges. "If he’s going around killing people, he’s going to struggle to have a life… though he does maintain a fantasy that he’s able to do both.”But in a bid to escape Iron Lake as Dexter's past misdeeds started catching up with him, Harrison ended up turning a gun on his dad after he failed to abide by his own rules over who should and shouldn't live. As a result, who will be joining the cast list is up for debate. He has no ties to any living relatives that we know of. He could literally go anywhere. Another Dexter ending to blow up the Internet? Don't mind if we do. Dexter: New Blood, we cannot wait to binge you. Considering that none of us, really, saw that coming, we're a a bit curious about the future of Dexter: New Blood—or more accurately, if there will even be a future at all. Thankfully, in addition to Alcott, Dexter: New Blood's show-runner seems down for another season. Here's everything we know so far. I think the ending was ‘mystifying’ at best to people," Hall explained during Comic-Con@Home 2021. "‘Confounding,’‘exasperating,’‘frustrating’... the chance to revisit it and, maybe in the process, redefine the sense of the show’s ending and the sense of the show’s legacy more broadly was certainly a part of our motivation.”