Dexter: Resurrection

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Dexter: Resurrection
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Genre
Based on
Developed by Clyde Phillips
ShowrunnerClyde Phillips
Starring
Music by Pat Irwin
Country of originUnited States
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons1
No. of episodes9
Production
Executive producers
Cinematography
  • Joe Collins
  • Radium Cheung
  • Ramsey Nickell
Editors
  • Perri Frank
  • Katie Ennis
  • Louis Cioffi
  • Gaston Jaren Lopez
  • Sean Cusack
Running time45–66 minutes
Production companies
Original release
Network Paramount+ with Showtime
ReleaseJuly 11, 2025 (2025-07-11) –
present
Related

Dexter: Resurrection is an American crime drama mystery television series developed by Clyde Phillips. It is a sequel series to Dexter: New Blood and Dexter , and it features Michael C. Hall reprising his role as Dexter Morgan alongside Uma Thurman, Jack Alcott, David Zayas, Ntare Mwine, Kadia Saraf, Dominic Fumusa, Emilia Suárez, James Remar, and Peter Dinklage. It premiered on July 11, 2025, on Paramount+ with Showtime.

Contents

Premise

Ten weeks after Dexter: New Blood , Dexter Morgan, who has recovered from his near-fatal gunshot wound, traces a missing Harrison to New York City, as Captain Angel Batista from Miami is hot on their trail. [1]

Cast and characters

Main

Recurring

Notable guest stars

Episodes

No.Title  [8] Directed by  [9] Written by  [10] Original release date  [11]
1"A Beating Heart..." Marcos Siega Clyde Phillips & Scott Reynolds July 11, 2025 (2025-07-11)
Now living in New York City and working as a bellhop at the Empire Hotel, Harrison Morgan gives in to his own dark urges and murders Ryan Foster, a sexual predator who was attempting to rape Shauna, a hotel guest whom he had drugged. Dexter Morgan, having survived being shot, is left comatose for ten weeks, during which time various faces from his past urge him to go on living. As he undergoes physical therapy to recover, he is visited by Teddy Reed and Angel Batista. The two reveal that Angela, after discovering that Logan shot at Dexter in his cell, recanted her allegations of him being the Bay Harbor Butcher with a note from Angela suggesting that she did it to repay Dexter for solving her friend Iris' murder. Matt Caldwell's murder has been attributed to his serial killer father while Logan's has been ruled self-defense. However, Angel is now suspicious of his former best friend's guilt in the Bay Harbor Butcher case and has Dexter legally declared alive. After learning from his physiotherapist of Foster's murder, Dexter deduces that Harrison committed it, and, still in a weakened physical state, escapes from the hospital in search of his son.
2"Camera Shy"Marcos Siega Scott Buck July 11, 2025 (2025-07-11)
Dexter investigates the crime scene at the hotel and cleans up blood spatter evidence that Harrison had missed. Dexter is urged by his Dark Passenger in the form of his deceased adoptive father, Harry, to guide his son, but he is reluctant to upend Harrison's life, preferring to protect him from a distance. Reclaiming his real identity, Dexter rents an apartment and buys a car, settling into life in New York. Dexter meets and befriends a UrCar rideshare driver named Blessing Kamara. While talking with Blessing, he learns of a serial killer called the Dark Passenger who is targeting rideshare drivers. Dexter identifies the killer as Ronald "Red" Schmidt, but chooses to save the life of Red's next victim over getting the kill, a change from how Dexter has operated in the past as he now cares about other people. After Dexter's disappearance, Angel attempts to find him with the help of Teddy. Haunted by his killings, Harrison sells Dexter's truck, which he still owns.
3"Backseat Driver" Monica Raymund Nick ZayasJuly 18, 2025 (2025-07-18)
Dexter's work as a UrCar rideshare driver gets off to a rough start, which Blessing helps him to rectify. Dexter undergoes acupuncture with Blessing's daughter Joy, which restores his strength. Dexter acquires new kill tools from the Internet. Angel learns from Teddy that Dexter is in New York City and announces to Joey Quinn and Vince Masuka that he is retiring from the police force to chase after something. Harrison continues to grow closer to his co-worker Elsa, but becomes the prime suspect in Foster's murder. Rather than confess, Harrison reveals that he has been squatting in vacant rooms with Elsa's help as an alibi. Dexter successfully sets a trap for Red by setting himself up as the Dark Passenger's next victim and learns that Red is bitter because his cab driver father lost his job and committed suicide because of rideshare apps driving him out of business. Before Dexter kills him, Red reveals that he was invited to a dinner party for serial killers, which Dexter decides to attend in Red's place.
4"Call Me Red"Monica RaymundAlexandra Franklin & Marc MuszynskiJuly 25, 2025 (2025-07-25)
Posing as Red, Dexter meets Leon Prater, a billionaire venture capitalist who runs a secret society of serial killers and has a large trophy collection celebrating infamous serial killers, including Arthur Mitchell, Brian Moser, and (unknowingly) Dexter himself. Dexter is drawn to the group, whose other members are Al, Lowell, Gareth, and Mia LaPierre; he bonds with Mia, who targets sexual predators who escape justice after her young sister was raped. Dexter later kills Lowell in order to save his next victim. Inspired by Prater, he resumes his practice of collecting blood slide trophies. Angel arrives in town and unsuccessfully attempts to convince Harrison to tell him what he knows about Dexter's activities. Learning of Foster's murder, Angel offers his help to the NYPD, but does not tell them his suspicions about Harrison, determined to catch Dexter and sympathizing with Harrison. Harrison continues to struggle with his guilt over Foster's murder, culminating in him nearly turning himself in to the police after meeting Angel and being rejected after trying to kiss Elsa, but Dexter reveals himself to Harrison and stops him.
5"Murder Horny"Marcos SiegaKatrina Mathewson & Tanner BeanAugust 1, 2025 (2025-08-01)
Dexter reunites with Harrison, who reveals Batista is hunting him. Harrison opens up about his guilt, but is reluctant to have his father back in his life. Harrison continues to struggle with his guilt over Foster's murder and being a suspect in the investigation. To distract himself, Dexter spends more time with Mia and considers revealing the truth about his identity to her. Mia suggests collaborating on a kill, and Dexter discovers that Mia does not have a code, and will target anyone when the need to kill strikes her. Unable to kill Mia without drawing attention to himself, Dexter has her arrested as she is about to kill her next victim and frames her for Foster's murder. Prater orders Charley to deal with Mia. She promises Mia that her stay in prison will be comfortable and short. Dexter finally opens up to his son and promises not to try to mold him in his image anymore, and the two begin to rebuild their relationship.
6"Cats and Mouse"Marcos SiegaKirsa ReinAugust 8, 2025 (2025-08-08)
Dexter and Harrison continue to grow closer and attend the wake of Blessing's mother, Prudence, together. After snapping at Dexter, Blessing opens up about his painful past as a child soldier for the Revolutionary United Front. Harrison considers attending New York University. While babysitting for Elsa, he is deeply disturbed by his fantasy about killing her neglectful landlord, Vinny. Angel tells Wallace and Oliva his suspicions about Dexter and Harrison, but before they can question Mia, Charley bribes a guard to kill her and make it look like a suicide. Dexter stalks his next target, Gareth the Gemini Killer. Gareth in turn stalks Dexter back to his apartment, where Dexter offers him a drink laced with M99 before killing him. Prater invites Dexter on a trip with the rest of the group. At the meeting place, as Dexter heads to Prater's helicopter, he thinks about how suspicious it is that members of Prater's circle are disappearing at the pace that they are right after he joined. To Dexter's shock, Gareth arrives and boards the helicopter, revealing that the Gemini Killer is in fact identical twin brothers.
7"Course Correction"Monica RaymundTeleplay by : Hilly Hicks Jr.
Story by : Hilly Hicks Jr. & Edith D. Rodríguez		August 15, 2025 (2025-08-15)
Prater's killers are taken to a rented castle for a retreat where Dexter, in character as Red, takes the opportunity to cryptically talk about his true self. Inspired by Dexter, Prater tells him about his difficult past and his friendship with the serial killer who murdered his parents. Dexter reveals to the remaining Gemini Killer that he killed his brother; enraged, he attacks Dexter, who kills him and portrays it as self-defense, while also attributing Lowell's death to him. Back in the city, Dexter accompanies Harrison on a college visit as he considers a career in law enforcement. They attend a lecture by Detective Wallace on the New York Ripper. Having spotted the Ripper's murder weapon in Prater's collection, Dexter offers Wallace some advice on the case. Angel visits Blessing's house to meet Dexter, who offers to give him a ride. While driving Angel, Dexter warns him to stay away from him and his son, but Angel refuses, wanting to avenge the deaths of his friends. Dexter forces him out of the car and Angel secretly places his AirPods in the passenger door as he exits to use as a GPS tracker.
8"The Kill Room Where It Happens"Monica RaymundTeleplay by : Tony Saltzman
Story by : Tony Saltzman & Dane Anderson		August 22, 2025 (2025-08-22)
A suspicious Charley investigates Dexter, who prepares to kill Al, but Al decides to go home to Wisconsin early, leaving Dexter unable to kill him. Dexter's attempts to help to heal the relationship between Blessing and his daughter only cause more issues when Dexter breaks Blessing's confidence by telling Joy that her father was a child soldier. Harrison applies for college and spends the night with his new friend Gigi. With Elsa's situation worsening, Dexter abducts her landlord, Vinny, to his kill room in a wig shop and threatens him into treating his tenants better before releasing him. Having been tracking Dexter, Angel finds the kill room, but Dexter escapes and then finds and destroys the AirPods. Without evidence to back up his assertions and the laws that he broke chasing Dexter, Angel's credibility is damaged with Wallace and Oliva. Wallace later calls Quinn, who reveals that Angel has left the police force, a detail Angel had failed to share with her. As Dexter has dinner with Harrison, they are approached by Prater, who has learned of Harrison's existence.
9"Touched by an Ángel"Marcos SiegaTeleplay by : Scott Reynolds
Story by : Matt Venne		August 29, 2025 (2025-08-29)
Evading Prater's questions, Dexter flees the restaurant with Harrison, explaining the recent events to him. Harrison is later cornered and questioned by Charley who he provides a version of the truth to. Furious, Dexter tracks her down in her car and strangleholds her. Charley reveals that she is forced to work for Prater who has been paying for treatment for Charley's cancer-stricken mother and that her actions were all done on Prater's direct orders. Angel continues his pursuit of Dexter, but the revelation that he is operating outside of the law destroys his credibility with the NYPD ending his collaboration with them. Having seen Dexter with Prater, Angel approaches him and reveals Dexter's true identity. Prater lures Dexter into a trap in his vault where he offers to be Dexter's benefactor on the condition that he kill Angel. Dexter instead cuts Angel free and Angel immediately attacks Dexter in a rage before being fatally shot by Prater who locks Dexter in the vault. Dexter confesses that he's the Bay Harbor Butcher, but did not kill James Doakes and María LaGuerta. Angel dies cursing Dexter's name, leaving Dexter devastated and furious at Angel's death.
10"And Justice for All..."Marcos SiegaTeleplay by : Clyde Phillips
Story by : Clyde Phillips & Alexandra Franklin & Marc Muszynski		September 5, 2025 (2025-09-05)

Production

Development

On July 26, 2024, at San Diego Comic-Con during the Dexter: Original Sin panel, a sequel series to Dexter: New Blood titled as Dexter: Resurrection was announced. It is developed by Clyde Phillips who is also serving as an executive producer and the showrunner. [12] On January 7, 2025, Michael C. Hall, Scott Reynolds, Tony Hernandez, Lilly Burns, and Marcos Siega were added as executive producers. Production companies involved with the series are Showtime Studios and Counterpart Studios. [13] According to Hall and Phillips, Resurrection is designed to have multiple seasons. [1]

By August 2025, a writer's room for the second season was in preparing for pre-production, despite no official renewal by that point. [14]

Casting

Upon the series sequel announcement, Hall was confirmed to reprise his role as Dexter Morgan. [12] On January 7, 2025, David Zayas, Jack Alcott, and James Remar joined the cast to reprise their roles as Angel Batista, Harrison Morgan, and Harry Morgan as series regulars. [13] A few weeks later, Uma Thurman was cast as a series regular. [15] In February 2025, Peter Dinklage, Ntare Mwine, Kadia Saraf, Dominic Fumusa and Emilia Suárez joined the cast as a series regular while Krysten Ritter was cast in a recurring role as serial killer Mia LaPierre / Lady Vengeance. [16] [17] [18] In March 2025, Neil Patrick Harris, Eric Stonestreet and David Dastmalchian were respectively cast as Lowell / The Tattoo Collector, Al / Rapunzel and Gareth / The Gemini Killer in guest role, [19] [20] [21] [22] with Steve Schirripa joining in a recurring capacity. [23] John Lithgow revealed in an interview that he will reprise his role as Arthur Mitchell / Trinity Killer. [24] [25] In the same month, David Magidoff joined cast to reprise his role as Teddy Reed in a recurring capacity. [26] In late March 2025, Jimmy Smits was confirmed to be reprising his role as Miguel Prado. [25] In April 2025, Marc Menchaca and Reese Antoinette were cast in guest roles. [27] On June 1, 2025, Erik King was confirmed to be reprising his role of James Doakes. [28]

Filming

Principal photography for the series began on January 9, 2025 in New York City, [29] and wrapped on June 18, 2025. [30]

Release

Dexter: Resurrection premiered on Paramount+ with Showtime on July 11, 2025, with its first two episodes. [31]

Reception

Audience viewership

Dexter: Resurrection became Showtime's most-streamed premiere, drawing 3.1 million global cross-platform viewers within its first three days, surpassing Dexter: Original Sin 's streaming premiere record. It is 44% more than Original Sin and 76% more than Dexter: New Blood . [32]

Critical response

The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reported a 95% approval rating based on 59 critic reviews. The website's critics consensus reads, "Dexter brushes off a minor case of death and multiple false endings to reemerge as vital as ever in a knowingly absurd continuation that rediscovers the thrill of the hunt." [33] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned a score of 63 out of 100 based on 15 critics, indicating "generally favorable" reviews. [34]

References

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  2. 1 2 Morrison, Sean (July 25, 2025). "Every Serial Killer In Dexter: Resurrection Explained". Screen Rant . Archived from the original on July 26, 2025. Retrieved July 26, 2025.
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