Dexter: Resurrection

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.

Dexter: Resurrection
Genre	Crime drama Mystery
Based on	Dexter by James Manos Jr. Dexter by Jeff Lindsay
Developed by	Clyde Phillips
Showrunner	Clyde Phillips
Starring	Michael C. Hall Uma Thurman Jack Alcott David Zayas Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine Kadia Saraf Dominic Fumusa Emilia Suárez James Remar Peter Dinklage
Music by	Pat Irwin
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	10
Production
Executive producers	Clyde Phillips Scott Reynolds Marcos Siega Hilly Hicks, Jr. John Goldwyn Sara Colleton Tony Hernandez Lilly Burns Michael C. Hall
Cinematography	Joe Collins Radium Cheung Ramsey Nickell
Editors	Perri Frank Katie Ennis Louis Cioffi Gaston Jaren Lopez Sean Cusack
Running time	45–66 minutes
Production companies	Clyde Phillips Productions Sal Centric Counterpart Studios Showtime Studios
Original release
Network	Paramount+ Premium
Release	July 11, 2025 (2025-07-11) – present
Related
Dexter Dexter: New Blood Dexter: Original Sin

Dexter: Resurrection premiered on July 11, 2025, on Paramount+ Premium, and comprises ten episodes. In October 2025, the series was renewed for a second season.

Premise

Ten weeks after the events of 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 article: List of Dexter characters

Main

• Michael C. Hall as Dexter Morgan, a serial killer who targets criminals who slip through the justice system
• Uma Thurman as Charley, Prater's right-hand and head of security
• Jack Alcott as Harrison Morgan, Dexter's son, who works as a bellhop at the Empire Hotel
• David Zayas as Angel Batista, the former captain of the Miami Metro Homicide unit and an old colleague of Dexter's
• Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine as Blessing Kamara, a rideshare driver Dexter befriends, and becomes his landlord
• Kadia Saraf as Detective Claudette Wallace, a New York City Police Department (NYPD) detective investigating the murder at the Empire Hotel
• Dominic Fumusa as Detective Melvin Oliva, Wallace's NYPD partner
• Emilia Suárez as Elsa Rivera, a cleaner at the Empire Hotel and Harrison's friend
• James Remar as Harry Morgan, Dexter's deceased adoptive father who manifests as his internal conscience during times of conflict
• Peter Dinklage as Leon Prater, a billionaire venture capitalist who runs a secret society of serial killers

Recurring

• David Magidoff as Teddy Reed, Iron Lake's acting Sheriff
• Jason Alan Carvell as Stefan Pike, the Empire Hotel's manager and Harrison's boss
• Darius Jordan Lee as Lance Thomas, Harrison co-worker at the Empire Hotel and friend
• JillMarie Lawrence as Constance, Blessing's wife
• Reese Antoinette as Joy, Blessing and Constance's daughter
• Eric Stonestreet as Al / Rapunzel, a member of Prater's secret club with a penchant for ponytails
• Krysten Ritter as Mia LaPierre / Lady Vengeance, a member of Prater's secret club, who becomes friends with Dexter
• Emily Kimball as Gigi, a student tour guide and Harrison's new girlfriend
• David Dastmalchian as the Gemini Killers, a dual role of identical twin brothers, both named Gareth, and members of Prater's secret club^[2][3]
• Marc Menchaca as Ronald "Red" Schmidt / Dark Passenger^[4], a serial killer whom Dexter impersonates in order to infiltrate Prater's secret club
• Bryan Lillis as Ryan Foster
• Sharon Hope as Prudence Kamara
• Liam Delgado as Dante Rivera
• McKaley Miller as Shauna
• Kit Flanagan as Mildred
• Eric Tabach as Sam Edelstein

Notable guest stars

• John Lithgow as Arthur Mitchell / Trinity Killer
• Erik King as James Doakes
• Jimmy Smits as Miguel Prado
• Max von Essen as Keith / The Canton Clubber^[4], a former member of Prater's secret club
• C. S. Lee as Vince Masuka^[5], a forensic analyst for the Miami Metro Homicide Department
• Desmond Harrington as Joey Quinn, lieutenant of the Miami Metro Homicide Department^[5][6]
• Neil Patrick Harris as Lowell / The Tattoo Collector, a member of Prater's secret club with an obsession for tattooed human skin
• Steve Schirripa as Vinny, Elsa's landlord
• Lesley Stahl as herself, a television journalist who interviews Prater^[7]
• Christian Camargo as Brian Moser / Ice Truck Killer, Dexter's deceased brother who appears to him as a vision^[8]

Episodes

No.	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original release date
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 attempting to rape a drugged hotel guest. Dexter Morgan survived being shot and wakes from a ten-week coma, during which he saw visions of people from his past urging him to go on living. Teddy Reed and Angel Batista visit Dexter at the hospital and reveal that Angela Bishop, after discovering Logan shot at Dexter, recanted her allegation of Dexter being the Bay Harbor Butcher. Dexter receives a note from Angela suggesting she recanted to repay him for solving her friend Iris’s murder. Reed also shares that Matt Caldwell's murder has been attributed to his serial killer father and Logan's murder has been ruled an act of self-defense. Batista, however, continues to suspect Dexter of being the Bay Harbor Butcher and has him legally declared alive. Dexter hears familiar details about the Ryan Foster murder at the Empire Hotel and realizes his son Harrison as the killer. Despite a weakened physical state, Dexter escapes the hospital and heads to New York City to find 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 Zayas	July 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 Raymund	Alexandra Franklin & Marc Muszynski	July 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 Siega	Katrina Mathewson & Tanner Bean	August 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 Siega	Kirsa Rein	August 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 Raymund	Teleplay 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, an unidentified killer whom Wallace failed to catch. 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 Raymund	Teleplay 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 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 Siega	Teleplay 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. He spares Charley only when she reveals that working for Prater is the only way she can afford her mother's cancer treatments. Angel continues his pursuit of Dexter, but the revelation that he is operating outside of the law results in Wallace cutting his access. Unaware of who Prater truly is, Angel approaches him and reveals Dexter's true identity. Prater then summons Dexter to his vault and offers to be his new benefactor if he murders Angel. Dexter instead cuts his friend 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 is the Bay Harbor Butcher, but that he did not kill James Doakes and María LaGuerta. Angel dies cursing Dexter's name, and Dexter is devastated and furious at Angel's death.
10	"And Justice for All..."	Marcos Siega	Teleplay by : Clyde Phillips Story by : Clyde Phillips & Alexandra Franklin & Marc Muszynski	September 5, 2025 (2025-09-05)
Trapped in the vault, Dexter hallucinates Brian Moser taunting him. A phone call from Quinn enables Dexter to find Batista's cell phone and call Harrison for help. Taking a job as a waiter at the gala, Harrison sneaks in, but is caught by Charley. Searching through the vault for clues, Dexter finds Prater's serial killer files and a dossier on Charley, which he is able to use to blackmail her. Furious at Prater's breach of trust, Charley quits and leaves New York with her mother. Dexter deduces for Harrison that the vault code is the inmate number of the man who killed Prater's parents. However, Prater captures Harrison and tries to kill him and Dexter. Having been given M99 by Dexter for protection, Harrison knocks Prater out and Dexter kills him. Dexter recovers his blood slides before triggering the vault's alarm as he escapes and the NYPD finds Batista's body, the murder weapon with Prater's fingerprints, and the New York Ripper's file, revealing his name to be Don Framt. Dexter dumps Prater's body into New York Harbor and takes his files and yacht to hunt more targets, accepting that he will never have a normal life, but that his connections to Blessing and Harrison will help him to be more human.

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.^[9] 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.^[10] 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 preparation for pre-production, despite no official renewal by that point, set to start on October 6, 2025.^[11][12] On October 8, 2025, Showtime officially renewed the series for a second season.^[13]

Writing

In the second season, the formula of the series Dexter will be returned to, in which apart from having a "Big Bad", which he describes as "great", "little bads" for weekly episodes will return.^[14]

Casting

Upon the series sequel announcement, Hall was confirmed to reprise his role as Dexter Morgan.^[9] 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.^[10] 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 guest 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] Principal photography for the second season is set to begin in mid-2026.^[12]

Release

Dexter: Resurrection premiered on Paramount+ Premium 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 62 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 65 out of 100 based on 17 critics, indicating "generally favorable" reviews.^[34]