Dexter: Resurrection brought the titular serial killer to New York after he miraculously survived the events of New Blood, but the showrunner and producer have revealed how the series nearly had a completely different setting.
The story sees Dexter (Michael C. Hall) reconnect with his son Harrison (Jack Alcott) in New York while also investigating a secretive cult of serial killers that meet in the city once a year to swap tips and trade stories about their victims.
The Paramount+ series was met with a more positive reaction than the previous series, Dexter: New Blood, and earned itself a 95% critic score and a 90% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes. It wasn’t all good news though, as fans are still bitter that Dexter: Original Sin was canceled after one season.
Still, Dexter: Resurrection Season 2 is on the way. But showrunner Clyde Phillips and executive producer Scott Reynolds recently revealed how the season almost had Dexter living in a completely different place.
Dexter almost lived in a fancy apartment building, not Blessing’s house
While much of the series revolves around Dexter facing off with serial killers in central New York, a lot of his character development took place in the basement apartment he rented from Blessing Kamara (Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine), a fellow UrCar driver with a tragic past as a child soldier who Dexter befriends.
The storyline allowed Dexter to examine his own traumatic past involving his son, and he even managed to repair their relationship. But according to the producer, Dexter nearly lived in a glass apartment building.
“We originally had Dexter in a glass apartment, so you could see the city in the background, and Blessing was part of the story, but they didn’t live together,” Reynolds told Final Draft.
“There’s something about the light and the darkness and the way that Dexter can always hear the life upstairs, as he’s living this quiet, dark life down in the basement. It opened up the show in a really remarkable way.”
Phillips added that Dexter would’ve been the manager of the building, instead of a UrCar driver. Which would’ve changed much of the show’s format, since Dexter uses his job as a driver to act as a cover for the serial killer he was impersonating.
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