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Dexter: Resurrection has begun filming.

Here's another tidbit. Apparently there was a print interview with Clyde Phillips in December that didn't get a lot of attention. The Trinity killer spin-off is legit, is happening, and has already been written. John Lithgow will operate as the internal monologue and has already agreed to participate.

James Remar, David Zayas, and Jack Alcott have been officially confirmed for the series.

James Remar has confirmed via cameo that he will reprise the role of Harry Morgan in Dexter: Resurrection. I must admit that I am giddy at the notion of having joined this fandom when I did.

My first post of 2025!

Anyway, woefully, dreadfully behind on OS. I've seen two episodes and that's it. I'll get caught up.

Also, did Brian Moser have a very brief cameo in the restaurant?

That's the general consensus. I think there might be something to it. I have noticed that they emphasize his presence as a child in all the recaps/flashbacks so it is possible he is operating in the background, keeping taps on Dex.

EDIT: This is a distinct possibility because as of 1989 Brian Moser was a free man

I have some more information about how all this developed.

Firstly, the reason that New Blood ended up being truncated was because Michael C Hall was a hard one and done. Phillips only had him for one year. However, New Blood's finale was the most watched thing in Showtime's history, and as it turns out a sequel was ordered even before the merger with P+. Dexter Resurrection was written first and was Showtime's baby. It was the Paramount people who asked for Original Sin after the fact. Just a little nugget for thought.

I enjoyed the first episode of OS. I agree about adding context.

But is there some discontinuity going on here? It's been forever since I watched the first season of Dexter but wasn't there a flashback scene in the hospital with Harry, Dexter and Deb where Harry speaks in code and tells Dex to, you know, get started? And Deb asks what they're talking about?

I don't mind retcons. But it does feel like some contradictory stuff is going on around here.

You are correct, and in fact it seems to be the point they're trying to make. Dexter was not a reliable narrator. Apparently a brush with death is what has given us some clarity.

Also, the first episode did so well that they are running two this week in celebration.

Well, the first episode is out and so far I love it. It feels like Dexter. The goal so far it seems is to add context, as even with the nurse, Dexter's first kill, there are things we didn't know, most especially that Dexter was a lot more proactive and aggressive, not merely a dutiful apprentice.

Oh and potential spoilers for Dexter: Resurrection: a 'leak' making the rounds is asserting that D:R will be set primarily in New York City. Peter Dinklage is rumored to be the series antagonist and will be working with a fixer played by Uma Thurman. Gillian Anderson was also said to be up for something, though it might have been the part Uma is playing. D:R starts shooting the first week of January and has been announced as airing in June so we'll find out soon.

Apparently, I don't know as much about the Dexter canon as I thought I did.

Based on nothing, I assumed that Dexter and Harry never worked for Miami Metro at the same time, that Dexter's time in CSI predated Masuka's and that Angel Batista had only recently joined the homicide division maybe a two or three years (tops) before the first season.

Apparently, literally every single one of those things is wrong. It's not a big deal. But the backstory I imagined is simply mistaken, it seems.

Hall's voiceover works well. The clash with Gibson's voice is noticeable but not off-putting. Hall's Dexter has his "normie voice" and also his "Dark Passenger voice" and they're quite different from each other.

All in all, it looks like the faith that a lot of us had in OS is pretty well justified.

It's been forever since I last watched season 01. But there is a possible challenge going on with the canon. Iirc, Harry seeing Dexter's "handiwork" for the first time essentially drove him to suicide.

There's an argument that OS wouldn't be fulfilling its mandate if it didn't explore that storyline in greater depth. Thing is tho, the full significance of Harry's death has to be apparent to the audience but not to Dexter since he won't discover what happened until the first season of the main show.

It's not worth worrying too much about right now. But I am curious to see how that will work out.

I'm curious how long Slater will be on the show if this goes to multiple seasons. From what I remember season 1 asserts that after Denise Crosby gets iced, Harry recovers and goes on for...was it another year or so? Then he commits suicide. I suppose it all depends on how time works on the show.

Sneak Peak.

The implication is that the series takes place right as Harry returns to work after his ordeal with the nurse. It also appears that we will get a replication of the scene where Dexter kills her.  You will remember that she was his first.