‘Dexter: Authentic Sin’ Creator Reveals the Actual Purpose He Needed to Do This Prequel

In the case of Dexter Morgan, followers acquired to study quite a bit about what makes him tick and why all through Dexter‘s eight-season run and the primary spinoff New Blood. The twisty drama was peppered with flashbacks that confirmed the serial killer’s origin story, from the second he witnessed his mom’s brutal homicide to his personal first kill and past. 

So it’s pure that some followers could surprise what Dexter: Authentic Sin, a prequel going down 15 years earlier than the occasions of the unique collection, has to supply. And it’s a query that Authentic Sin creator and unique collection showrunner Clyde Phillips is glad to reply.

“It was mainly the inevitability of it — how he’s fated to develop into who he’s,” Phillips informed TV Insider of the arc of the brand new collection. “But in addition we acquired the possibility to indicate his inexperience, his evolution…. We meet him in faculty. He’s by no means kissed a lady. He doesn’t have any mates. He doesn’t know the best way to hug his personal sister.”

Against this, the unique collection launched audiences to a totally skilled assassin first. “After we met the unique Dexter, Michael C. Corridor, he was 35 years outdated and utterly developed as a serial killer, and we now have the distinctive alternative — I don’t know what present will get to do that — to indicate how this all started and to indicate him making errors and his social awkwardness and his incapability to speak to his circle of relatives, and the eventual urge taking on that destiny due to his childhood, of what occurred to when he was two years outdated.”

Whereas there shall be some acquainted floor tread by the brand new collection, there’s a brand new deal with the connection between Harry (portrayed by Christian Slater right here) and Dexter (Patrick Gibson) that audiences didn’t get to see earlier than — significantly as a result of it follows Harry far past Dexter’s personal recollections of his adoptive father.

“We acquired to extra deeply discover that and discover the father-son relationship,” Phillips mentioned, noting the guts of the present is “a father-son story in addition to a household story in addition to a serial killer story in addition to a cop present.”