Though Dexter: Authentic Sin is a prequel, set 15 years earlier than the occasions of the unique sequence’ premiere, the primary order of enterprise for the brand new Paramount+ sequence is to reply a query Dexter followers have had ever for the reason that announcement of a second new spinoff, Dexter: Resurrection: How is he nonetheless alive after the occasions of the final spinoff, Dexter: New Blood?
Within the premiere, Dexter Morgan (Michael C. Corridor) is within the backseat of an emergency car dashing via the snow and says in voiceover, “I’ve skilled dying so many occasions, however by no means my very own.” On the hospital, he’s narrowly resuscitated via extraordinary measures and says to himself, “Ah a beating coronary heart, I’ll take it… It truly is like they are saying, your life flashes earlier than your eyes.” After that, the story strikes again in time to the beginning of Authentic Sin‘s timeline. That settles the cliffhanger left open by New Blood after he was shot by Harrison and left bleeding out within the snow.
So why did the creatives determine to place that query to relaxation very first thing? Creator Clyde Phillips informed TV Insider (within the video interview embedded above) that the request to make this occur was truly two-pronged. “I was having dinner with Chris McCarthy, who co-chairman of Paramount … and he stated, ‘Can you determine a technique to get Michael Corridor into the start of the present in order that the viewers [knows] initially, they’re going to be listening to his voice narrating, and second of all, in order that we will stay up for doing one other present with Michael?’ Michael by then, had come to me and stated, ‘You understand what? Dexter is in my bones. Clyde, Dexter is in your bones. Let’s preserve going. Can you determine a means?’ In order that opening scene in Authentic Sin, I wrote in quarter-hour, it was simply there was begging to be launched, after which that led us to with the ability to perceive how Resurrection can certainly occur.”
Phillips additionally provided a little bit of a preview for what’s forward in Resurrection and the way its personal intro will align with this one: “At first of Resurrection, the physician says to Dexter, Michael Corridor, ‘Had you been shot within the summertime, you’d be useless, however you have been shot in zero diploma climate, and we ripped you open, and we’re capable of get you’ minutes earlier than he died, and also you … see police SUV is dashing as quick as it may well. And it’s a race in opposition to time to avoid wasting a life, and he did it,” he defined.
So there we have now it. Dexter lives to see one other day — which suggests a number of different individuals most likely gained’t. Dun dun dunnnn.
Dexter: Authentic Sin, Fridays and Sundays, Paramount+