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Since Dexter: Resurrection began filming its second season in New York, the announcements and reveals have been coming fast and furious. There is so much being teased about this new season that it almost has no choice but to deliver on the hype.
The biggest reveals concern actors cast in new roles, many of them playing high-profile serial killers who will become Dexter's (Michael C. Hall) new targets. These names are big, it's such an eclectic mix, and there are so many of them, that Dexter: Resurrection is shaping up to be the crime TV event of the year.
Dexter: Resurrection Season 2's Killer Cast Keeps Growing
When the inaugural season of Dexter: Resurrection ended, Dexter was sailing away on Leon Prater's (Peter Dinklage) rental yacht with a stack of folders on serial killers, as if it were a to-do list. He hit the jackpot. His entire adult life has consisted of sussing out killers, confirming their guilt, then drugging and killing them and disposing of their bodies. Leon, it appears, has done all the legwork for him this time.
Season 2 will undoubtedly follow Dexter's journey to hunt down these killers, and at the top of the list is Don Framt. This is the supposed real name of The New York City Ripper, the infamous killer who was in the background of Season 1. While Dexter left Framt's file for Detective Claudette (Kadia Saraf), his sort of peace offering, we know that he comes face-to-face with this man eventually.
Fans were excited when it was confirmed that Brian Cox would be playing him. The Succession star has been seen out and about on set in a wheelchair. Viewers can't wait to see what happens when Dexter meets another veteran killer like Arthur Mitchell (John Lithgow).
From there, the show continued to make announcements. Dan Stevens (Legion, Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire) will be playing Owen Stark, a.k.a. The Five Boroughs Killer, and, most recently, Gabriel Luna (The Last of Us) has been added to the cast, confirmed to play Ray Ballard, otherwise known as The Sleepy-Eyed Stranger. It's inevitable that these two men will end up in Dexter's crosshairs.
But that's not it. Krysten Ritter, who played Mia LaPierre, a.k.a. Lady Vengeance, has been seen on set. The character supposedly died by hanging in her prison cell in Season 1, which has fans wondering if she appears to Dexter as a ghost or faked her death, as was theorized by some following those events.
There's also wrestler Chris Jericho, who has dabbled in acting and has been seen on set. Fan-captured images show Dexter injecting him on the street, his signature move before a kill. This means Jericho is likely to play a killer as well, since Dexter never targets innocent people. Another announcement was the addition of Kane Hodder to the cast.
Hodder is best known for portraying Jason Voorhees in four Friday the 13th movies, as well as Leatherface in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre III and Victor Crowley in the Hatchet movies. His extensive resume playing frightening bad guys ups the ante to a classic-horror level, sparking flashbacks to Ray Speltzer (Matt Gerald), a.k.a. The Minotaur Killer, from the original series.
Alongside all these killers, the season will also see Desmond Harrington reprise his role as Joey Quinn as a main cast member. He was a main character in the original series, a detective who had suspicions about Dexter and actually came close to catching him. Joey stopped his investigation to avoid upsetting Dexter's sister Debra (Jennifer Carpenter).
But now, as lieutenant of Miami Metro Homicide, the death of his long-time friend and colleague Angel Batista (David Zayas) will likely bring Joey to New York. While there, he will learn the shocking news that Dexter is still alive, and old wounds will reopen.
Plus, detectives Claudette and Melvin Oliva (Dominic Fumusa) will be hunting Framt and potentially learning more about Dexter's history from Quinn. Dexter's son Harrison (Jack Alcott) has become a police officer, and he's dating training officer Fiona (Sugar's Nona Parker Johnson), the daughter of Captain Mixon (Fargo's Bokeem Woodbine), which is sure to complicate things further.
That's especially since Alcott teases that Harrison and Dexter will be closer than ever this season. The season is shaping up to be a compelling cat-and-mouse game with multiple moving parts and individuals chasing their own form of justice.
Dexter: Resurrection Could Be the Biggest Crime TV Event of the Year
The lineup of incredible actors joining this season raises the stakes for Dexter: Resurrection, making this season feel more like event TV. Season 1 had a pretty great cast of killers as well, including Ritter, Marc Menchaca, Neil Patrick Harris, David Dastmalchian, and Eric Stonestreet, whose character, Al Walker (Rapunzel), is the only one still alive. There's no confirmation that he'll be back, but it's expected that Dexter won't let Al continue to murder innocent women, and Stonestreet has hinted at a return.
The original series had its share of high-profile actors playing killers in later seasons, once it found its footing. Most notable is Lithgow's Trinity Killer in Season 4, the best season of the series, who remains the benchmark to which all others aspire. There was also Jimmy Smits as Miguel Prado in Season 3, Jonny Lee Miller as Jordan Chase in Season 5, Colin Hanks as Travis Marshall (The Doomsday Killer), Edward James Olmos as James Gellar in Season 6, and the late Ray Stevenson as Isaak Sirko in Season 7.
In the sequel series Dexter: New Blood, Clancy Brown played a menacing killer. Patrick Dempsey's arc took a wild turn in the short-lived prequel series Dexter: Original Sin.
However, with this Season 2 lineup, Dexter: Resurrection is solidifying this new formula of bringing together multiple high-profile actors to fuel Dexter's killing sprees. He's in a brand-new playground in New York City where more killers than he can count are running amok like a buffet table for his dark urges. With this list virtually falling into his lap, how could he possibly ignore it?
The incredible cast list, including both returning main characters and new recurring ones, is setting up a massive season that cements Dexter: Resurrection's position as one of the best sequel series ever made. If the season shapes up to be as good as it sounds like it might be, chances are this series will be back for Dexter to continue to clean house in the Big Apple.
