Jennifer Carpenter and Michael C. Hall star in 'Dexter' Sunday night at 8 on Showtime.
Don't rest just yet, Dexter.
The Ice Truck Killer's reign is over, but Miami forensics sleuth Dexter Morgan is worrying about another murderer - himself - as season two of Showtime's drama series Dexter starts Sunday, September 30. Played by Michael C. Hall, the title character secretly uses his professional skills to ensure criminals get what's coming to them. Now his problems become bigger when his victims' final destination is discovered.
"There are a lot of spinning plates," says Hall, whose first-year Dexter work won him the Television Critics Association Award for individual achievement in drama (along with Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild Award nominations). "A lot was resolved at the end of the first season, and I think all of us are aware we have a pretty tough assignment in trying to live up to it. The writers have really been bold, sort of laying down the gauntlet that they aren't afraid to play their biggest hands."
Indeed, the first new episodes demonstrate that significant Dexter plot twists come earlier than anticipated. "I'm really pleased that it isn't some sort of watered-down simulation of the first season," Hall says. "This season really has its own chaotic character."
Unlike the first year, which was based on Jeff Lindsay's novel Darkly Dreaming Dexter and earned Emmy nominations for editing, theme music and main title design, the new instalments are completely original creations. So is the FBI agent played by cast addition Keith Carradine, who's brought in to spearhead the search for the so-called Bay Harbor Butcher.
Good-natured
That killer actually is seemingly good-natured Dexter, a fact unbeknown to everyone around him, even his adopted sister Debra (Jennifer Carpenter). She's a police detective residing with him while struggling to recover from her own near-fatal encounter with the Ice Truck Killer, who was her beau before his full identity was known - including his being Dexter's brother.
- Jay Bobbin, Zap2it
