AMERICA’S MOST WELL-MEANING serial killer is coming out of retirement. Dexter—Showtime’s 2006–13 drama about Dexter Morgan, Miami police blood spatter expert and murderer of murderers—will be back next fall in a 10-episode limited series. Dexter (Michael C. Hall) was presumed dead after his boat capsized during a hurricane in the finale, but in the episode’s last minutes, we saw him living a quiet, solitary life working for a lumber company in Oregon. “We’re moving forward to an ending that will be, as Chekhov said, surprising but inevitable,” says executive producer Clyde Phillips.
In the revival, eight years have passed, and Dexter is in a new locale, “somewhere we’ve never seen him before,” says Phillips, who plans to start production in January. Familiar characters return (maybe Dexter’s now-teenage son, Harrison?), and…
