‘Dexter’ reboot: Jennifer Carpenter to return as ‘dead’ Debra [watch]

American actress Jennifer Carpenter is set to reprise her role as Debra Morgan in the Dexter reboot series titled Dexter: New Blood, which premieres on 7 November on Showtime.

‘DEXTER: NEW BLOOD’

Dexter: New Blood is the reboot series of crime drama Dexter which was originally released in 2006. The series is set over 10 one-hour episodes in Iron Lake, New York, 10 years later.

“Set 10 years after Dexter went missing in the eye of Hurricane Laura, the series finds him living under an assumed name in the small town of Iron Lake, New York. Dexter may be embracing his new life, but in the wake of unexpected events in this close-knit community, his Dark Passenger beckons,” read the series synopsis according to Showtime.

Michael C Hall who plays the show’s titular character Dexter will be returning as well as his sister, Debra Morgan, played by Jennifer Carpenter.

Who are the other cast members?

• Julia Jones
• Alano Miller
• Johnny Sequoyah
• Jack Alcott
• Clancy Brown
• Clyde Phillips

JENNIFER CARPENTER TO PLAY ‘DARK PASSENGER’

In the series finale of Dexter, Jennifer Carpenter’s character Debra Morgan, who is the sister of Dexter, had died. In the reboot of the series, Debra is returning but as a “dark passenger”. 

“I don’t think of her as a ghost [but] more of a link or an echo or an inconvenient truth for Dexter,” said Carpenter during a Dexter Q&A at the Television Critics Association summer press tour.

“[She] comes back to sort of haunt and punish and caretake and provoke and love [him],” she continued. 

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MICHAEL C. HALL ON DEBRA’S RETURN

Michael C. Hall said that Debra is “an internalised character” for Dexter and she also “represents how far he’s fallen.. without a compass.”

“I was so excited about Jennifer doing this because I knew she would be able to shapeshift and come at Dexter from so many different places. And, of course, she did,” he said at the event. 

“And it was really fun to crack open our sense of [Dexter]’s internal landscape because it’s much more pyrotechnic and crazy than it used to be,” he continued. 

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