Do not read unless you have seen the series finale ofDexter: New Blood.
Is parting such sweet sorrow?
But will Harrison live to kill again?
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ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: So this is the ending you wanted, right?
You always wanted Dexter to die?
Did you immediately pitch that Dexter would die and it would be at the hands of Harrison?
Let me think about that ‘cause it was two and a half years ago, believe it or not.
It was at the beginning of July of 2019 when I spoke with him.
There was nobody else, really.
I think it would’ve been unsatisfying if anybody else killed Dexter.
In those initial meetings, did you want bothJennifer CarpenterandDavid Zayasto come back?
We definitely wanted Jennifer.
Well, we had to work on the big bad in a big way.
I’m talking about his underground lair with all of the women’s bodies preserved forever.
I’ve never seen that before.
Yet Dexter killed Logan (Alano Miller).
Did you wrestle with that idea?
It was organic to the story.
Dexter had to get out of the police station.
He was in a lot of trouble.
That left him alone with Logan.
Logan was the last obstacle for him to get out of there.
It was great when Dexter’s remembered all the players from his past.
There are a lot of Easter eggs in these episodes.
Because if it weren’t for Dexter and his ways, those people would not have been killed.
The finale was blissfully tidy.
It felt like you answered a lot of questions.
The intent was to tell a complete story.
It’s no secret that the eighth season was very unpopular and dissatisfying to the fans.
I wanted the audience to feel as if we had completed the story.
I guess I was striving for redemption, not in any religious sense.
They’re setting up Harrison as the next evolution of the Morgan family.’
But after seeing that finale, maybe that’s not the plan after all?
I am open to the possibility.
I’ve been with Showtime forever.
I did the first four seasons of Dexter and the last three seasons ofNurse Jackie.
Jack Alcott is a great actor.
He took wrestling lessons.
He took baseball lessons.
He took chopping wood lessons, fighting lessons.
He was a great spirit.
We had to shoot out of order because we had to chase the weather.
We always needed snow.
There’s a scene where he’s in therapy with Dexter.
By the time it was over, Jack was ready to play the end of the series.
We shot that in the first month.
We needed the snow!
He then reaches for her,to no avail.
That was Jennifer’s idea.
We talked about that entire scene for a long time.
When you shoot and kill somebody, what’s the body position?
You don’t want him to look like too much of an angel.
So Michael came up with this cross leg thing and it was perfect.
It was rather sad to say goodbye to Dexter.
How was it for you?
I just watched it this morning.
I was crying again.
It just destroys me.
There’s a lot of me in there.
I wrote it with a pen filled with blood.
It was very emotional for me.
