14 DAY TRIAL // The premiere of season 5 of Showtime’s killer series, “Dexter,” starring Michael C. Hall as the blood-spatter analyst who doubles as a serial killer slash vigilante during the night, is drawing near. Shooting for the new season started in April this year, when the Los Angeles Times times also got to sit down with the leading actor for a talk on what fans should expect from the show come September – and the interview is now seeing the light of day.
As fans of the show must already know, the season 4 finale, dubbed one of the most shocking and bloody in the history of television, has left many questions hanging in the air. Producers need to up their game in order to make season 5 work, especially given how high they set the bar with that last episode that saw Dexter coming home to find his wife Rita dead in a bathtub full of her own blood. Hall himself was eager to see how things progress from that point on, he was saying back in April, as per the recently published interview.
“Well, I’m certainly interested in going through the aftermath of the enormous mess that has been made of Dexter’s world at the end of the fourth season. And I think the relationship to the code, to the father, what happened at the end of the fourth season is sort of a revamped version of Dexter’s origin story. But in this case, he has some responsibility for what happened. I don’t know if that’s going to lead to his complete mental collapse – doubt it – or rehabilitation – I doubt that too. But how will he move forward? It’s the question that everybody who watches is probably pretty interested in,” the actor is quoted as saying.
What makes the character Dexter so relatable is the fact that, unlike other types introduced on television, he doesn’t think or act or live his life in black and white, but rather in shades of gray. Dexter’s life is an exaggeration of the life of any person out there, Hall believes, because there is hardly anyone who can say they don’t have their own “dark passenger” or secret to hide. Another thing that makes Dexter such a hit with audiences is that he too is evolving and growing into something he was not at the beginning of the series – in his case, he’s moving towards a certain sense of humanity.
“There is some sort of undeniable development or progression toward humanity, but I think that every step he’s taken on that front has been a pragmatic step, one that he needed to make in order to continue to live a life that allowed him to indulge in his primary compulsion. Yes, I think undeniably Dexter is someone who has taken unique responsibility for his darker impulses, not killing indiscriminately. And does experience what seems to be a genuine connection to at least the children in his world. It has so much to do with the way Dexter frames it. He has to frame that progression and that learning and those different kinds of behaviors within a context that allows him to continue to do what he does without ending up in an insane asylum,” Michael C. Hall says.
For the full interview, please refer here.