Michael C. Hall Gets Why People Weren’t Happy With Dexter Series Finale

Michael C. Hall has acknowledged that he understands why the Dexter series finale left fans feeling very cold. The show’s last episode is infamous among series finales as being poorly received when Hall’s titular character ended up escaping Miami in the middle of a hurricane and moved to Oregon, where he became a lumberjack.

Eight years later, the killer is returning in Showtime’s Dexter: New Blood which arrives this coming weekend. Speaking with Entertainment Tonight, Hall acknowledged that the finale was “pretty unsatisfying” for many fans.

“I totally get people’s dissatisfaction with the way the show ended ’cause it didn’t really end,” Hall said. “It just left us in this pretty unresolved funny certain place and while I thought that it made sense for the character to find himself in that position and to put himself in this self-imposed exile after all the chaos after the show, I would get why it was pretty unsatisfying… [and] infuriating for fans, they spent all this time and were longing for something that answered some questions or tied some things up or did something that the finale didn’t manage to do.”

He continued, “But if nothing else, it did set the stage for what we’ve been up to for the last several months in this new show, so maybe that’s the silver lining. Just as I knew that the show didn’t sit that well in its finale with viewers, it didn’t sit that well with me and I felt like I owed it to myself to explore it further if it came up. That it made sense and it did and owed it to the character and owed it to the fans for sure.”

The 10-episode new series features Hall reprising his role as the titular killer alongside Julia Jones, Alano Miller, Johnny Sequoyah, Jack Alcott, and Clancy Brown, with Jennifer Carpenter and John Lithgow reprising their roles as Debra Morgan and the Trinity Killer in some capacity. Original series showrunner Clyde Phillips, who steered the show for its first four seasons, is back in that capacity for the revival.

The revival is described as follows:

“Set 10 years after Dexter went missing in the eye of Hurricane Laura, Dexter: New Blood finds him living under an assumed name in the fictional 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 inevitably beckons.”