Dexter: Resurrection Season 2 Is Officially Getting A 'New Dexter'

Published Oct 15, 2026, 5:30 PM EDT

Throughout the original eight-season run of Showtime’s Dexter, based on the novel series by author Jeff Lindsay, Michael C Hall’s sardonic eponymous serial killer justified his many murders by theoretically only killing people who were even more morally compromised than him. A serial killer of serial killers, Dexter was an antihero reminiscent of You’s Joe Goldberg or Patricia Highsmith’s Tom Ripley, albeit with an added twisted layer of self-serving morality to rationalize his crimes.

While the sequel series Dexter: New Blood seemingly killed off the character, Dexter returned in the aptly titled Dexter: Resurrection in 2025, and the acclaimed revival also brought back his son, Harrison, who was introduced in New Blood. While Harrison works as a directionless hotel bellhop early in Dexter: Resurrection, by the end of season 1, he is pursuing a career in criminology and law enforcement, and on better terms than ever with his father.

Harrison Is Slowly Becoming More Like His Father In Dexter: Resurrection Season 2

Of course, this isn’t necessarily a good thing. As early as the pilot episode of Dexter: Resurrection, Harrison has an opportunity to either let a sexual predator go or kill them, and he opts to murder the hotel guest using effectively the same ideology that Dexter operated on in the original show. As Dexter: Resurrection season 1’s story continues, Harrison hems and haws about the specifics of his father’s legacy, but he very much appoints himself judge, jury, and executioner in this justifiable death.

Of course, the season 1 finale of Dexter: Resurrection inevitably ends with Harrison once again forced to kill by circumstance, this time to save his father from a murderous billionaire, and Dexter’s son proves remarkably adept at rationalizing his actions again. Heading into season 2’s story, Harrison is arguably pivoting to working in law enforcement to do good, but it’s not a coincidence that this mirrors his father’s old life.

Everything that Harrison does to stay on the straight and narrow, such as trying to rebuild some semblance of a relationship with his father and pursuing a career change, also happens to make it easier for him to become Dexter’s successor. While Dexter: Resurrection season 2 could explicitly address this, with Dexter treating Harrison as a twisted protégé, the show could also merely hint at it, and this may be even more disturbing.

Harrison Is One Of The Best Parts Of Dexter's Sequel Shows

Harrison admitting that he wants to follow in his father’s footsteps could be blood chilling, but the ambiguity of his current character arc is a big part of what makes the character so compelling. As much as Dexter struggles with his bloodlust in the original show, viewers meet him as a fully self-defined serial killer, and the prequel Dexter: Original Sin struggled to find a meaningful struggle with this fate in his early years.

In contrast, New Blood and Resurrection have both introduced Harrison as a more sympathetic, emotional, and human foil to Hall’s placid killer. Where Dexter worries about the practicalities of his lies being discovered, Harrison still struggles with the morality of his killings and their human cost. Seeing Harrison act like a version of Dexter’s antihero who could still avoid leaning into his dark side makes Dexter: Resurrection season 2 thrilling, especially when contrasted with Hall’s older protagonist.