Dexter’s Prequel Casting Makes The Original Show’s Funniest 7-Year Running Joke Even Better

With a lot of the unique Dexter solid now formally changed for the upcoming sequel present, an ongoing pattern from the mother or father program has turn into much more amusing – to the purpose of it being nearly nonsensical. The solid of Dexter: Authentic Sin are primarily taking part in youthful variations of established franchise characters, 15 years earlier than the occasions of the unique present. The Dexter prequel will cowl the sooner years of the property’s titular serial killer, initially performed by Michael C Corridor – who additionally returned to reprise the function as a part of the Dexter: New Blood solid.

Filming has began for Dexter: Authentic Sin, and at current, Michael C Corridor is not slated to look within the present. Given the gulf in time between the prequel present and the unique, paired with the truth that Corridor is much too previous to be taking part in a college-aged pupil, it makes excellent sense that the character has been recast. That being stated, Dexter‘s unique run did not appear to assume Corridor’s age was a problem in moments when it actually ought to have been thought-about one.

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Dexter’s Prequel Present Makes Michael C. Corridor’s “Younger Dexter” Flashback Scenes Even Funnier

Corridor’s wig was unintentionally hilarious

The title character in Dexter: Authentic Sin might be performed by Patrick Gibson. Regardless of being nearly 30 years previous, the actor seems the age of a faculty pupil. This aligns with the prequel present’s timeline in relation to the unique story. Nonetheless, the Dexter producers by no means put almost as a lot thought into this side of the principle character’s look throughout the unique present’s flashback sequences. Throughout these scenes, Dexter was roughly the identical age because the character might be in Dexter: Authentic Sin.

The problem is that all they did was put Michael C Corridor in a wig and count on viewers to purchase into the phantasm. Whereas this was objectively hilarious, it was made even funnier by the actual fact the sequences weren’t performed for laughs. With Patrick Gibson moving into the function of Younger Dexter, these unique flashback sequences make even much less sense than they as soon as did. Now, within the Dexter universe, there’s the canonical subject of Younger Dexter trying suitably college-aged when performed by Gibson, whereas concurrently additionally trying like a person in his mid-thirties who’s masquerading poorly as his youthful self.

Dexter Nonetheless Has A Nice Rationalization For Why The Authentic Present’s Flashbacks Are Completely different From The Prequel

Dexter’s reminiscence is flawed within the unique present

Surprisingly, the continuity conflict of Corridor and Gibson each taking part in Dexter at an identical age does not essentially derail the story’s logic. Dexter’s flashbacks are proven from his perspective as a grown man. So, when he is casting his thoughts again, it could possibly be argued that he is seeing himself as he seems within the current day, as that is the model he is aware of finest. Dexter: Authentic Sin will not be informed through flashback, however relatively as a “dwell” look-in to the character’s day-to-day life, and making them the “actual” model of occasions. This rationalization helps the Dexter flashbacks sit properly alongside the upcoming prequel.

Dexter

Primarily based on the character created by creator Jeff Lindsay, Showtime’s Dexter follows Miami Metro Police Division’s most expert blood spatter analyst, Dexter Morgan, as he makes an attempt to fulfill his Darkish Passenger’s have to kill by looking down criminals who’ve escaped justice. Nonetheless, utilizing the principles his adoptive father taught him to stay undiscovered, Dexter should stroll the effective line of seemingly mixing into society whereas constantly feeding his darkish urges. Dexter faces a number of serial killers as his facade slowly crumbles round him; with each drawback solved by his Darkish Passenger, one other one arises for his suburban fatherly life. When Dexter takes issues personally or feels that the regulation is failing, he takes issues into his personal palms and even compromises the investigations of his co-workers. Dexter aired on Showtime for eight seasons earlier than receiving a mini-sequel collection known as Dexter: New Blood, which picked up ten years after the present’s occasions. You should buy every season for simply $9.99 for Prime Day. 

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David Zayas , Michael C. Corridor , Lauren Velez , C. S. Lee , James Remar , Jennifer Carpenter , Desmond Harrington , Julie Benz

Launch Date

October 31, 2010

Seasons

8