Dexter Morgan never expected to grow old.
In Season 2 of Dexter: Resurrection on Paramount+, Michael C. Hall’s Dexter is adrift, and Uma Thurman’s Charley is back in his orbit after the events of Season 1. Hall and Thurman exclusively spoke with BLKCinema.com during our chats with the entire cast about Dexter’s midlife crisis, what draws Charley back to him and whether their partnership could become something more.
Michael C. Hall on Dexter’s midlife crisis
Hall said that after the chaos of Season 1, Dexter is facing a life he never planned for.
“He thought he was dead. We thought he was dead. He came back to life, and the flurry of that led us through the first season. Now that’s all kind of ended, and he’s like, wait a minute. I never imagined myself here. I never imagined myself living this long,” Hall said. “He’s living in a basement apartment, still driving a rideshare car, his son doesn’t need him in the same way, and I think he feels a little at a loss about what he’s about and where he’s headed.”
“The real manifestation of his midlife crisis, I think, is this acute desire to be known and recognized and appreciated,” he continued. “That’s a part of what makes him susceptible to the relationship that Charley represents to him in those first episodes.”
Why Charley is drawn back to Dexter
Thurman said Charley returns carrying a deep internal conflict.
“She sort of slightly hints at it. She justified everything, as if doing bad for a good reason was a level for her. And when her motive is shattered by the morality of her mother, she’s left feeling that she miscalculated and violated her own soul,” Thurman said. “So she actually has inside of her a giant conflict, and is seeking a path to redeem herself. It’s like you need to throw the knife, but where’s it going to land? She needs to do something to reckon with herself. She’s coming in with an interior loaded gun in her head.”
Are Dexter and Charley more than partners?
Episode 2 ends with the two floating the idea of posing as a couple. Thurman wouldn’t rule out something real.
“Michael said this before, but I think they have a tremendous amount in common. There are parts of each other that they see and understand, and there are parts of each other that they don’t see and don’t yet understand. And like all relationships, isn’t that where the fun starts?” Thurman said. “And what’s more intimate, really, than collaborating to kill other people?”
Season 2 is currently airing on Paramount+.
Featured image photo credit: Paramount+
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