{"id":648953,"date":"2026-10-08T22:04:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T22:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/648953\/"},"modified":"2026-10-08T22:04:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T22:04:10","slug":"dexter-resurrection-season-2-eric-stonestreet-krysten-ritter-returns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/648953\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Dexter: Resurrection’ Season 2: Eric Stonestreet, Krysten Ritter Returns"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tEric Stonestreet<\/a> is returning to the Dexter<\/a> franchise as fellow serial killer Rapunzel, and Krysten Ritter<\/a>\u2018s resurrection was made a bit clearer during the show\u2019s newsy Thursday panel at New York Comic Con. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI love the surprise of people seeing me in that role. I love the challenge of bringing my game. But I also love that he\u2019s a family guy who seemingly has it all, which is what somebody else might covet and is jealous of in some ways,\u201d Stonestreet said about why he wanted to return to the role of Al Walker, a.k.a. Rapunzel, for season two, which releases on Paramount+ Oct. 30. \u201cI like the duality of that and knowing what an awful, awful person Al is, is really fun to play.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tStonestreet recalled his initial brush with the series, which came before he landed his role on the Emmy-winning comedy he starred in for 11 seasons, Modern Family. \u201cI was a grinding actor going on every audition that I was fortunate enough to get, and Dexter popped up on my fax machine back then,\u201d he said. \u201cI made my way over to Paramount, looked for parking for probably an hour and a half, and then made my way in to see Clyde, and he said, \u2018No, thank you.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cTo put a finer point on it, when you did not get the role in the first season, and had you gotten the role, you would not have been available to audition for Modern Family,\u201d the showrunner noted. Added Stonestreet: \u201cIt worked out good. Thank you, Clyde.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe panel, which was timed to the franchise\u2019s landmark 20th anniversary, featured Michael C. Hall<\/a>, Uma Thurman in her first New York Comic Con appearance, James Remar, Jack Alcott, Bokeem Woodbine and Krysten Ritter, as well as showrunner and executive producer Clyde Phillips and executive producers Scott Reynolds and Marcos Siega.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe second season of Dexter: Resurrection<\/a> sees Hall\u2019s Dexter Morgan \u201ccaught between two killers \u2014 one with decades of notoriety and a lifetime of kills behind him, and the other a fresh young face terrorizing New York in ways no one has ever seen.\u201d Dexter will also battle a new, unexpected enemy \u2014 a mid-life crisis <\/a>\u2014 as Harrison (Alcott) continues his own pursuit of justice as father and son face their darkest chapter yet.<\/p>\n

\n\tAlongside Stonestreet\u2019s return, Ritter is also back in the Dexter universe, but the cast and crew were more careful about not spoiling how. Her character, Lady Vengeance, died last season, but Ritter had teased<\/a> to The Hollywood Reporter that she was keeping her fingers crossed about a resurrection of some sort.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIf you\u2019re a fan of the show and you saw New Blood, we shot and killed Michael at the end of New Blood in the last in season one of Resurrection, Krysten was pronounced dead at the prison, and here they both are,\u201d Phillips teased.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThe chemistry was undeniable, and we all looked at each other when we were shooting when Lady Vengeance died, and we thought, this can\u2019t be the end of this thing,\u201d added Siega. Added Reynolds: \u201cShe has a profound effect upon Dexter.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tKrysten Ritter in Dexter: Resurrection.<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tZach Dilgard\/Paramount+ with SHOWTIME<\/p>\n

\n\tWhile speaking to what\u2019s ahead for the series, Phillips said the franchise\u2019s location shift to New York \u201cjust brings an energy that I don\u2019t think Miami had. Quite frankly, we\u2019re in an environment where we really get to show the city as a character, and you know it\u2019s a place where your Dexter gets to cross paths with a lot of interesting people, and no place better to hunt than in New York City.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tWhen asked about whether the location and focus changes this season will affect if Dexter is still an apex predator, according to Reynolds, \u201cI mean, absolutely, but it\u2019s a different kind of challenge. The core of Dexter, despite how dark he is and the stuff that he does \u2014 he kills people. You guys know that, right? But he\u2019s optimistic at his core in a way that I think really launches into all of us, and why we love Dexter so much,\u201d he shared. \u201cDexter\u2019s thinking, \u2018Can I have a family? Can I have it all?\u2019 Questions that a lot of us will think about, whether it\u2019s our actual family or friends that would make a family. Ultimately at the end of that season, it\u2019s: no, he can\u2019t, literally and figuratively. And yet Dexter\u2019s like, \u2018Maybe I can.\u2019 I think that really helps us just love and feel so much hope toward this character.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tIn terms of where Harrison and Dexter will go this season, \u201cIt\u2019s nice to jump into a relationship, to the father-son relationship, with that little time skip, because we get to sit in a space where there\u2019s familiarity and there\u2019s comfortability. The conflicts and the tension that you\u2019re going to experience with somebody that you don\u2019t know very well, it\u2019s a different set of conflicts. It\u2019s a different color. It\u2019s a new flavor of what you\u2019re going to run up against.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tWhen it comes to Harrison\u2019s love interest in season two, Reynolds shared that, \u201cIt\u2019s really fun too because we placed Harrison between his father, who he very much loves and respects, and the sense of justice that his father has. Then he\u2019s part of the cops, as you\u2019ve probably seen online and he\u2019ll be working possibly with Claudette, who has her own very moral code. So it\u2019s fun to watch him play.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAt another point, while teasing the first episode, Hall noted that \u201csome time passes before we rejoin the show, and we fill in the blanks with a montage of sorts. I got to do a number of scenelets with some really, really amazing people who were playing these unsavory victims. That was fun.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tDuring the panel, the cast also reflected on their introductions to the franchise and why they took on roles in the Paramount+ universe. For Thurman, \u201cI think it\u2019s the best decision I ever made in my life was to be the security guard.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI received this script, and I don\u2019t know. I\u2019m not jaded. I swear. I just \u2014 my heart sinks when I go to crack a script. I\u2019m just like, let\u2019s see \u2014 and I couldn\u2019t put it down. I burned through the whole season,\u201d she continued. \u201cClyde and I had a Zoom that went on for about 90 minutes, and I just completely fell for the whole situation. I was like, you don\u2019t need me. I mean, I\u2019m a security guard.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tMichael C. Hall as Dexter Morgan in Dexter: Resurrection season two.<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMatt Infante\/Paramount+.<\/p>\n

\n\tThurman was also quick to speak up about how the set environment has been one of the better she\u2019s experienced in her career. \u201cI think there\u2019s this incredibly high standard, both of moral character and warmth from the top down,\u201d said Thurman. \u201cPeople are treated with respect on the set from every single department across. It brings out the best in people. It\u2019s not hard, shouldn\u2019t be, but it\u2019s so prevalent in this environment that as a very serious veteran of the show business profession, I will say it is absolutely a gift to get to have this kind of working community.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAdded Ritter: \u201cIt\u2019s a well-oiled machine, and you hear that about productions, but this one really is. I think because everybody\u2019s been together for so long, it works, and you feel that when you get to set. Everybody is bringing their A game, and the way Marcos shoots is really efficient, so you have to be really efficient. It keeps you energized, it keeps you on your toes, and somehow Michael ends up going deeper every take, which makes you so much more engaged every take.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tExplaining how the show is able to pull actors like Stonestreet, Ritter and Thurman, Phillips first pointed to Hall. \u201cIt\u2019s Michael. Everybody wants to work with Michael. He attracts these stars to come be on the show like this. Also, it\u2019s the writers. We have a great writing room, and we work hard to tell [these stories].\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tHe later added how potential stars are pitched on their roles, noting that the writers break the entire season so actors know exactly what they\u2019re getting into. \u201cWe write all 10 scripts so that when the actors get them, they get the book of what the season is going to be, and they know they\u2019re not going to get screwed over in the end,\u201d he said. \u201cThey know what the ending is, and then they can make the decision whether or not they want to be involved, which is why we have such an amazing cast.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tEarlier in the panel, Hall, along with the rest of the cast, reflected on the launch of the franchise, with its long-running star noting, \u201cWe made this pilot just hoping that the first season would get picked up. It seemed like a crazy proposition to invite people to identify with a character like this, but it worked.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Eric Stonestreet is returning to the Dexter franchise as fellow serial killer Rapunzel, and Krysten Ritter\u2018s resurrection was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":648954,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[8265,169294,93,130137,61,60,50150,176342,282],"class_list":["post-648953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-dexter","tag-dexter-resurrection","tag-entertainment","tag-eric-stonestreet","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-krysten-ritter","tag-michael-c-hall","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=648953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648953\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/648954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=648953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=648953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}