Note: Spoilers for Dexter’s Season 6 finale from last year obviously follow. And if you don’t want to know any hints about what’s to come -- not even the carefully worded statements of the cast and crew, in the midst of speaking to the press -- you should tread carefully…
Yep, they’re finally going there. Dexter: Season 6 ended with a moment the entire series had been aiming towards, as Debra caught Dexter in the act of murder.
Speaking about Season 7 today a the TCA (Television Critics Association) press tour, Jennifer Carpenter said that when it came to this plot twist, “I’ve been curious how they would write it and also terrified. “ She laughed that her anxiety was perfect because "That’s where Debra’s supposed to be.”
While Showtime’s president, David Nevins, kept using the term “likely” today, when describing the show ending with Season 8 next year, Michael C. Hall reiterated, “The plan is to do this season and a final eighth season.” Hall added that he felt that when it came to Dexter and Deb, he felt that two more seasons felt right, to tell the story of the two of them "negotiating their relationship in this new landscape.” For Hall, Debra finding out about Dexter is “as fundamentally a game-changing development as we’d had. Dexter’s secret has been his own and it’s not anymore. And it’s been so invigorating to play these scenes. To be preoccupied in ways Dexter’s never been required to be.”
Said executive producer Scott buck, “I think we always knew we’d always eventually tell this story, but since it so dramatically changes the nature of the show we didn’t want to consider it until we were closing in [on the end].”
Buck noted, “After this many yeas we know Deb pretty well. We don’t shy away from the reality [of what she’s facing]. There is no easy solution to this.” Added executive producer Sara Colleton, “A dark and dangerous and treacherous path has opened for Deb.” Could Dexter actually consider killing Deb to keep his secret? Said Buck, “Dexter’s a serial killer. The thought has to have crossed his mind.”
Both Colleton and Carpenter defended Deb’s discovery of Dexter killing happening as a result of her newfound romantic feelings for Dexter. Carpenter remarked, “I thought it worked. The seeds of those feelings were always there in the way that I chose to build the character.”
New recurring cast member Yvonne Strahovski remained fairly coy on her role on the show, saying we’d meet her character, Hannah McKay, in episode three and that “it’s safe to say that Hannah McKay has a dark past that is slowly revealed as the episodes go on. She meets Dexter because she’s helping the Miami police department on a case – a case that’s been around for awhile.”
Having finished up her five-year run on Chuck, Strahovski said joining Dexter so many years into its run was, “A little intimidating. It’s exhilarating. It’s really a privilege to be a part of this show with amazing actors. I’ve seen every single episode now and I continue to be amazed every single time. Now that I get to work with these guys, it’s a beautiful experience and I’m honored to be a part of it.”
Asked if he could possibly conceive of the show continuing past Season 8, Hall replied, “It’s difficult, in the midst of some vague sense that final episode of the 8th [season] would be the last. But we finished the first season and I thought we probably should just stop! ‘What are we going to do now?!’ I’d never say never, but I think the sense is that we’re heading towards a definitive end.”
Hall said he felt Season 7 was, “Informed by what’s come before it more than any [season] we’ve done. There’s a feeling of arrival. That we’ve earned this arrival. It feels as rich as this ever has. “
Dexter received considerable criticism in Season 6 for various reasons. Discussing so many people predicting the twist involving Edward James Olmos’ character, which occurred nine episodes into the season, Buck said it was, “Obviously a bit frustrating,” though he also stressed, “it was never meant to be the great big twist that whole season depended on.” That being said, going forward, “I think if we had a secret like that to be revealed later in the season we’d be a lot more careful with that, sure.”
When one journalist rather bluntly asked if we could expect improved writing in Season 7, Carpenter replied that if she’d been asked that, “Before we shot [Season 7], that might have hurt my feelings. But because I know what we’re doing this year, I’m really excited about showing you what we’ve done.”
Said Hall, “Dexter is never more compelling then when he was in trouble and he’s never been in deeper trouble than he is now.”
Dexter: Season 7 premieres on September 30th.
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