"Dexter: New Blood" wants to offer a real and better ending to the series

• Almost 10 years after the original series, Dexter is back for a ninth season, a revival subtitled

  New Blood

  and broadcast from Thursday on Canal +

• For his interpreter Michael C. Hall, he had to wait for the right moment and the right story in

  Dexter

  to return ... and thus offer him a better ending?

• The series explores Dexter's new life and the complex relationship with his son

Can the series no longer die in peace?

From

to

,

or recently

, many old-fashioned television hits have made a comeback, with the original cast and creators.

There is even talk of a sequel to

, yes, the best end of the series ever.

On the other side of the spectrum, but still with Michael C. Hall, however, there is the end of

.

Eight after its broadcast, fans have still not recovered from their ridiculous farewells to their favorite serial killer, who became a lumberjack in the far north and out of sight.

Its interpreter has since been regularly questioned about a possible return… and a better ending?

"I understand the confusion and frustration of fans with the end of the series," said Michael C. Hall.

Because this was not a real conclusion, too many questions remained unanswered.

I disappointed myself.

I like the idea that he is self-imposed exile, but the execution might not have been the best.

But if the ending had been perfect, I wouldn't be here.

“Because

is back for a ninth season, subtitled

and broadcast from Thursday on Canal +.

"Give the series a meaningful ending"

Michael C. Hall admits it.

exists “in large part to give the show, the character and the audience and us creators a sense of satisfaction, an ending that makes sense. Even if it's not necessarily the end. "Shhh. No spoilers. Well, not too much. The spectators thus find Dexter Morgan no longer on the west coast but on the east coast, in the small snowy town of Iron Lake, where he took the pseudonym of Jim Lindsay and leads a quiet life between his job at the store. of the area and his relationship with the head of the local police (oh yes anyway).

“He dedicates himself to a life of abstinence so to speak,” says his interpreter. He isolated himself, implemented new rituals, and found some form of inner peace, even with his late sister Debra. »Who plays here the role of his good conscience. "But, of course, he'll dive back in and give in to his black Passenger. The reason the serial killer returns to the act is not the most original, and it is surely not why Michael C. Hall has agreed to reprise his most famous role. "I felt that we finally had a story that deserved to be told," he explains, he who has hesitated for a long time and several times before putting the cover back to echo the mythical credits of the series. Time had to pass, almost ten years old, for the child Harrison to grow into a young man. "

His father's son

Harrison is the son that Dexter had with Rita and who bathed in the blood of his mother killed by the Trinity Killer at the end of season 4. The scene echoed Dexter's own trauma and signed the apotheosis of the series.

marks their reunion, and questions whether Harrison has a Black Passenger like his father.

There is also a big villain, murders in plastic, the essentials of the series, but this

defies expectations a little, takes its time to set up its atmosphere and tell its story.

Like its new decor, the city of Iron Lake, which the spectator appreciates finding from one episode to another.

"When I brought Dexter back to life, he came back immediately"

But the real pleasure is to find Michael C. Hall always perfect in Dexter.

“Even if everything is different in terms of context, place, weather, people, the character is still very familiar to me, analyzes the actor.

I spent eight years with him, eight more pushing him away, and when I brought him back to life, he returned immediately.

He explores new things, wonders if he is really the hero of his own story as he always believed.

»Dexter is back, and confirms, despite past disappointments, the fashion of

, the competition (hello

), that he is a unique serial character.

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