WARNING! This article contains SPOILERS for Dexter: Resurrection season 1, episode 5!A crucial flashback scene in Dexter: Resurrection episode 5 reveals the sequel is abandoning an iconic tradition from the original series. Flashbacks have always played a key role in Dexter’s story, whether it be memories of Harry teaching young Dexter the Code, memories of his early kills, or traumatic memories of his family. Often, they’d focus on Dexter’s titular character as a toddler, child, teenager, and 20-year-old.
So far, Dexter: Resurrection has included flashbacks to both his young childhood and adolescence. For instance, Resurrection episode 5 sees Dexter recall how Deb stopped him from killing a sexual predator at a party, with the corresponding “flashback” scene pulling footage directly from Dexter: Original Sin. By using Patrick Gibson’s Dexter Morgan, Resurrection now abandons a classic Michael C. Hall Dexter flashback trick.
Dexter: Resurrection Uses Original Sin Scenes For Flashbacks Instead Of Michael C. Hall In A Wig
Resurrection Doesn’t Need To Use Michael C. Hall To Play 20-Year-Old Dexter Anymore
Back in the first Dexter TV show, the creative team had a hilarious strategy for its flashbacks to Dexter as a 20-year-old. Rather than cast a 20-year-old actor who looked like Michael C. Hall, as it did with even younger versions of the character, the original series would simply put Michael C. Hall in a wig and make him act 20 years younger.
The idea that Dexter took care of his young adult flashbacks by slapping a floppy-haired wig ended up becoming somewhat of a running gag for the original series. As such, the question remained of whether Dexter: Resurrection would continue that comical tradition with its new flashbacks.
However, Resurrection episode 5 using scenes from Dexter: Original Sin season 1 in lieu of new flashbacks for that point in his life answers that question. Since Dexter: Original Sin season 2 is already on the way, and Resurrection is also intended as a multiseason series, it can be expected that more footage of Patrick Gibson will be used whenever Michael C. Hall’s Dexter refers to events from Original Sin’s timeline.
Dexter: Resurrection Could Still Occasionally Use The Iconic OG Flashback Strategy
Hall Could Still Appear In Flashbacks To More Recent Points In Dexter’s Life
There is still a way for Dexter: Resurrection to pay homage to the original show’s Michael C. Hall flashbacks, however. While Patrick Gibson’s Original Sin scenes serve as flashbacks to Dexter’s early serial killing days, Hall could still don a different wig and wardrobe for flashbacks that are closer to Dexter season 1’s timeline. That strategy was even used more recently for Dexter: New Blood’s clown flashback sequence.
Additionally, Resurrection could use Michael C. Hall for flashbacks to the missing 10-year period between Dexter’s original series finale and New Blood’s premiere. We know very little about Dexter’s life during that time, and flashbacks with Hall would be a great way to explore this absent era from the Dexter franchise’s coverage. Especially as Dexter attempts to bond with Harrison more in Dexter: Resurrection, flashbacks to that decade could help further contextualize his story.
Dexter: Resurrection
9/10
- Release Date
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July 13, 2025
- Network
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Paramount+ with Showtime
- Directors
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Marcos Siega
- Writers
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Scott Buck