Dexter: Unique Sin has been renewed for a second season at Paramount+ with Showtime. A Season 2 author’s room is ready to start shortly, with manufacturing dates to be revealed quickly.
From showrunner and government producer Clyde Phillips, Dexter: Unique Sin is the primary prequel sequence within the increasing franchise following serial killer Dexter Morgan. Michael C. Corridor, who portrayed the titular antihero within the mothership sequence, is the prequel’s narrator. Patrick Gibson performs Dexter in his late teenagers when he was a child slayer in coaching, 15 years earlier than the occasions of the unique Dexter sequence.
The ten-episode unique drama sequence is ready in 1991 Miami and follows Dexter (Patrick Gibson), a scholar refining his killer expertise with the assistance and help of his adoptive father Harry (Christian Slater). In his dad, he finds solace and understanding, particularly as his bloodthirsty urges develop and may now not be ignored.
As his solely confidant, Harry teaches Dexter a code that’s designed to assist him discover and kill individuals who should die — all whereas avoiding getting caught by legislation enforcement. This can be a specific problem for younger Dexter as he begins a forensics internship on the Miami Metro Police Division.
Season 1 additionally stars Molly Brown, Christina Milian, James Martinez, Alex Shimizu, Reno Wilson, with particular visitor stars Sarah Michelle Gellar and Patrick Dempsey.
Dexter: Unique Sin premiered on December 13 with 2.1M world viewers throughout Paramount+ and Showtime within the first three days of availability, in keeping with Deadline’s Katie Campione in a Dec. 19 rankings story, noting additionally that Paramount+ touted the episode as Showtime‘s most-streamed sequence in 10 years. By the point of the present’s finale on Valentine’s Day, the finale viewers grew 27% over the December premiere with a tally of two.68M world viewers on Paramount+ with Showtime, Campione famous on Feb. 20. It was the most-streamed episode of the season, up 30% from the premiere’s streaming viewers.
Phillips, who was showrunner on the primary 4 seasons of Dexter, is presently in manufacturing on Dexter: Resurrection, a continuation of the restricted sequence Dexter: New Blood, set to premiere this summer time. The Dexter-verse is now one step nearer to including a second prequel spinoff to the franchise, the long-spoken-about Trinity Killer restricted sequence with John Lithgow, who initially performed the madman, probably returning to relate.
Dexter: Unique Sin is government produced by Phillips, who additionally served as showrunner for the debut season, and produced by Showtime Studios and Counterpart Studios. Government producers for the primary season additionally included Scott Reynolds, Michael C. Corridor, Mary Leah Sutton, Tony Hernandez and Lilly Burns, with the sequence produced by Robert Lloyd Lewis. Michael Lehmann served as directing government producer.
