In the last few years, few shows have experienced a resurgence at the same level as Dexter, which blew up on Netflix a few years ago, prompting the greenlighting of several new spin-offs. After Dexter: New Blood was cancelled after only one season, the franchise officially returned in 2024 for the prequel series, Dexter: Original Sin, starring Patrick Gibson as a young Dexter Morgan — Gibson also starred as James Bond earlier this year in 007 First Light. Paramount originally picked up the show for Season 2 before later going back on its word and deciding that it would not return for a second season; a decision that didn’t sit well with passionate Dexter fans. There are still other Dexter projects in the works to be excited about, though, even if Original Sin isn’t moving forward with another season.
The only Dexter show still left standing after various cancellations in the last few years is Dexter: Resurrection, which is coincidentally also the only Dexter show to see Michael C. Hall return to the role in live-action. The first season of Dexter: Resurrection dropped in the first half of last year, and while it took Paramount some time to deliberate, the show was ultimately renewed for Season 2. Before Dexter: Resurrection returns next month for Season 2 on October 30, EW recently released a new batch of images from the next season, showing the first look at welcoming star Dan Stevens. This is the ultimate Dexter x RoboCop crossover, as Stevens has been tapped to play Alex Murphy in Prime Video’s RoboCop reboot series that’s now in the early stages of development. Gabriel Luna from The Last of Us will also star in Season 2.
Collider Exclusive · Sci-Fi Personality Quiz Which Sci-Fi Hero Are You Most Like? Paul Atreides · Captain Kirk · Princess Leia · Ellen Ripley · Max Rockatansky
Five iconic heroes. Five completely different ways of facing an impossible universe. One of them shares your instincts, your values, and your particular way of refusing to back down. Eight questions will tell you which one.
🏜️Paul Atreides
🖖Capt. Kirk
✊Princess Leia
🔦Ellen Ripley
🔥Max Rockatansky
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How do you lead when the stakes couldn’t be higher? The way you lead under pressure is the most honest thing about you.
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What is your greatest strength in a crisis? The quality that keeps you alive when everything else fails.
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What is the thing you’d sacrifice everything else for? Your deepest motivation is your truest compass.
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How do you relate to the people around you? Who you are to others under pressure is who you really are.
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You’re facing a threat that no one else believes is real. What do you do? How you respond when you’re the only one who sees it defines everything.
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What has your heroism cost you personally? Every hero pays. The question is what — and whether they’d pay it again.
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How do you feel about the rules of the world you’re in? Every hero has a relationship with the system. What’s yours?
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When everything is on the line, what keeps you going? The answer is the most honest thing about you.
Your Hero Has Been Identified Your Sci-Fi Hero Is…
Your answers point to the iconic sci-fi hero who shares your instincts, your values, and your particular way of facing the impossible.
Arrakis · Dune
Paul Atreides
You carry a weight most people would crumble under — the knowledge of what you’re capable of, and the burden of what you might have to become.
You see further ahead than others and you plan accordingly, even when the vision frightens you.
You are driven by loyalty to your people and a sense of destiny you didn’t ask for but can’t escape.
Paul Atreides is not simply a hero — he is someone who understands the cost of power and chooses to bear it anyway.
That gravity, that willingness to carry what others won’t, is exactly you.
USS Enterprise · Star Trek
Captain Kirk
You lead with instinct, warmth, and an absolute refusal to accept a no-win scenario — because you’ve always believed there’s a third option nobody else has thought of yet.
You take the mission seriously without ever taking yourself too seriously.
Your crew would follow you anywhere, not because you demand it, but because you’ve earned it.
Kirk’s genius isn’t tactical — it’s human. He reads people, bends rules with purpose, and wills outcomes into existence through sheer conviction.
That combination of warmth, audacity, and relentless optimism is unmistakably yours.
The Rebellion · Star Wars
Princess Leia
You are the kind of person who holds the line when everyone else is losing faith — not because you’re fearless, but because giving up simply isn’t something you’re capable of.
You lead through conviction. Your voice carries because your belief is unshakeable.
You gave up everything ordinary the moment you chose the cause, and you’ve never looked back.
Leia is not a supporting character in her own story — she is the moral centre of the entire rebellion.
That same fierce, principled, unbreakable core is what defines you.
The Nostromo · Alien
Ellen Ripley
You are not reckless, not grandiose, and not particularly interested in being anyone’s hero — you just refuse to stop when it matters.
You see threats clearly, you document the truth even when no one listens, and when the time comes you handle it yourself.
Ripley’s heroism is earned, not performed. She doesn’t have a speech — she has a flamethrower and a plan.
You share her composure under the worst possible pressure, and her refusal to pretend the monster isn’t there.
When it counts, you don’t flinch. That’s everything.
The Wasteland · Mad Max
Max Rockatansky
You have been through fire that would break most people — and what came out the other side is something the world underestimates at its peril.
You don’t ask for help, don’t need validation, and don’t wait for anyone to tell you the rules no longer apply.
Your loyalty, when it finally arrives, is absolute — but it’s earned in silence and tested in action, not in words.
Max is not a nihilist. He is someone who lost everything and found, against his will, that he still has something worth protecting.
That bruised, stubborn, ultimately human core is exactly yours.
What Is ‘Dexter: Resurrection’ About?
Paramount’s official synopsis for Dexter: Resurrection, which holds strong scores of 95% from critics and 90% from audiences on Rotten Tomatoes, reads as follows: “Weeks after taking a bullet to the chest from his own son, Dexter Morgan awakens from a coma to find Harrison gone. Realizing the weight of what he put his son through, Dexter sets out for New York City, determined to find him and make things right. But when Miami Metro’s Angel Batista arrives with questions, Dexter realizes his past is catching up to him fast. As father and son navigate their own darkness, they soon find themselves deeper than ever imagined.” The show is a direct continuation of Dexter: New Blood. There was also going to be another Dexter spin-off centered around a young version of John Lithgow’s Trinity Killer, but it, too, has been scrapped.
Check out the first season of Dexter: Resurrection on Paramount Plus and stay tuned to Collider for more updates and coverage of Season 2.
