Where will the series pick up?
Still staggering from the killer conclusion of Dexter season 4? If you HAVE NOT caught up on the Showtime series, DO NOT read on.
EW spoke with exec producer Sara Colleton about what’s to come in season 5 and it appears they’re going to pick up right where 4 left off: With the death of Dexter Morgan’s wife, Rita.
“We have spent the last month sitting around, talking and really debating how best to deal with the aftermath of [Rita’s death],” Colleton says. “We uniformly decided that we donât want to jump ahead. We need to see Dexter go through the process that weâd all have to go through if such a horrible thing had happened to us. We need to see him doing everything from the big emotional things like grieving the loss, to the mundane things like arranging a funeral, getting the kids dressed, and all the other things that are usually done for men because their wives or mothers do them. They have no idea how to handle all of these things. As we saw, Rita was really the caretaker of their baby. It would be cheating the audience of their catharsis to not see Dexter go through that mourning period and see how it affects him or to not see him dealing with the blowback of what he essentially caused. So we will not jump to Harrison as a 5 year old yet.”
The producer suggests there may not be another killer for Dexter to contend with either. A relief to some viewers who were growing tired of the Dexter meets a killer, Dexter gets his man formula. Check out what else she had to say right here!
Source: EW
