Editor's Note: The following contains spoilers for Dexter: Resurrection, Episode 3 ("Backseat Driver")
Summary
Following a two-episode premiere last week on Showtime, Dexter: Resurrection isn’t showing any signs of slowing down. In fact, its third episode premiering Friday on Showtime with Paramount+ pulls the pin on more chaos. With Angel Batista (David Zayas) quietly reopening old wounds and Blessing (Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine) welcoming Dexter into a family dinner straight out of a life the antihero rarely sees, the lines between past and present — or, rather, predator and protector are getting blurrier by the second.
In an interview with Collider to break down Episode 3’s “Backseat Driver,” Mwine teases that things are about to get a whole lot “spicier” after this one, while his co-star, Zayas, always the straight shooter, promises: “Things get more complicated.”
Friday’s episode saw Batista confirming Michael C. Hall’s Dexter Morgan is still very much alive — and, without alerting anyone else just yet, quietly committing to seeing him brought to justice as the Bay Harbour Butcher. Meanwhile, Blessing offers Dexter something disarming: kindness, space, and a home-cooked meal while getting to know his family. But as all things show, that fragile calm is bound to crack, especially as these two characters act as moral poles for Dexter.
Getting down to it, Zayas and Gwine reflect on how their characters represent dueling paths for the serial killer, working with Hall in such emotionally loaded scenes, and why what’s coming next is going to hit hard.
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