Dexter revival: story details released, Marcos Siega to direct six episodes

Last Updated on August 2, 2021

Director Marcos Siega has earned credits on a ton of TV shows over the last couple decades, including Batwoman, You, The Following, Blindspot, The Vampire Diaries, and True Blood. Siega directed nine episodes of the Showtime series Dexter, contributing to the second, third, and fourth seasons – and now he has signed on to direct several more episodes of the show. Dexter is coming back with a revival season that's set to run for ten episodes, and Siega will be directing six of them.

Siega will also be executive producing the revival with John Goldwyn, Sara Colleton, Bill Carraro, Scott Reynolds, series star Michael C. Hall, and showrunner Clyde Phillips, who also served as showrunner on the first four seasons of Dexter's original eight season run. (Those first eight seasons of Dexter can be purchased at THIS LINK.)

The revival is described as being a "closed-ended" limited series "continuation of the original, eight-season series, which ended in 2013 with Hall's Dexter Morgan going on self-imposed exile as a lumberjack and living a solitary life". Phillips has confirmed that it will not be undoing anything that happened in the seasons he wasn't involved with.

So what's the story? Showtime hasn't given much away, but they have released an official logline: 

Set 10 years after Dexter Morgan went missing in the eye of Hurricane Laura, the revival sees the character now living under an assumed name in a world away from Miami.

Did Dexter keep that lumberjack job for a decade? We'll have to wait and see when the revival makes its premiere on Showtime sometime in the fall of 2021.

Filming on the revival is scheduled to begin early next year.