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Dexter

March 2024

  • An NYPD vehicle.

    Dexter-inspired New York man convicted of killing and dismembering woman

    Cory Martin watched show about serial killer to help plan killing of woman on whom he took out a life insurance policy

November 2021

  • The family way … Shiv (Sarah Snook) and Logan Roy (Brian Cox).

    TV tonight
    TV tonight: Succession’s bloodbath makes the Red Wedding look like a gentle picnic

  • Jennifer Carpenter and Michael C Hall in Dexter: New Blood.

    TV review
    Dexter: New Blood review – a lean, mean return for TV’s top serial killer

October 2021

  • Michael C Hall.

    The G2 interview
    Michael C Hall on death, dogs, depravity and Dexter: ‘It was fantastic to be ethically unbound’

    The serial killer show is back after an eight-year hiatus. Its star discusses psychopathy, nostalgia and his time on Six Feet Under

July 2021

  • This undated publicity image released by Showtime shows Michael C. Hall as Dexter Morgan in a scene from the final season of “Dexter,” airing Sundays at 9 p.m. EST on Showtime. (AP Photo/Showtime, Randy Tepper)

    Dexter: can the killer thriller come back from the brink?

    The ending of the Michael C Hall series was an unmitigated disaster. But, eight years on, the trailer for Dexter: New Blood promises one good new storyline and – at last – no beards

October 2020

  • Michael C Hall as Dexter, back in the bad old days

    Back from the dead: can Dexter finally get the ending it deserved?

    The series about a forensics expert who is also a serial killer started well before falling off a cliff, but now the original showrunner has returned to revive its fortunes

January 2019

  • The Killing; The Wire; Breaking Bad; Game of Thrones; Dexter; Atlanta; Killing Eve; Night Night; Bodyguard

    Streamadelica: the 30 best box sets to watch before you die

    From seminal crime sagas and grim comedies to deep dramas and meta humour, here’s our writers’ guide to the best streamable shows right now

June 2018

  • The Handmaid’s Tale … will you be tuning in for season 10?

    Ten is too many, but what is the perfect length for a TV series?

    Hulu’s chief has suggested that the Handmaid’s Tale could run for a hefty 10 seasons, a figure that already feels excessive. But how long should a show go on for? We crunch the numbers …

May 2018

  • Life lessons... Darren Criss in The Assassination in of Gianni Versace (left) and Ross Lynch in My Friend Dahmer.

    Steve Rose on film
    My Friend Dahmer: is it time to stop glamorising the serial killer?

    The new film about Jeffrey Dahmer may be an unglamorous portrayal of a damaged soul - but it still adds to the legend

December 2017

  • Michael C Hall as Dexter Morgan

    Jump the shark
    When good TV goes bad: how bad twists and incest fantasies put Dexter on death row

    For five seasons, it marshalled its absurdities to deliver a unique, darkly funny show. Then it tangled with the Doomsday trope – and saw its world end

January 2016

  • LAZARUS Michael C. Hall

    The G2 interview
    Michael C Hall on playing Bowie on stage and why death stalks him

    As the lead in David Bowie’s musical Lazarus, Michael C Hall felt the singer’s death like an ‘internal fist clench’. The former Dexter star talks about inhabiting the role Bowie first played in The Man Who Fell to Earth – and his own struggle with cancer

December 2015

  • Without a clue: Ben Whishaw in London Spy.

    London Spy and television’s dodgiest denouements

    After Ben Whishaw and the finale of awesome preposterousness, we look at other contenders for the crown of ultimate small-screen letdown

October 2014

  • Steven Miles

    Teenager obsessed with TV killer Dexter stabbed and dismembered girlfriend

    Steven Miles jailed for 25 years for ‘chilling, blood-curdling’ attack on Elizabeth Thomas, 17, at his Surrey family home

June 2014

  • Michael c Hall

    Michael C Hall: 'I was always playing some fastidious control freak'

  • Cold In July

    Cold in July: Jim Mickle makes a better class of B movie but this isn’t one of them

May 2014

  • Almost Human

    TV and radio blog
    Almost Human: terminated after one series but still worth watching

    Graeme Virtue: What is your favourite one-season wonder? Which shows were overlooked by TV bosses but lapped up by audiences?

February 2014

  • Heroes … it's coming back.

    TV and radio blog
    Heroes is back – what other rubbish shows should they resurrect?

    Stuart Heritage: Following the news that the unloved superhero drama is making a return to our screens, we imagine how some other shows, such as Lost and FlashForward, could be brought back to life

December 2013

  • Fawlty Towers

    Watch television with …
    Jason Hughes's favourite TV

  • Michael C Hall and Daniel Radcliffe in Kill Your Darlings

    Michael C Hall: 'People say, "Oh Dexter, please kill me!"'

September 2013

  • Dexter Morgan and Hannah McKay in the Dexter finale

    TV and radio blog
    Dexter finale: a betrayal of the characters we knew

    Becca Day-Preston: The final season was patchy, but at least the Dexter finale would be worth the wait, right? Wrong: the show fell apart

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