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Having just faced off against her most hated enemy yet—Sonic The Hedgehog, natch—Krysten Ritter is now ready to take on the next obvious step in the hierarchy of foes: A charming, narration-prone serial killer who’s apparently too damn popular to die. This is per Deadline, which reports that Ritter has just signed on for a “flashy” guest star role as a potential killer in the upcoming Paramount+ series Dexter: Resurrection. (To be clear, this isn’t the Teen Dexter show, Original Sin, that just wrapped up its first season, but the follow-up to 2022’s New Blood, which falsely promised to kill the character off for good. No, we don’t know why there are suddenly two Dexter shows; someone, presumably, wants them.)
Ritter inadvertently kicked off a little firestorm of speculation today when she broke the news, posting on social media that she was “NYC bound baby.” Given that the second season of Disney+’s Daredevil: Born Again is supposed to start filming this weekend—and that Disney has signaled its interest in bringing back other characters from the long-defunct Netflix Marvel shows—fans jumped to the conclusion that Ritter was quietly signaling a return to the part of dysfunctional, superpowered P.I. Jessica Jones. Ritter’s Instagram Story then very quickly filled up with stories reporting her Dexter casting, in what we can only assume will be the vain hope that people will not ask her about this a billion times while she’s also trying to push her new novel Retreat. (Did you know Krysten Ritter writes novels? Krysten Ritter writes novels.)
Anyway: Ritter will appear on Resurrection as “Mia Lapierre, a renowned sommelier who may be hiding a serial killer secret,” which does, indeed, sound like the kind of person Dexter used to run into roughly once per season, getting increasingly embroiled with them until their guest star contract ran out, often in extremely bloody ways. Besides her battles against the hated hedgehog, Ritter is also fresh off her starring role in another not-entirely-asked-for sequel series to a genre hit, Orphan Black sequel series Echoes. She joins a stacked cast for the Dexter show, which will star a returning Michael C. Hall, plus alums James Remar, David Zayas, and Jack Alcott, as well as newcomers Uma Thurman and Peter Dinklage. Dexter: Resurrection is expected to air some time later this year.
