‘Dexter: Original Sin’ Star Patrick Gibson Breaks Down That Finale: ‘No Character That I Wanted to Kill More’

The actor also tells TheWrap what he’d like to see in a potential season 2 of the Paramount+ series

Patrick Gibson as Dexter Morgan in Dexter: Original Sin episode 8, season 1, streaming on Paramount+ with SHOWTIME, 2024. Photo Credit: Patrick Wymore/Paramount+ with SHOWTIME.
Patrick Gibson as Dexter Morgan in Dexter: Original Sin episode 8, season 1, streaming on Paramount+ with SHOWTIME, 2024. Photo Credit: Patrick Wymore/Paramount+ with SHOWTIME.

Note: The following contains spoilers for the “Dexter: Original Sin” Season 1 finale.

The season finale of “Dexter: Original Sin” is here and yes, the bad guy gets got. But in a way, a new bad guy is also fully formed.

Of course, that depends on whether you consider Dexter a bad guy. Sure, seeing him really settle into his kill ritual and start to become the precise killer we eventually come to know is fun, but murder is absolutely wrong. Then again, so is kidnapping, dismembering and trying to kill your own kid, which Aaron Spencer (Patrick Dempsey) definitely did.

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