Dexter is coming back with a great line up for Season 2. Remember the show about the forensics analyst that serial kills other serial killers? Well, it will be here this September and actor Keith Carradine joins the cast. The cast and crew were at a TV Critics Association panel and spoke of the new season.

Season 1 ended on the cliffhanger with star Michael C. Hall’s character Dexter almost discovered by fellow cops and his girlfriend. Hall says, “When we meet Dexter on season two, he’s reeling from that; any footing he’s able to establish for himself is pretty much immediately pulled out from under him. He encounters a person he never anticipated encountering, someone who he sees him for who he is, accepts him as such and he really has no choice but to do him in. He does maintain his claim that he’s without the capacity for authentic human emotion.”

So is Dexter really without human emotion? ” I think he is [human]. I think a lot of his journey will be negotiating his growing awareness that his compulsion remains and how to reconcile those things. What’s fun about playing him is his work life, his relationships. It’s only when those things start to crumble that he responds in a way that elicits what is evidence of a real emotional connection,” adds Hall.

So what can fans expect from the new season? “All the images you saw on Dexter of knives going in or a throat getting cut, the violence is a lot more powerful. This is a guy you plug into and you relate; he’s doing what society does – execute killers. Now, he’s in it for his own inner reasons; that actually makes the violence feel a lot more present,” says Writer Daniel Cerone.

Season 2 begins September 30th on Showtime.

Molly Celaschi