DEXTER: ORIGINAL SIN
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Created by Clyde Phillips, ten episodes of "Dexter: Original Sin" aired from 13 December 2024 to 14 February 2025.
Gellar is forensics expert Tanya Martin on 'Dexter: Original Sin'. She told Emily Longarette of Variety: “We’re playing in the 90s. I’m used to playing these formidable women and she’s no exception, but she’s almost an even bigger exception because women didn’t run departments in those jobs. They certainly didn’t run the science departments, and they certainly didn’t do it in Miami. So you realize she’s gotta be pretty tough to be able to hang with the guys.”
Slideshow - Sarah Michelle Gellar in 'Dexter: Original Sin'
Gellar described her characte Tanya to Nick Caruso of TV Line: “Inadvertently, Tanya is the one who teaches Dexter everything that he knows, to continue a trend that I love to do, which is playing these women in men’s worlds. And to have a woman lead a department in the Miami Metro Police Department in the ’90s was so rare.” After saying that the role is different from those she’s played in the past, Gellar continued: “She’s corporate. She is really breaking that glass ceiling that I really haven’t had the chance to mess with. She’ll start to open up a little bit about what that’s like and how hard that really is.”
In 2008, Entertainment Weekly asked Gellar to name ten male TV characters she wished she could play. Dexter Morgan was number 8:
MAIN CAST
- Sarah Michelle Gellar -- Tanya Martin
- Michael C Hall -- Narrator
- Patrick Gibson -- Dexter Morgan
- Christian Slater -- Harry Morgan
- Molly Brown -- Debra Morgan
- Christina Milian -- Detective Maria La Guerta
- James Martinez -- Detective Angel Batista
- Alex Shimizu -- Vince Masuka
- Reno Wilson -- Detective Bobby Watt
- Patrick Dempsey -- Detective Aaron Spencer
- Brittany Allen -- Laura Moser
A Car Named Dexter
Jeff Conway of Forbes asked Gellar: "The term “Dexter” has become synonymous with blood over the years. So, in real life, are you squeamish towards blood yourself? I mean, on this new show, Sarah, you play what they call in the first episode, 'The Boss Lady of Forensics'.” Gellar replied: "I'm a mother, I mean - but wait, you know what's so funny when you said that? I just had a realization that I forgot until this very moment. When I got my first car - okay, when I graduated high school - I don't know why this like literally jumped into my head, do you know what I named my first car? My first car was named Dexter!"
Shawn Morrison of Screenrant reported on the theory that Gellar's character Tanya Martin could herself be a serial killer. "It seems that Original Sin could have a very inventive way of taking Tanya out," writes Morrison. "After Dexter: Original Sin episode 4, everyone is trying to find Jimmy Powell's killer. The detectives of Miami Metro have very few leads, and even their first theory - that Jimmy was killed by the cartel to punish his father, Judge Powell - is starting to look incorrect. One theory suggests that they're looking in the wrong direction, and that they should be looking internally, specifically at Tanya Martin...The theory that Tanya is a serial killer would also fit with what Original Sin has revealed about the investigation into Jimmy's death. The entire case has been quite confusing: Harry (Christian Slater) and other detectives first thought the cartel could be involved in Jimmy's death. The way his body was displayed, however, and the fact that the kidnappers never demanded a ransom, thoroughly confused them. It might be that Tanya specifically targeted Jimmy because of her knowledge of law enforcement. She knew Miami Metro would assume it was the cartel's doing, thus making it even harder for her to be caught."
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DEXTER: ORIGINAL SIN can be streamed on Paramount Plus with Showtime.
