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Jack Alcott is finally feeling the love.
After receiving so much hate from Dexter fans for his arc playing Harrison Morgan on the 2021 revival series Dexter: New Blood, the actor is winning viewers over with Dexter: Resurrection.
During a visit to Entertainment Weekly‘s Comic-Con video studio Friday, Alcott’s costars Michael C. Hall, James Remar, David Zayas, David Dastmalchian, and Krysten Ritter recall that he got a standing ovation during a recent series premiere screening event for the scene in which Harrison kills a rapist.
Alcott says the moment felt “fantastic” after his character was frequently maligned by fans.
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“Particularly after the events of the last season, it was nice to feel the tide shift in that direction,” Alcott says. “Because I think I had less fans before that, and then after that, everyone liked that.”
Harrison was born in season 4 of the original run of Dexter, and was depicted as a baby and toddler throughout the rest of the series. When he returned in New Blood, Harrison was a brooding teenager (played by Alcott) angry at his father (Hall) for abandoning him as a child. By the end of New Blood, Dexter told his son to shoot him in the chest, and Harrison fled believing that he killed his father.
In the premiere of Dexter: Resurrection, Harrison is haunted by the memory of seemingly killing his father, especially when he becomes a killer himself. But Alcott tells EW that Harrison is not a sociopath like Dexter.
“I think he certainly feels empathy,” Alcott explains. “He cares very deeply about what he believes is right and what he believes is wrong. But I don’t think Harrison knows much more than that, because he has a very strong reaction to what he thinks is wrong. There’s a lot of questions… He’s a mess.”
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Dexter: Resurrection also introduces a slew of new killers in this week’s episode, played by Dastmalchian, Ritter, Neil Patrick Harris, Eric Stonestreet, and Uma Thurman, all employed in a secret society by an eccentric billionaire obsessed with serial killers (Peter Dinklage).
“You’ve never seen anything like it,” Dastmalchian teases. “It immediately felt like I was on the set of Clue by way of American Psycho.”
Dexter: Resurrection releases new episodes on Fridays on Paramount+.
Check out more of EW’s coverage from San Diego Comic-Con 2025.
