Dexter season 7 explained

Season Number:	7
Bgcolour:	D4D1BD
Starring:	Michael C. Hall Jennifer Carpenter Desmond Harrington C. S. Lee Lauren Vélez David Zayas James Remar
Num Episodes:	12
Network:	Showtime
Episode List:	List of Dexter episodes

The seventh season of Dexter premiered on September 30, 2012. The season follows Dexter's tangles with a Ukrainian mob boss and introduces the character Hannah McKay, a mysterious widow with a green thumb and a checkered past. The season seven story arc is continued over the course of the eighth season, which premiered on June 30, 2013.

Development

On November 21, 2011, Showtime renewed Dexter for both a seventh and eighth seasons, each consisting of 12 episodes.^[1] Showtime officially announced that the seventh season would premiere Sunday, September 30, 2012.^[2] ^[3] These two seasons feature a story arc spanning across both seasons.^[4] ^[5] The premiere episode of Season 7 featured a flashback to Debra and Dexter's childhood.^[6] On April 24, it was confirmed that Ray Stevenson would guest star in the upcoming Season 7, and he would play the head of a Ukrainian crime syndicate who arrives in Miami determined to find out who killed one of his associates. Jason Gedrick appears in a multi-episode arc playing the manager of a Miami-area gentlemen’s club that is linked to a high-profile murder case. Yvonne Strahovski, known for starring in the NBC television series Chuck, joined Dexter as Hannah McKay, a woman with a checkered past who arrives to help Miami Metro Homicide reopen an old murder case out of mutual benefit, and becomes Dexter's new love interest.^[7]

Cast

Main

Special guest

Yvonne Strahovski as Hannah McKay
Ray Stevenson as Isaak Sirko

Recurring

- Aimee Garcia as Jamie Batista Jason Gedrick as George Novikov
Dana L. Wilson as Angie Miller
Andrew Kirsanov as Jurg Yeliashkevych
- Katia Winter as Nadia Francisco Viana as Jake Simms
Geoff Pierson as Tom Matthews
Josh Cooke as Louis Greene
Santiago Cabrera as Sal Price
Matt Gerald as Ray Speltzer
Nicole LaLiberte as Arlene Schram
Brett Rickaby as Phil Bosso
Nestor Serrano as Hector Estrada
Billy Brown as Mike Anderson

Guest

Preston Bailey as Cody Bennett
- Christina Robinson as Astor Bennett Enver Gjokaj as Viktor Baskov
Daniel Buran as Wayne Randall
Beth Grant as Donna Randall
Karl Herlinger as Oleg Mickic
Sherman Augustus as Benjamin Caffrey
Jim Beaver as Clint McKay
Erik King as James Doakes

Episodes

Notes and References

Web site: Dexter Renewed For 7th & 8th Seasons By Showtime. https://web.archive.org/web/20111120174656/http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2011/11/18/dexter-renewed-for-7th-8th-seasons-by-showtime/111173/. dead. November 20, 2011. TV by the Numbers. Gorman. Bill. November 18, 2011. November 19, 2011.
Web site: Showtime sets Dexter and Homeland Return Date . March 12, 2012. Nededog. Jethro. The Hollywood Reporter. March 12, 2012.
Web site: Dexter 7th Season premiere date. EW.com.
Web site: Dexter Finale Story Arc Begins This Year; Series to End with Season 8 . Screen Rant . December 2, 2011 . June 16, 2012 . March 3, 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160303190833/http://screenrant.com/dexter-series-finale-season-8-benk-142024/ . dead .
Web site: Dexter Season 7 Details Revealed . Screen Rant . December 20, 2011 . June 16, 2012 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120701010432/http://screenrant.com/dexter-season-7-spoilers-deb-aco-144333/all/1/ . July 1, 2012 .
Web site: Spoiler Chat Daily: Scoop on the House Shocker! Plus, Fringe, Once Upon a Time and More!. E! Online. Dos Santos. Kristin. April 24, 2012. April 25, 2012. dead. https://archive.today/20120708041457/http://au.eonline.com/news/watch_with_kristin/spoiler_chat_daily_scoop_on_house/311000. July 8, 2012.
Web site: Dexter: Yvonne Strahovski on Her New Character's Dark Past. Goldman. Eric. August 10, 2012. IGN. October 4, 2012.