Michael C. Hall acknowledges the 'Dexter' series finale was 'mystifying' and 'infuriating'

Most Dexter fans were left extremely disappointed in the September 2013 series finale, wrapping up eight beloved seasons on Showtime with serial-killing Miami forensics expert Dexter Morgan (Michael C. Hall) fleeing to live as an exiled lumberjack after his sister Deb's (Jennifer Carpenter) death.

Hall conceded that it was not the most satisfying way to bow out.

"I think the show ended in a way that was pretty mystifying at best, if not infuriating, for people," the 50-year-old said during this interview with Phil Williams on Times Radio on Wednesday (June 23), noting that reprising the role has felt "gratifying" after all these years have passed. "But that did at least set the stage for us to return and answer more definitively what the hell happened to this guy."

It was announced last October that Showtime had ordered a 10-episode limited series revival of Dexter with Hall as well as original showrunner Clyde Phillips returning.

"We've been filming since early February," Hall told Williams. "I'm still here in Concord, Massachusetts, which is where I'm living while we film in this area, and we have about five weeks to go. I think the whole shoot will have taken five months. It's basically—we're filming it as if it's a 10-hour movie."

The seven-time Emmy nominee added: "We don't pick up the day after we left him at the end of the series proper. We pick him up as if as much time has passed for him as has passed for the rest of us."

Hall also let slip that the limited series is expected to debut Nov. 7.

An official teaser arrived in late May and revealed that Dexter is no longer going by Dexter Morgan. He is Jim Lindsay, but he seemingly hasn't shaken his affinity for violence, as we see him stop to peer into a storefront window displaying knives: