Although Sarah Michelle Gellar’s 2023 TV show didn’t last long, the upcoming Dexter prequel Original Sin can make up for Wolf Pack’s swift cancelation with a similar role for the ‘90s icon. Dexter began airing in 2006 and concluded in 2013, although the series was briefly revived as the short-lived continuation Dexter: New Blood. Centering on the vigilante serial killer Dexter Morgan, the original show was a blackly comic adaptation of the novels of the same name by Jeff Lindsay. Now, the upcoming prequel series Dexter: Original Sin is set to explore the antihero’s early years.

Dexter: Original Sin will center on Dexter’s years as the protégé of Detective Harry Morgan. Played by James Remar in the original series, Harry was the calculating adoptive father who recognized Dexter’s lethal sociopathy early in life and channeled it toward vigilante violence. Dexter: Original Sin will add ‘90s legend Christian Slater to Dexter’s cast of characters as a younger version of Harry, but this is not the only icon from the decade that the prequel series has cast. Dexter: Original Sin will also feature Buffy The Vampire Slayer’s Sarah Michelle Gellar in a pivotal supporting role.

Sarah Michelle Gellar’s Dexter Prequel Role Is A Bounce-Back From The Wolf Pack’s Cancelation

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Sarah Michelle Gellar will play Dexter’s boss, the chief of Crime Scene Investigation, in Dexter: Original Sin, and this part could be the star’s best TV role in a while. As Dexter’s boss during his time as an intern in the Crime Scene Investigation department, Gellar’s character is likely to be the first person to uncover his dark secret. Whether Dexter can hide his true self from her or not is sure to cause all manner of tension, and Gellar is ideal for the role of a veteran who can’t be fooled by the character’s slick, sociopathic lies.

Furthermore, Gellar’s role will be great news for anyone who was holding out hope for the arrival of Wolf Pack season 2. The actor played a supporting role in 2023’s promising supernatural teen drama, which followed a pair of teens who encounter a werewolf during a wildfire. Gellar was the arson specialist who tried to get to the bottom of the blaze, inching closer to discovering a world of paranormal weirdness in the process. Although Wolf Pack was relatively well received among viewers, the series wasn’t a critical hit, and it was canceled in early 2024.

Sarah Michelle Gellar’s Dexter Prequel & Wolf Pack Roles Are Similar

The Buffy the Vampire Slayer Star Plays A Law Enforcement Officer In Both Shows

Wolf Pack and Dexter: Original Sin both provide Gellar with similar roles, and both parts owe at least some of their inspiration to her most famous character. As Buffy The Vampire Slayer‘s heroine, Gellar played a paranormal investigator who rooted out evil in her seemingly sweet small town of Sunnydale. Wolf Pack’s Sarah Michelle Gellar role had an obvious connection since her character was once again looking into supernatural threats, but Dexter: Original Sin also has some interesting parallels to explore. In Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Buffy often hid her battles against evil from adult authorities who didn’t understand them.

It is fair to assume that Original Sin’s younger version of Dexter will have to hide his vigilante killings from Gellar’s character in much the same way. Thus, Dexter: Original Sin can turn Gellar into the adult trying to find answers to a mystery and, in the process, threatening to uncover a teenage antihero’s secret double life. Wolf Pack gave her a similar role in 2023 and both parts invert her role in Buffy The Vampire Slayer, where Gellar’s heroine was the one doing all the covering up and hiding.

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While Dexter’s divisive series finale means that a comeback isn’t a bad idea, it is still a shame that Gellar’s earlier comeback didn’t take off. There are four books in author Edo van Belkom’s Wolf Pack novel series, so the story of the show never had an opportunity to find its feet. With four young main characters and Gellar’s arson detective to follow, Wolf Pack season 1 had too much story to tell and not enough screen time to do it justice. This could have been fixed in a second season, and the show’s ratings success proves it had potential.

Unfortunately, even though Wolf Pack subverted traditional werewolf tropes, the series was canceled after its first outing. Wolf Pack’s playful take on the werewolf sub-genre wasn’t enough to save the series, even though the show deserved more than one season to tell its story. Luckily, Sarah Michelle Gellar has been able to bounce back with her upcoming role in Dexter’s prequel. As Dexter’s CSI boss, Gellar can flip the role that made her famous in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Thus, Dexter’s prequel Original Sin is arguably even more exciting than a potential Wolf Pack season 2.