Dan Broderick

Dan Broderick is a driven young medical student turned lawyer, the golden-boy husband at the center of a marriage built on ambition and appearances. Charming and supremely confident, he expects the world—and his wife—to orbit his career, treating success as something owed to him rather than earned through partnership.

Christian Slater plays Dan with a slick, self-satisfied charisma that makes his entitlement almost seductive before it curdles. The show lets him believe his own myth completely, and Slater's performance finds the specific arrogance of a man who mistakes control for love, making him magnetic and maddening in equal measure.