Deb Scott

Deb Scott is Nathan's mother and Dan's wife, a poised, image-conscious woman living inside a marriage that looks better from the outside than it does up close. She keeps the family's surface calm while Dan's ambitions for Nathan and his old rivalry with Keith and Karen threaten to crack it, watching more than she lets on.

Barbara Alyn Woods plays Deb as brittle rather than cold, a woman who chose comfort over honesty years ago and is starting to feel the cost. The show lets her be complicit and sympathetic at once, and Woods finds the flicker of self-awareness underneath the country-club composure that makes Deb's slow unraveling worth tracking.