Steve Wood

Steve Wood is Judy's ex-fiancé, a smooth, successful real estate developer who keeps circling back into her life even after their engagement ended. He's charming in the way people who are used to getting what they want are charming — attentive, generous, a little too interested in keeping tabs on her new friendship with Jen.

James Marsden plays charisma as a kind of weapon, letting Steve's easy smile curdle into something controlling almost imperceptibly. The show uses his golden-boy handsomeness against itself, so the character becomes a study in how likability can be its own form of menace, long before you're sure that's what you're watching.