Rob Mahoney

And we've raved about that.

I love that aspect of what he's getting to do on the show because I think it's very different from what he's often asked to do.

Yeah.

To me, he has always been or most commonly been the kind of performer who can just so easily tap into this like deep, profound sadness on a dime.

Absolutely out of nowhere.

Yeah.

He's so charming.

He can dial that part of it up and then it just undercuts and just stabs you in the side with some bit of tragic backstory.

I'm sorry about that for you and I guess for Matthew Rhys, but damn if it isn't effective.

I think just the idea, though, that these are being hidden for multiple reasons, right?

Like, there's the things he's keeping from Evan, and then there's just, like, the parts that he's keeping from himself that, like, he doesn't want to have to grapple with on a daily basis.

And so that part of, like, the person I love wouldn't want you to remember the person who wrote these letters is such an understandable and deeply depressing idea and one that would weigh down a family and weigh down a father, right?

And the idea that we're seeing him try to understand, like, what do I share with Evan when?

And I'm going to bring out these photos that are sad to me, that bring me down.

Because in this moment, they're like a heartening idea.

The idea of who Lauren was and the life that she led before all this is somehow like now the happy thing that brings them together.

Did we?

Let's do it.

Okay.

We'll just zone out for a little bit.