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In a press release announcing him as the show's new leading man, the network noted that Owens was married for 25 years and has two sons.
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Carson Blackwelder, People.com, 23 July 2025
Shedding her cutie-pie image, Stone convincingly berates her character’s delusional father, and then practically steals the movie during a rooftop scene with Edward Norton’s vain leading man.
—Tim Grierson, Vulture, 23 July 2025
Fittingly for a series whose leading man is in a band, many of them revolve around music.
—Inkoo Kang, New Yorker, 10 July 2025
The crowd roars and the vast, unsmiling curtain-call cast line the stage with the leading man bare-chested and covered in blood.
—David Benedict, Variety, 1 July 2025
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Carson Blackwelder, People.com, 23 July 2025
Shedding her cutie-pie image, Stone convincingly berates her character’s delusional father, and then practically steals the movie during a rooftop scene with Edward Norton’s vain leading man.
—Tim Grierson, Vulture, 23 July 2025
Fittingly for a series whose leading man is in a band, many of them revolve around music.
—Inkoo Kang, New Yorker, 10 July 2025
The crowd roars and the vast, unsmiling curtain-call cast line the stage with the leading man bare-chested and covered in blood.
—David Benedict, Variety, 1 July 2025
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“Leading man.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/leading%20man. Accessed 6 Aug. 2025.
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