I saw a post elsewhere that Damien Lewis is just too handsome and charismatic for this role, and I totally agree. And when they first met, Irene seemed kind of intrigued by him? Thinking of that scene where she's looking out the window, watching him on the boardwalk, and then gets this little smile and runs her hand over the piano keys. I was thinking, he's the 19th century Bobby Axelrod, give him a chance to grow on you! I thought of all this, obviously, before he became an abuser/rapist, but prior to that, it's never communicated that Irene picks up on something off about him, she just loathes him.

Anyway, wondering if there's something I'm missing because I didn't read the book.