Kevin Peyton is the ex-husband of Jackie Peyton and the father of Grace and Fiona Peyton. He is portrayed by Dominic Fumusa.
Biography[]
Kevin in the beginning of the series is a charming, naive, and sweet husband to Jackie Peyton. Kevin is very attractive and extremely kind. Kevin is always putting himself second best to Jackie, being submissive to her and allowing her to call the shots.
Kevin had no idea that Jackie had a long term affair with Eddie Walzer. Kevin is the bar owner of Red Owl, which was recently remodeled close to the finale.
Kevin has one younger sister, Tunie Peyton, who features during the third season.
During season 3, things get hairy as Jackie disrespected Kevin by taking the money from Eleanor O'Hara for the girls tuition. Kevin begins to get suspicious, discovering pharmacy bills in the lockbox at Yuri's that Kevin didn't know exist.
Kevin blows up, stages an intervention with O'Hara and ends up being completely manipulated by Jackie into believing her addiction was mild. Jackie shows some real significant peak addiction behaviours - the ability to lie without worry, being amazingly convincing and only thinking about the pills above all.
You can see that after the intervention Kevin is trying to believe Jackie but as she slips deeper into addiction, things come apart.
Divorce[]
TBA
Personality[]
Kevin is a naive person who is initially loving, supportive, and accommodating. The series heavily focuses on Jackie's career (obviously, as the protagonist) but we see Kevin is also significant, while also being a character whose naivety lends itself to ignorance about what is really going on.
Kevin provides the primary, stable, consistent caregiver role to Grace and Fi. He is consistently there for any panic attack, appointment or sports day. Jackie - as an addict - takes advantage of his generosity, consistently minimizing, and manipulating him, while continuing to profess her love for him and their children. This presents an issue when dealing with her love for her husband and her (possible) love for Eddie - as she tells Dr. O'Hara, "It's possible to love more than one person at once."
Eventually, after discovering about Eddie, the lies turn to bitterness for Kevin. We already see that Kevin can become very angry and struggle with interpersonal conflict - as we see during the holiday where he walks off from his family in the car.
Unfortunately as Kevin's life unravels, he becomes more aggressive and hostile, leading him to question his marriage, his relationships with people surrounding his universe with Jackie, and even his relationships with his children.
He starts by paying for Fiona to go to the same private school as Grace, as well as changing both girls files to state he is the only emergency contact.