Bobby and Athena are back on track. Would you say theyâre stronger than ever now?
Absolutely. It was an interesting way to not just revisit the trauma that Athena went through but to test their relationship a little bit and to show that what happened to her last season had reverberations into their relationship. They werenât necessarily big soap opera-y after effects in the middle of the season, but just this small little fissure was building across the course of the season until finally, the cracks started to show. Itâs that thing where you break something down and you put it back together, itâs stronger. They needed a little bit of a cathartic moment together because, in a lot of ways, Bobbyâs a very taciturn kind of guy [and] Athenaâs buttoned-down, even though sheâs a woman of big passion. Sheâs also very in control. You have these sort of two controlled people, and every once in a while the blood has to come to the surface and thatâs what happened with them.