Physically, the casting is a bit off but emotionally we're pretty sure this actor is nailing it. Pat Montgomery is being portrayed by actor Timothy Simons, who's best known as Jonah Ryan from Veep. While Jonah is dorky, often sleazy, but adorably lonely, the character of Pat comes across as a devoted father and husband who, at times, is more like a third child to Candy (played by Jessica Biel).

When we first meet him, he's enthusiastically discussing plans to take the kids to see The Empire Strikes Back. And while the faux confidence of Jonah Ryan is missing here, what we get is the comfortable confidence of a man who's deeply satisfied with his life. Nothing drives that point home harder than when Candy tells Pat he should get more friends and he says, "I'm not 11 years old. I have you." And that's when we start to see the cracks in Candy's life as she realizes she's the sun in the orbit of her family's universe, which cannot last.

Speaking exclusively with Distractify, Timothy Simons opened up about tackling this simple, somewhat oblivious character.

"I would joke around [on set] about how my job is pretty easy in the first couple episodes in that, I just had to play a guy who was uncomplicated and stoked about how things were going," he said.

Of course, things don't stay uncomplicated for long, which means Timothy's job as an actor got a bit more layered and difficult.

"There was one big question in my mind about [Pat]," Timothy revealed. "How does one compartmentalize this new information about your spouse, somebody who you have, in front of God and family, said that you'll spend the rest of your life with for better or worse? How does somebody who thinks their entire life is set and solved, compartmentalize pretty unbelievable new information?"

The role was a bit of a departure for Timothy, who audiences have become used to seeing in comedies. But, as he told Distractify, it was easy to agree to the miniseries when he got the offer.

"I'm a huge fan of Jessie [Biel] and Mel[anie] Lynskey," he said. "I mean, that's kind of a thing right there. They don't really do anything that's bad, so it makes it kind of an easy "yes" when somebody asks you to do something like this."

Candy premieres on Monday, May 9 on Hulu and will release new episodes each day until its finale on Friday, May 13.