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Fans of The Hunting Party are eagerly invested in the potential romance between Bex and Shane. Among those cheering for this love story is Josh Dallas, known for his role on Manifest alongside Melissa Roxburgh.
“I’m well aware of the buzz around them. I was on set, and I must say I’m a big supporter of this pairing,” Dallas, 47, shared exclusively with Us Weekly regarding the fictional duo. “I truly hope this unfolds, as it would be amazing to see.”
Dallas encouraged the NBC series to embrace the “slow burn” approach between Bex (played by Roxburgh) and Shane (portrayed by Josh McKenzie). Roxburgh, 33, echoed this sentiment, expressing to Us that “slow burns are fantastic” for developing onscreen relationships.
“What keeps viewers hooked from episode to episode is the suspense and intensity of the storyline, along with the chaos caused by these killers,” she explained. “But the lingering question in viewers’ minds is, ‘Will they or won’t they?’ That’s what makes a compelling love story,” she added.
Such anticipation can indeed be worthwhile. From the slow-budding romance of Stiles and Lydia in Teen Wolf to the eventual connection between Joyce and Hopper in Stranger Things, numerous TV series have masterfully crafted relationships that take time to blossom. The beloved MTV show, which aired from 2011 to 2017, explored the life of a high schooler who transformed into a teenage werewolf after being bitten, adding layers of intrigue to the narrative.
The Hunting Party, which premiered in 2025, is a crime procedural about investigators who are assembled to track down and capture the most dangerous killers in the country. The twist? The criminals escaped from a top-secret prison that’s not supposed to exist.
Roxburgh’s character is an ex-FBI agent recruited to the task force due to her reputation as a profiler who caught the world’s most dangerous serial killers. After a past connection with Oliver (Nick Wechsler), who was killed off at the beginning of season 2, viewers have focused all their attention on Bex and Shane.
“As far as the characters go, I am always cheering for the history and the relationships where it’s like they’ve been through so much together,” Roxburgh previously told Us in February 2025. “If they do build this love story and love triangle, Shane is safe and he’s very calm and cool waters. We have the bad boy who murdered someone and he had a reason. We have the person who didn’t murder someone. We’ll see.”
Elsewhere on the show, Roxburgh was able to reunite with Dallas after Manifest in the Thursday, April 2, episode of the hit NBC series.
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“I couldn’t have been more thrilled with this character. He’s diabolical, of course. But it was just so juicy and delicious to be able to play somebody whose moral code was so, so different from anything that I’ve ever played before,” Dallas recalled. “But putting that aside, just to be back on the screen and back on set with Melissa was the real high point for me.”
Roxburgh “tried to get Josh on the show” several times before the right role came along.
“I’ve been trying to get him on the show for a long time and then finally he was free,” she shared with Us. “We have been talking back and forth about when that might happen. There was one other episode — I won’t say which one — that we had tried to get him for.”
She concluded: “This was a perfect match for him because his killer is a shoemaker. I know that Josh Dallas likes nice clothes so we got him for the good stuff.”
The Hunting Party airs on NBC Thursdays at 10 p.m. ET and new episodes are available to stream on Peacock the next day.