Am I the only one who found Michael Rosenbaum and Kristen Kreuk's characters to have great chemistry together?

I know their relationship entirely problematic and wrong, toxic, etc- I do not "ship" them together or anything. I just found the dynamic interesting, and the chemistry between the actors was there, like this tension of sorts. I can't find much of anything out there talking about this haha I wonder while the show was coming out, was this noticed and talked about ? Or did everyone just hate it and ignore it altogether. I don't even see the podcast ever really bring that up, but I think the actors did well with the storyline and it made sense given the chemistry I felt at least