In 2007, "Soaps In Depth" listed the pairing among the ten perfect couples for the magazine's tenth anniversary issue. Originally, the couple were considered as being "on the verge of" supercouple status, but in February 2009, soap opera columnist Carolyn Aspenson stated that Leo and Greenlee were a "supercouple redefined". She argued that tragic couples such as Leo and Greenlee are a better love story than if they had stayed together with a "boring" everyday life. "They loved, they lost. Their love ‘ended’ tragically but the love itself didn’t die. The death of Leo saddened and frustrated the fans but left them with the thought that these two were meant to be together," she said. In 2011, with the return of Josh Duhamel as Leo, the pairing were also referred to as a supercouple by "Entertainment Weekly"'s Lynette Rice.