It becomes increasingly apparent that Jez’s financial situation is dangerously close to “homelessness,” especially when Jez temporarily needs to move out of Mark’s apartment on a few occasions and is forced to live in a bathtub, a room full of snakes, or a garbage bag in the corner of a mad man’s studio apartment. Despite “working” as a musician for years, he scarcely makes any money from it, and becomes increasingly paranoid that he will never “make it.” During one of his moves out of Mark’s apartment, Jez gathers up all his belongings and realizes that the sum total of his life is a few bags of clothes and a box of porn. This notion is brought to the forefront in the last season when Jez dates Joe, a much younger and more attractive man, to whom Jez is embarrassed to reveal his lack of income, office, and worse yet, his inability to keep up with the partying of a 20-something as Jez turns 40, thereby removing the very last vestige of pride Jez could cling on to.
Published at: 2025-07-20 21:05:19
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