Early in the second season of
Everything’s Gonna Be Okay, set at the start of last year’s lockdowns, Adam Faison’s adorable and perpetually amenable character Alex asks for permission to complain. Following a lengthy discussion loaded with the malaise and absurdity of life in quarantine, Alex has finally just hauled out the trash from the home he now shares with his boyfriend, Nicholas (the show’s creator Josh Thomas), and Nicholas’s teenaged sisters, Matilda (Kayla Cromer) and Genevieve (Maeve Press). And after primarily being the supportive boyfriend and a de facto big brother type for the first season, Alex now has real-life problems emerging.