John Reyes

John is Nadia's ex, the kind of soft, earnest presence she seems to have outgrown but can't quite shake. He turns up at her birthday party fretting over his missing cat, all wounded sincerity and eagerness to reconnect, a reminder of a life she left behind that keeps circling back around her.

Yul Vazquez plays him with such open, unguarded feeling that he becomes funny and touching in the same breath — a grown man genuinely distraught about a cat, genuinely still in love. Against Nadia's brittle wit, his sincerity lands like a small ache, and the show never mocks him for it.