The Realistic Joneses is a darkly comic tale of married life wrought against the backdrop of existential crisis and mental illness. John and Pony Jones have just moved in next door to Bob and Jennifer Jones. The two couples first meeting is a rather awkward one, with thinly disguised disdain lacing the conversation. It soon becomes apparent though that a shared last name is not the only thing which connects the four of them. Bob Jones is afflicted with some kind of degenerative mental disease, which is impairing his speech and motor neurone functions with ever greater veracity. And John seems to be suffering from the same thing...
