David Makes Man's Arlen Escarpeta Breaks Down Why JG's Death 'Would've Wrecked David's World' in Season 2 TVLine 4 hrs ago David Makes Man character JG was slated for an early death. Ultimately, series creator Tarrell Alvin McCraney changed his mind about killing off JG in Season 2 because he felt like the title character had suffered enough trauma in the inaugural season. More from TVLine “That’s why young JG was a ghost originally,” Escarpeta divulges to TVLine. “Tarrell talks about this. Killing JG really would’ve wrecked David’s world one hundred times over. That’s his younger brother, but also his son, in a sense, because David raised JG. Now, in a completely different storyline, he’s losing JG because JG is his own person.”