Matt McNamara is approximately 16 years of age at the beginning of the show's first season.
39 Facts About Matt McNamara
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Matt McNamara tells his parents that he wants to have a circumcision; Sean declines to perform the procedure, telling Matt there is nothing wrong with not being circumcised.
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However, when Vanessa is turned off, Matt McNamara decides to circumcise himself after reading a 'how-to guide' on the Internet.
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Matt McNamara confesses to the hit and run, and Matt testifies against him in court, claiming that he was not in the car at the time of the accident.
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Matt McNamara eventually discovers the truth about his paternity, shattering his relationship with Sean.
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Adrian begins to display disturbing behavior and runs away from home, while Matt McNamara wants to run away with Ava to Paris, France.
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Matt McNamara discovers Adrian's body and discovers that Ava was once a man, pushing him to the edge of a breakdown.
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The court order is later lifted, but Sean and Matt McNamara remain at odds.
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Matt McNamara starts dating Ariel Alderman who; along with the rest of her family, are Neo-Nazis.
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Matt McNamara stands up to him at gunpoint giving Cherry enough time to hit Alderman from behind with a shovel and shoot him.
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Matt McNamara encourages Matt to move out of his parents' home, calling it "toxic", and he begins cleaning roadsides as part of his religious training.
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Matt McNamara confesses to Sean that he knows that Kimber only married him to get back at Christian, but he really does love her.
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Matt McNamara shows up in Los Angeles with newborn baby Jenna.
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Matt McNamara does want Matt in a gay porn movie after seeing the size of his penis in the homemade porn movie they made.
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Matt McNamara is willing to do the movie, until Kimber stops him.
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Matt McNamara later confronts Christian about the breakup, and an argument ensues in which Christian disowns Matt McNamara.
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Devastated, Matt McNamara turns to meth and accidentally blows up the motel he is staying in, inflicting severe burns on his body.
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Matt McNamara meets one of Christian's patients, Southern girl Emme Lowell, and sleeps with her.
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Emme plans to return home, and, despite his feelings, Matt McNamara makes the right decision and lets her go.
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Christian openly derides Matt McNamara, and tells him to get a real job.
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Matt McNamara then decides to use this disguise to rob other places; he is eventually known as "The Mime" after robbing several stores.
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Matt McNamara is arrested, but released from a line-up by the police when a witness fails to identify.
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Matt McNamara makes it to Christian's place and collapses on the floor; he removes his jacket and shows that he is severely wounded.
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Matt McNamara, who heard Julia and Christian talking, leaves soon after and breaks into Kimber's home to see his daughter.
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Matt McNamara pulls out a handgun and fires it at Christian, but the round only shatters the driver side window.
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Matt McNamara is handcuffed and read his Miranda Rights as he is led to a squad car.
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At the urging of his grandmother Erica, the imprisoned Matt McNamara decides to be a witness in regards to Sean and Julia being unfit parents after Erica decides to petition for custody of Annie and Connor following Sean's suicide attempt.
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Matt McNamara urges Matt to become a "prison bitch", as she believes he will not survive inside otherwise.
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Some time later, in exchange for performing liposuction on a simple-minded, obese death row inmate named Wesley Clovis to ensure that the execution is successful, Sean and Christian make a deal that Matt McNamara is to be released from prison early.
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Clovis is executed, and the now corrupt Matt McNamara is released from prison.
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Matt McNamara goes to work in a carpet store after being released from prison, and falls in love with the manager, Ramona.
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That night, Matt McNamara goes to Christian's apartment to pick up his daughter, where he has a discussion with Christian about what it means to be a father.
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Christian tells him that fatherhood means sacrificing everything for one's children, and that he does not think Matt McNamara is capable of doing that.
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Matt McNamara says that he knows he can be a good father, and that he wants to make Christian proud of him.
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In truth, Ramona had berated Matt McNamara for jilting her, spitting on him.
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Matt McNamara says he has bought tickets and that he wants to leave with her to Paris.
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Ava says that she does not love him, but Matt McNamara says he can see "the smoke" in her eyes.
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Matt McNamara tells her that even though he has made bad decisions, Jenna is a good daughter, and she needs a good mother that she can look up to.
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Matt McNamara goes on to say that he has always loved her and always will.