Nobody Wants This Review: Season 2 Continues to Charm With Sharp Chemistry and Warm Realism
Netflix’s Los Angeles–set romantic comedy Nobody Wants This returns with Season 2, carrying forward the unlikely love story between Noah, a devoted rabbi, and Joanne, a sharp-tongued sex podcaster who does not share his faith. Where Season 1 ended on a cliffhanger drenched in messy conviction and emotional clarity, Season 2 begins by doing the opposite: refusing to dwell on the doom and instead letting the couple live out the everyday friction of trying to make an impossible pairing actually work.
There is no reset monologue, no religious confrontation sequence, no scripted “rules of love vs. rules of faith” showdown. Instead, we get two adults in their late 30s quietly trying to build a life together, bickering about dinner party etiquette, debating podcast boundaries, and adjusting to the idea that sometimes love chooses first and logic negotiates later.
Where most romantic comedies sprint toward either breakup or bridal aisle, Nobody Wants This takes the rare middle lane: the administrative maintenance of love. The show is more fascinated by daily irritations than grand gestures. One minute, Joanne is glowing at having made Noah complain like a normal mortal; the next minute, she is unnerved by the lingering presence of his mother’s disapproval. That small-scale realism, not sitcom shouting, gives the show its emotional traction.
Noah, meanwhile, pays a career cost for the relationship, passed over for the head rabbi job of his dreams, but the story smartly avoids martyrdom. He lands instead at a more progressive temple, where Seth Rogen and Kate Berlant steal every second they appear. It is one of the few workplace sides in modern romcom TV that feels genuinely fun without becoming its own separate show.
Joanne’s reluctance to convert does not turn into a battlefield; it turns into a soft, hovering ache. She tries to see if affection for a faith can be reverse-engineered through repetition and osmosis, and finds that belief is not a behaviour you can brute-force. The show resists the urge to make her a villain for hesitating or make Noah weak for wanting her anyway. That refusal to accelerate the theological tension is exactly what keeps the plot believable and watchable.
What does land less gracefully is the occasional shallow sales-pitch approach to Judaism, equating warmth, nosiness, or humour with intrinsic Jewishness. It is forgivable, but also the weakest intellectual move the show makes.
Kristen Bell and Adam Brody are built for each other on screen. Their tempo, snappy, unrehearsed, tiny-flinch realism, gives the show its voltage. Bell plays Joanne as a woman who is tough only because she’s terrified; Brody plays Noah as a righteous man only because he is terrified of losing control. Together, they make anxiety look lived-in, not performed.
Justine Lupe, as Joanne’s sister and co-host Morgan, remains the show’s stealth masterpiece, brittle, brilliant, and chaotically open-wounded. Her Season 2 arc with love-bombing therapist Andy adds both idiocy and ache in the right proportions. Timothy Simons, as Noah’s brother Sasha, continues to play the kind of tragic advice-giver who has no idea how to run his own life, reliably hilarious, reliably human.
Season 2 does not reinvent anything, deliberately. It deepens the tone it already nailed: quick, observational, smart without sterility, romantic without sap. The joke rate is steady, the chemistry is bankable, and the emotional stakes are grounded in recognisable adult choices rather than plot-engineered ultimatums.
For viewers tired of romcoms that either burn down or balloon into fantasy, Nobody Wants This continues to offer the rare middle romance written at human temperature. Not explosive, not decorative, not nihilistic, simply believable.
It is easy to buy; easier to binge; hardest of all to dismiss.
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