This article contains Nobody Wants This season one spoilers!!!!
Nobody Wants This is the latest show-making group chat around the world pop the fuck off. It’s got everything I crave in a show — likeable characters, a realistic love story, humour, and early 2000s icons Adam Brody and Kristen Bell.
The romantic-comedy series first landed on Netflix on September 26 and within days, viewers were already begging for a second season.
The series follows the love story of an outspoken sex and dating podcaster named Joanne (Kristen Bell) who meets a recently single Rabbi named Noah (Adam Brody) at a friend’s dinner party. After some witty repartee, it’s clear that the pair have a connection. While Noah and Joanne have a romantic spark, their different lifestyles make dating difficult.
He’s a Rabbi from a conservative family who dreams of leading his synagogue’s congregation. Whereas Joanne is a “shiksa”, a disparaging term for a non-Jewish woman who Noah’s family doesn’t approve of.
Instead of the ‘will they, won’t they’ rhetoric we’re so used to, the cornerstone of Nobody Wants This is the new love between Joanne and Noah. It’s the outside factors that they have to battle to stay together that makes the show so goddamn interesting.
The series was based on the life of podcaster Erin Foster, who fell in love with her Jewish husband Simon Tikhaam and converted to Judaism before they got married.
But here’s the thing: Will Joanne follow in Erin’s footsteps in season two? Will there even be a season two? Let’s investigate.
Has Nobody Wants This been renewed for season 2?
After watching the ending of season one, the series could definitely go either way. But after only being on Netflix for less than a month, it’s too soon to tell whether Nobody Wants This will be renewed for a second season. However, so far, the reception is looking promising with the series scoring a 95 per cent rating on Rotten Tomatoes and picking up some serious buzz on social media.
In an interview with Today, Foster said that she hopes a second season is made possible.
“There is so much more story to tell,” Foster said.
“We’re getting a really positive response and so I think the conversations have definitely started to happen about a potential season two,” she said.
What does the cast want to happen in Nobody Wants This season 2?
In the final episode of season one, we find out that Noah is being primed for his dream job as the head Rabbi of his local synagogue. But in the top gig, he can’t be with a non-Jewish woman so he asked Joanne if she would convert to Judaism for him. While she says yes at first, she soon realises that she misunderstood the significance of converting and that if she did convert, it wouldn’t be for the right reasons.
They break up, but the series ends with Noah choosing Joanne. It’s not really a cliffhanger, but it does make the audience wonder how they’re going to navigate their lives with their differences in faith.
If season two takes place, Foster and the cast have some ideas of what they want to see happen.
“The story in season one unfolds really slowly,” Foster says.
“I think if there is a season two I would want to just kind of pick up where we leave off and continue to take it slow, because I don’t want us to get too far ahead of ourselves. I mean, I want my show to be on the air as long as possible!”
While Adam Brody is hopeful for a second season, he admitted to Today that he doesn’t know what would be in store for Joanne and Noah.
“It’s such an open-ended ending,” he said.
“I think that we get the impression that they’re going to try to make it work and be together. And so what that looks like? I don’t think they know.”
Kristen Bell is content either way.
“The reason you watch a show is to decide will they or won’t they,” she said.
“I’m happy with the beautiful way this particular story ended, and I feel like there is so much real estate to play with when you are writing about the challenges of navigating different outlooks on life and meddling family members and settling down and compromising and lust and love and all those things. And if I had an answer for you, we would not be able to do a second season.”
Although season two hasn’t officially been announced by Netflix, I think it’s very likely it’ll be renewed. So if you haven’t seen it just yet — and are craving a series that’ll entertain and scratch your early 2000s nostalgia — you can give season one of Nobody Wants This a watch on Netflix in eager preparation and manifestation for season two.
