Nobody Wants This

Nobody Wants This began as a Netflix original on September 26, 2024, created by Erin Foster and drawn from her own conversion to Judaism before marriage. The premise is narrow on purpose: an agnostic sex and dating podcaster named Joanne, played by Kristen Bell, meets a rabbi named Noah Roklov, played by Adam Brody, and the two spend three seasons working out whether the attraction is worth the friction. Thirty episodes aired across three ten-episode seasons, the last of them arriving on October 22, 2025.

The show's texture comes from the collision of two Los Angeles social worlds. Joanne co-hosts a podcast with her sister Morgan (Justine Lupe) and treats public confession as a professional virtue. Noah leads a congregation, answers to his family, and has recently ended a relationship his relatives approved of. Around the couple sit Morgan's chaotic dating life and Noah's brother Sasha (Timothy Simons), whose marriage to Esther (Jackie Tohn) supplies a second, steadier domestic story. The comedy rarely mocks the culture clash; it lets the awkward rooms do the work.

Netflix has kept the series in production and has not announced an end date beyond the third-season finale. Its IMDb rating sits near 7.3, and the show's Wikipedia traffic in a recent thirty-day window ran to roughly 128,000 views across fifteen languages, English accounting for about 105,000 of them. The third season added Sarah Silverman, Andrew Rannells, and Avan Jogia as guests. Off screen, the show drew attention in October 2026 when Brody made comments about Palestine and Foster publicly disagreed with him. [edit]

Joanne's professional life is an exercise in saying the unsayable. She and her sister Morgan host a podcast about sex, dating, and single life in Los Angeles, and the show's appeal rests on Joanne's willingness to describe her own romantic failures in detail. That candor doubles as a defense: as long as she is narrating her relationships, she does not have to commit to one. At a party she meets Noah Roklov, a rabbi who has just come out of a long relationship with a woman his family liked, and the two talk longer than either expected.

The first season works through the obvious objections. Noah's mother has a clear picture of the woman her son should marry, and Joanne is not it. His congregation expects a certain kind of partner. Joanne, for her part, has spent years treating faith as a punchline and now has to decide whether she means it. The season does not resolve these questions so much as make them specific: Shabbat dinners, family gatherings, a conversion conversation that neither party is ready to have. Morgan's romantic disasters and Sasha's marriage to Esther run alongside, giving the show a second household to cut to when the central couple needs air.

Season 2, released in 2025, moves the relationship into public view. Joanne and Noah are together, which means the pressure shifts from whether they will date to how they will date in front of everyone who has an opinion. Exes return, families press, and the couple keeps finding itself in rooms where it is the odd pair out. The season's structure is a series of negotiations, each one a little more consequential than the last, and the comedy comes from watching two people who are good at talking try to talk their way through institutions that do not run on talk.

The third season, ten episodes released October 22, 2025, pushes toward the question the first two seasons kept postponing: can Joanne's secular identity and Noah's faith be integrated into a single life, or does one of them have to give? The show brings in Sarah Silverman, Andrew Rannells, and Avan Jogia as guests and keeps Morgan and Sasha's unresolved dynamic in view. The season's ending is addressed separately below; what can be said here is that it lands on a communal event rather than a private conversation, which fits a series whose argument has always been that love is a negotiation with the people and traditions surrounding the couple, not merely with the person in front of them.[edit]