'Nobody Wants This' Has Been Renewed For A Second Season
A sex podcaster and a rabbi walk into a bar... No, it's not the beginning of a bad joke but rather the premise of Netflix's hit rom-com limited series, Nobody Wants This. For the uninitiated, the 10-part series, which debuted on the streaming service on September 26, served as a pertinent reminder for a generation of people why Adam Brody, who played the undeniably lovely Seth Cohen in The O.C., became the subject of our adolescent longings.
Nobody Wants This became Netflix's third most-watched series or film in the UK in the days since its release, and for good reason too. To say Brody's soft and sensitive character, rabbi Noah, is lacking in Rizz – Oxford University Press' word of 2023 – is a colossal understatement. His chemistry, and kismet love story, with fiery Joanne (Kristen Bell) is a hark back to the rom-coms of the 2000s with all of its will-they-won't-they false starts but blatant adoration.
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Without spoiling the series, it ends on something of a cliffhanger, which has left fans who inhaled the series in its first weekend on the platform, gasping for more. Will there be a season two? Will Joanne and Noah make it in the long-term? This is everything we know so far.
Has 'Nobody Wants This' been confirmed for season 2?
Yes, indeed it has. On October 10, Netflix's Chief Content Officer Bela Bajaria confirmed that Nobody Wants This had been renewed for a second season while speaking at the Bloomberg Screentime conference in Los Angeles.
Along with the series' creator, Erin Foster, the second outing of Nobody Wants This will also have Girls alums Jenni Konner and Bruce Eric Kaplan on its team, who are joining as showrunners and executive producers.
Even before the series' release, Foster seemed pretty hopeful about the chance of a second season. The story is a loosely autobiographical story about her own experience with meeting her real life partner, who's Jewish.
Speaking to IndieWire prior to the September 26 Netflix premiere, Foster teased a sophomore season: 'We’re getting a really positive response. And so I think the conversations have definitely started to happen about a potential season two. The story in season one unfolds really slowly. And so 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.'
Who would be in the cast of 'Nobody Wants This' season 2?
We can't really expect Nobody Wants This to continue without Kristen Bell and Brody reprising their roles as Joanne and Noah, as the story would inevitably look at the fallout of Joanne's decision not to convert to Judaism.
We'd also be hoping to see Succession's Justine Lupe return as Joanne's sister Morgan and Timothy Simons as Noah's brother Sasha. It also wouldn't be Nobody Wants This without the families, so we'd also expect to see Stephanie Faracy, Sherry Cola, Jackie Tohn, Tovah Feldshuh, and Paul Ben-Victor reprise their roles, too.
When could we expect 'Nobody Wants This' season 2 to come out?
While it would be preemptive to state a release date before the second season has even entered production, the first season was filmed in and around Los Angeles, where Foster and her husband are based, in March 2024, and was then released six months later in September. With the good news that the series has been renewed for a second season then, we can expect to see Joanne and Noah back on our screens by next summer at the earliest. Watch this space!
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