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Samira Mehta, Associate Professor of Women and Gender Studies & Jewish Studies, University of Colorado Boulder

In ‘Nobody Wants This,’ rom-com gets century-old tropes with a new twist – the cute rabbi

Adam Brody and Kristen Bell attend a fan screening for Netflix's 'Nobody Wants This' in New York City. Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images for Netflix

Twenty years ago, the television show “The O.C.” invented the word “Chrismukkah.” Main character Seth Cohen, played by Adam Brody, described his interfaith family’s December tradition of “eight days of presents followed by one day of lots of presents.”

Today Brody is back, starring in a new Netflix show. But this time, instead of playing the child of an interfaith marriage, he is a rabbi dating a woman “without a Jewish bone in her body” – one who, at times, seems unfamiliar with the basics of American Jewish culture.

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