Nobody Wants This”, Netflix’s wildly popular romcom series starring Adam Brody and Kristen Bell as a hot rabbi and a sexy shiksa trying to make it work as a couple against all odds, is back. And thank goodness! As the days shorten and temperatures plummet, this tale of two deliciously charismatic protagonists and their offbeat array of family and friends is like a little ray of sunshine through autumn’s oncoming gloom. I inhaled it in a day.
Season one concluded with Noah (Brody) chasing after Joanne (Bell) and declaring that their love was more important than his potential promotion to head rabbi (a job he’d been working towards his entire career, but hey ho). Yeehaw! Love wins! Season two picks up with the couple now in a gloriously fulfilling relationship, but the cracks quickly begin to show, particularly when it comes to light that their reunion was based on a fairly key misunderstanding: Noah believed they had “tabled” Joanne’s potential conversion to Judaism; Joanne believed it was “off the table”. Similar sounding but, as it turns out, very different interpretations of the same conversation.
