Culture

Season 2 of 'Nobody Wants This' Is the Love Story Every Modern Woman Secretly Wants

In a culture that treats faith as outdated and relationships as disposable, Nobody Wants This dares to ask what happens when a sex podcaster falls in love with a rabbi.

By Johanna Duncan6 min read
Netflix/Nobody Wants This

Netflix’s NWT pairs Joanne (Kristen Bell), an outspoken and emotionally complex podcaster who’s made a career out of dissecting the absurdities of modern dating, with Noah (Adam Brody), a sincere rabbi whose entire life is built around faith, family, and tradition. Their unlikely love story unfolds not just as an opposites-attract romance, but as a quiet cultural duel between America’s rising nihilism and its fading reverence for meaning.