Did you binge “Nobody Wants This,” Netflix’s hottest new comedy in which Adam Brody plays a charming rabbi who falls in love with a non-Jewish woman, in record time? It seems like a lot of people gave. The show, which also stars “Frozen” and “Veronica Mars” star Kristin Bell as said hot rabbi’s love interest, Joanne, already got renewed for a second season, a decision that was apparently informed by early data, with the writer’s room already resuming work on the show weeks ago.
About that next season, the show’s creator Erin Foster, who based the series on her own love story with a nice Jewish boy, music producer Simon Tikhman, who eventually became her husband, has shared some salient details with us about what it will contain.
So here’s what we know about season two of “Nobody Wants This.”
It will probably not be out for at least another year.
Yes, the show was renewed fast, but according to Foster, making this new season will take at least another year, which means we’ll hopefully see more of Rabbi Noah Roklov and Joanne in fall of 2025. Foster joked that the plan is to release this new season on the Jewish High Holidays, just like season one which came out on the week of Rosh Hashanah, saying they’ll plan to release a new season “once a year, the same time, we’ll be really consistent. We’re just going to be a Rosh Hashanah launch, always.”
There are going to be even more (very exciting) Jews behind the scenes.
While we don’t know anything about additions to the cast, we do know that two very exciting Jewish creatives will take over for Foster as showrunners. Jenni Konner and Eric Bruce Kaplan, who previously worked together on the groundbreaking Jewish (Jew-ish?) coming-of-age show “Girls.”
Foster will stay on as executive producer and in the writer’s room. “Erin is the rare creator with a crystal clear voice and a genuinely collaborative spirit. I am a true fan of Erin’s show,” Konner shared in a press release, adding that she feels so lucky to be back in the writer’s room with Kaplan and Sarah Heyward, who also worked on “Girls.” Kaplan called the show “unique and beautiful” and said he was already “having the best time working on it.”
The Morgan and Sasha romantic storyline? That’s not happening.
This one is a huge relief for me, personally. Noah’s brother Sasha (Timothy Simons) and Joanne’s sister Morgan (Justine Lupe) will not be making the less cool sibling duo a couple. “I think we’re going to wrap up their weird ‘Is it romantic?’ thing. Because we want to see them together in season two, hanging out,” Foster told the Hollywood Reporter. Foster says the writer room has already told Lupe what is happening with her character next season and the actress said it was her “dream storyline.”
We are getting more of Esther (Jackie Tohn) and Rebecca (Emily Arlook).
“Esther for sure is going to be a regular in season two. We love Jackie, she is such a fun actress,” Foster also shared in the interview. “So I’m excited to see what she does with everything we give her in season two.”
“The Rebecca character was always something I was really passionate about. While maybe someone criticizing her could see a girl who is obsessed with getting married, and that being a Jewish stereotype, that wasn’t the intention. The intention behind her was actually a sweet, beautiful, wonderful, educated, perfect-on-paper Jewish girl that your parents would love for you to be with,” Foster said.
“You do learn so much more about her in the finale. You understand her struggle more and empathize with who she is. So we’re going to continue doing that,” she added.
Your criticism about the show is not actually affecting the writer’s room, at least according to Erin Foster.
“We’re not going to write for a reaction to criticism,” Foster shared in that same interview with THR.
“I’m not going to change the formula, whatever we did in season one worked,” Foster said in her podcast, The World’s Best Podcast, recently. “I’m going to continue giving people what they want.”
We’ll update you once we know more about season two, but in the meantime, you can read the Kveller and Hey Alma’s teams predictions about it here.
