TV Romance
6 ‘Nobody Wants This’ Burning Questions We Need Answered in Season 2
[Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for the Nobody Wants This Season 1.]
Nobody Wants This, the latest hit Netflix series, took the world by storm when it premiered. The show is quenching our rom-com thirst. The perfectly binge-able season follows the unconventional love story of Joanne (Kristen Bell) and Noah (Adam Brody).
The sex/dating podcaster goes to a party hosted by her friend and agent, Ashley (Sherry Cola), where she meets her future lover, Noah. The charismatic Noah is a rabbi, unbeknownst to Joanne, who is agnostic. This theological difference ends up causing quite a few struggles for the budding couple.
Not knowing much about Judaism, Joanne enters a completely new world. As Joanne and Noah become head over heels for each other, they try to make it work. Joanne is willing to sacrifice her relationship with Noah so he can fulfill his dream of being a head rabbi. She doesn’t want to make him choose. In the final moments of the season, Noah shows up and kisses Joanne. He doesn’t know how they will make this relationship stick, but he’s not ready to give it up.
The show was recently renewed for Season 2, and there are plenty of questions we need answered. (Morgan and Sasha, we have our eye on you.)
Nobody Wants This, Season 1, Streaming Now, Netflix
1. What will happen next between Joanne and Noah?
Come on, can anyone be more romantic than Noah?
Running ahead to meet Joanne at her car, they share the season’s final kiss. Despite the head Rabbi situation, he wants to make it work with Joanne.
But what will happen? Is he going to fully change the direction of life? Having dreamt of becoming a head Rabbi for as long as he can remember, just changing the course of your theological career could mess with one’s head.
How long can their blissful state last until things go awry?
2. Will something happen between Morgan and Sasha?
Let’s hope not. Sure, they do have a lot of chemistry, but Sasha (Timothy Simons) is married with a daughter. Does Morgan (Justine Lupe) really want to break that up?
Maybe? I mean, she did have a sex dream about Noah’s brother.
Although she’s somewhat endearing, that’s not enough to completely ruin your perfect family life. It does, however, seem to be on Sasha’s mind. Why else would he text her out of the blue?
Their back-and-forth spats are fun to watch, so, hopefully the “loser siblings” do still get a lot of screen time together. Sasha is undoubtedly one of the funniest characters on the show.
3. Will Noah join the family business if he can’t become head rabbi?
In Nobody Wants This, there’s never any mention of Noah having done anything else besides being a Rabbi. Dreaming of the role since he was a kid, this path has been on his mind for as long as he can remember.
Coming from a wealthy family, there’s one easy route that Noah can go down. He can just join his family’s business. Working alongside his dad and brother, it would be interesting to see Noah do a job that’s way more secular than his previous profession.
He’s so connected to his faith. If he did give up being a rabbi for Joanne, would he regret it down the line?
4. Will Joanne eventually convert to Judaism?
Erin Foster, the creator of Nobody Wants This, based the story on her own life, and she eventually converted when she married her husband. Could this be the trajectory for Joanne?
Being agnostic, it is clear that Joanne would be willing to do it for Noah if it didn’t come with as much pressure. But would she ever truly believe?
When she thought it would only take a couple of weeks, she was down to try. But when the reality of the situation settled in, she wasn’t as thrilled.
And if anyone has a whole learning curve ahead of her, it’s Joanne. She didn’t even know that prosciutto was made from pork. Also, did she really not know what Shabbat was?
5. Will Rebecca be able to move on from Noah and find love?
I’ll come out and say it, Rebecca (Emily Arlook) deserved better. Sure, she shouldn’t have snooped through Noah’s stuff, but didn’t Joanne do the same?
She definitely shouldn’t have assumed that they were married, but people make mistakes.
Clearly still pining after Noah, it is heartbreaking to see her entire future slip away. She deserves to find her perfect partner, preferably someone on track to become a head Rabbi.
6. Will Joanne and Esther become friends?
They seem to be on the trajectory to become friends, but Morgan might have wrecked that plan for Joanne. With Sasha betraying his wife’s trust, it will be quite hard for Joanne and Esther (Jackie Tohn) to become close confidants.
If this happens in Season 2, it could be quite fun. Their dynamic is stellar. Some of the best scenes in the show are between them, so this could result in some great TV. But, then again, so would the two strong ladies conspiring against each other.
With Noah and Sasha being so close, it would make Noah and Joanne’s lives a lot easier if the two women became close.
