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Your Favorite Podcaster and Rabbi Will Return for ‘Nobody Wants This’ Season Two

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Just a couple weeks after premiering on NetflixNobody Wants This has been renewed for a second season.

Erin Foster’s rom-com series — which follows the unlikely pairing of a rabbi (Adam Brody) and a podcaster (Kristen Bell) — will return in 2025. The streaming service also announced that Jenni Konner and Bruce Eric Kaplan, who both worked with Lena Dunham on Girls, have signed on as executive producers and showrunners.

“It’s a dream to be working on Nobody Wants This,” Konner said in a statement. “Erin is the rare creator with a crystal clear voice and a genuinely collaborative spirit. I am a true fan of Erin’s show and also feel so lucky to be back in a room with two of my favorites, Bruce Kaplan and Sarah Heyward from Girls.” 

Nobody Wants This premiered on Sept. 26. In the days following, the show received criticism for its depiction of Jewish people. Foster, who converted to Judaism after meeting her husband, responded to the backlash in the Los Angeles Times.

“I think we need positive Jewish stories right now,” she said. “I think it’s interesting when people focus on, ‘Oh, this is a stereotype of Jewish people,’ when you have a rabbi as the lead — a hot, cool, young rabbi who smokes weed.”

In a joint interview with Rolling Stone, Brody and Bell discussed the series and why they wanted to bring back the rom-com. “Rom-coms leaned into simplicity for a while, and the reason I liked this one is there are some very complex issues at play that do harken back to Romeo and Juliet, where you want them so badly to be together, you want the world to disappear for them,” Bell said.

From Rolling Stone US.

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