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Nobody Wants This is a romantic comedy that earns its warmth by grounding the attraction in something specific: a sex podcaster and a rabbi whose lives genuinely do not fit together. The friction is not a misunderstanding that one honest conversation would fix; it runs through identity, belief, and the practical shape of two very different daily existences in Los Angeles.
Families crowd in from both sides, each with their own agenda, and the overlapping interference gives the comedy much of its texture. The courtship moves slowly enough that the moments of real connection land with weight, and the show keeps returning to the same honest question: whether two people can choose each other when the obstacles are structural rather than temporary.
feel-good romcom, slow-burn courtship and Comedy
Comedy and Drama
Season 2 · 10 episodes
Netflix
An agnostic sex podcaster and a newly single rabbi fall in love; discovering if their relationship can survive their wildly different lives and meddling families.
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