-- Shares Facebook Twitter Reddit Email I went to three various churches during my adolescence: a youth group on Wednesdays, an Ethiopian church on Sundays and an American one on Saturdays. The ritual of going to that much church felt more devout than my actual devotion to a God I really didn't understand, or was reluctant to understand. But while watching "Nobody Wants This," Netflix's new romantic comedy series centered on an interfaith relationship between an agnostic sex and relationship podcaster, Joanne ( Kristen Bell ), and Noah Roklov — played by a still very hot Adam Brody — religion began to make sense to me again.
Don't get me wrong, I'm still agnostic, but finding comfort in Joanne and Noah's gentile-Jewish romance illuminates the refreshing relationship a person can have with religion. Or maybe it was my longstanding crush on Brody that influenced my openness. Either way, "Nobody Wants This" navigates the line between the chaos in Joanne and Noah's relationship from its meet-cute to the calm in their ever-evolving understanding of each other's stark and sometimes glaring differences and conflict.
Related Timothée Chalamet and the return of the Cool Jew However, their will-they-won’t-they hits a snag when the couple struggles to bridge the gap in their faith difference as the progressive, cool Noah is up for a promotion as head rabbi of his Los Angeles synagogue. Even Noah's liberal interpretation and practice of Judaism are not enough to ignore the striki.