Sealed with a kiss. Twenty years after Adam Brody first became a heartthrob in the teen drama “The O.C.
,” he’s back with Netflix’s romantic comedy sensation “Nobody Wants This.” Now streaming, the rom-com series stars Brody and Kristen Bell, both 44. Their steamy kiss in the second episode is lighting the internet on fire, especially millennials who first fell for his cool nerd “O.
C.” character, Seth Cohen. “Had me blushing,” one fan commented on X, formerly Twitter, posting footage of the kissing scene between Brody and Bell.
“I haven’t seen such natural and scintillating chemistry between two leads in a rom-com in a really long time. Adam Brody and Kristen Bell together just work,” another viewer gushed. A third fan declared, “Adam Brody is the perfect romance lead and we have severely underutilized that in the last 10-15 years.
” “Nobody Wants This” features Joanne (Bell), an atheist podcaster, and Noah (Brody), a rabbi. As the couple fall in love, they wonder if they can make it work with their different lifestyles and backgrounds. Their relationship also faces the skepticism of family and friends.
While Brody has had plenty of work since “The O.C.,” appearing in the Oscar-nominated “American Fiction” as a slimy movie exec and in the buzzy film “Promising Young Woman” (as another slimeball), this show allows him to play a character closer to Seth Cohen, the part which first made him a star.
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