Nobody Wants This
Netflix has been on a bit of a roll lately with its movie offerings, and now we have a great new TV show to add to the mix, racking up impressive critic scores.
The show is Nobody Wants This, which would make for a funny title if the show bombed, but instead, it’s doing great with a 95% critic score on Rotten Tomatoes and an also-solid 84% audience score.
The ten episode series of 30 minute episodes has a stellar cast which is led by The Good Place’s Kristen Bell and The OC’s Adam Brody (sorry I will always know him from The OC even if it was 20 years ago). It also features the likes of Veep’s Timothy Simmons (Jonah!) and Succession’s Justine Lupe (Willa!). Great lineup.
Nobody Wants This
The show was created by Erin Foster, an actress turned showrunner whose outing here is stellar, it seems. The show is described as “semi-autobiographical. Here’s the official synopsis of the comedy:
“Nobody Wants This centers on the unlikely relationship between an outspoken, agnostic woman, Joanne (Golden Globe nominee Kristen Bell), and an unconventional rabbi, Noah (SAG nominee Adam Brody). From the moment they meet at a friend’s dinner party, both can tell there’s something between them. But also potentially between them are their differing outlooks on life, all of the modern obstacles to love, and their sometimes well-meaning, sometimes sabotaging families — including her sister Morgan (Justine Lupe) and his brother Sasha (Timothy Simons).”
The show has debuted at #2 on the Netflix Top 10 list, but it’s unclear if it will make it to #1 with the relative popularity of Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story, given how big Ryan Murphy’s previous killer outing, Dahmer, proved to be on the service. It was the third most-watched English series on Netflix ever, and if this follow-up gets even a fraction of that, it may be on top for a while.
Nobody Wants This is going to be polar opposite in terms of subject matter and tone, perhaps a refreshing change of pace if you did just want the Menendez story. Or the Mr. McMahon documentary about the fallen-from-grace WWE owner. Or the very bad Ellen DeGeneres special. Really, it’s the best show on the list right now, that much is clear. Time to give it a watch and see if it lives up to these scores.
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