When we decided to put Adam Brody on the cover of the Stylist Christmas issue we knew it would be popular, but I don’t think any of us realised quite how much love it would receive.

All those fans will be as thrilled as I am that the drama about the hot rabbi (Brody) and the agnostic podcaster (Kristen Bell) will be back soon after being renewed just two weeks after it first aired. Finally, we’ll learn what comes after that massive What next? cliffhanger where – spoiler alert – Noah decided to make a go of it with Joanne, even if that meant giving up his dreams of becoming head rabbi. 

In an interview for Variety, Brody revealed some glad tidings, saying: “We’re shooting in February, and hopefully they’ll have it out by September next year.” A new series in 2025 is the Christmas gift we all deserve.  

While we don’t know how the drama of season two will unfold, we do know that the show’s creator, Erin Foster, will have some excellent help behind the scenes for the new series. “I’m so lucky to be able to continue this story, and to do it alongside Jenni Konner and Bruce Eric Kaplan, who I’ve been such a fan of since Girls… Justice for healthy relationships being the most romantic!” she said in a statement following the announcement.

Brody is very relaxed about where the plot goes, saying: “I don’t care, as long as it’s clever and sweet and funny, you know what I mean?” I am not as chilled. So alongside those (mostly) healthy relationships, here’s what else I’m hoping for from season two of Nobody Wants This…

1. Noah and Joanne have a happy, simple stress-free life

I know it’s not high drama to watch people get together and things be fine, but I’d be very happy with that. 

I’d be enthralled if Noah gets to keep his job and get promoted. I’d be delighted if Joanne could keep doing her podcast with no limits on what she can talk about, and they don’t have any arguments or misunderstandings. What can I say? I just love it when people like each other and it’s not stressful. 

2. Even more kissing 

I’m also totally on board for Noah to order Joanne to put more things down, in addition to bags and ice-creams, so he can hold her face and kiss her passionately in the middle of the street. Ideally, he’d make sure the strap of the bag was looped around his ankle so we (just me?) don’t have to spend the whole moment worrying it’s going to get stolen.

3. We learn more about Noah and Joanne

How do they both have such lovely houses? I read the internet; I know it’s not cheap to live in LA. Do rabbis and podcasters really earn enough to live in giant, gorgeous houses that should be featured in an Architectural Digest tour?  Case in point: my friend messaged me last night to say that Noah’s kitchen tiles were going on her new house Pinterest board. 

Property aside, I’d like answers to the following: 

• What happened when Joanne was a lesbian for a year?
• How long have Joanne and Noah been dating in season one? Is it a week? A month? Six months?
• Do Joanne and Morgan have jobs aside from the podcast? And if not, how many episodes they do a week? And how many listeners do they have?
• How did Brody’s basketball team, the Matzah Ballers, get together? 
• Where did Joanne buy that fluffy red matching set she wore to the synagogue?

4. That Noah will never again interrupt an important work meeting 

My one red flag of the series was when Noah crashed a meeting between Joanne and her sister Morgan (Justine Lupe) about their podcast to ask her to be her girlfriend. I refuse to believe it was that important a question that it couldn’t wait until she got home. Let’s not glorify impulsive acts done for someone’s own benefit again, please. 

5. Justice for Rebecca

As Arielle Steele wrote about the depiction of Jewish women in the show: “The message appears to be that “cute, lovely Jewish men need to be rescued by fun-loving blonde women in order to escape the shackles of an unfulfilling, entrapping Jewish relationship.”

And while Joanne admits to stalking Rebecca (Emily Arlook), we’re not expected to feel much sympathy for her: she wasn’t funny or interesting enough to be loved by the man she thought she was going to marry. And while I’m at it, let’s not condemn her best friend Esther (Jackie Tohn) for not instantly accepting Noah’s new relationship just because it would make the people around her feel better. 

Let’s give Rebecca a lovely new relationship, if that’s what she wants, in season two. 

6. We get a whole episode dedicated to Joanne’s mum and dad

“Dad’s gay and Mom is still in love with him.” With that sentence alone I wanted to know everything about Joanne and Morgan’s parents. A sentiment which only grew with the discovery that Lynn (their mother, played by Stephanie Faracy) knows everything about her daughters’ lives, as well as her “propensity for the mystical”.

And while we’re at it, I wouldn’t be mad at a whole spin-off series about Pat, Joanne’s dad’s new boyfriend. 

7. That it will be out next week

Ok, I already know this one won’t happen, but I do hope they’re planning for a 35-part series. And a follow up released instantly after. 

Let me dream…

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