‘Nobody Wants This’ Trailer: Kristen Bell and Adam Brody Rom-Com Is Millennial Dream

Erin Strecker
·2 min read

Hot Priests are so 2019 — this fall, Netflix is debuting a Hot Rabbi.

Given that said rabbi will be portrayed by Adam Brody, we’ll allow it. Brody will star alongside Kirsten Bell in the 10-episode romantic-comedy “Nobody Wants This,” created by Erin Foster (“Barely Famous”). “Nobody Wants This” is one of IndieWire’s most anticipated shows of the fall.

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Here’s the official logline: “An agnostic podcast host and an unconventional rabbi on the rebound walk into a party. When they walk out — together — the unlikely pair, Joanne (Kristen Bell) and Noah (Adam Brody), can tell there is something between them. But also potentially between them, with their differing outlooks on life, all of the modern obstacles to love, and their sometimes well-meaning, sometimes sabotaging families — including her sister Morgan (Justin Lupe) and his brother Sasha (Timothy Simons).”

What a cast!

Anyone who watched “The O.C.” circa 2004 is naturally excited for Brody to be a romantic lead again — something he’s mostly eschewed since his Seth Cohen teen idol days. The actor was last on TV in FX’s “Fleishman Is in Trouble.” Meanwhile, fellow teen-centric star and “Veronica Mars” alum Bell’s last series regular role was Netflix’s “The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window” in 2022.

It seems like both actors are exactly the right people for the series, according to creator Foster.

“This show is based on the only good decision I ever made: falling for a nice Jewish boy,” Foster told Netflix’s Tudum. “But I realized that being happy is way harder than being miserable — there’s nothing to complain about. So, I created this show based on all the ways that finding the right person can be so hard.”

The show also stars Stephanie Faracy, Michael Hitcock, Tovah Feldshuh, Paul Ben-Victor, Emily Arlook, Jackie Tohn, Sherry Cola, and Shiloh Berman. Executive producers include Foster, Bell, Steven Levitan, Craig DiGregorio, Sara Foster, Danielle Stokdyk, Jeff Morton and Jack Burditt. Oly Obst is executive producer for 3arts.

Check out the trailer for “Nobody Wants This” below. The series will stream on Netflix September 26.

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