One thing is clear from the response to Netflix’s Nobody Wants This, and that is the fact that the reverse of the title is very true.
Thus, the renewal of the series for a second season, which has already added some extra star power in the form of new characters and cast members. After the first season of the show arrived on Netflix in Sept. 2024, there will be a bit of a wait for the next installment.
Find everything we know about Season 2 of Nobody Wants This below:
When will Nobody Wants This Season 2 come out?
The second season doesn’t have an exact release date, yet, but it will likely return this year.
Has Nobody Wants This Season 2 started production?
Yes! Season 2 is underway. March 3 was the projected start date on production for Season 2, star Jackie Tohn revealed to Deadline at the 30th Critics Choice Awards red carpet. Production did begin in early March 2025 with a shot of co-stars Kristen Bell and Adam Brody cuddling on a couch.
Kristen Bell as Joanne, Adam Brody as Noah in episode 201 of Nobody Wants This.
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Will there be new characters in Nobody Wants This Season 2?
Yes, several new faces will appear in Season 2 of the hit Netflix series. Adam Brody’s wife and real life partner Leighton Meester (Gossip Girl) has boarded the second installment of the show to play Joanne’s (Bell) high school nemesis Abby, who is now an Instagram mommy influencer. Miles Fowler (Bottoms) will play Noah’s Matzah Ballers basketball teammate Lenny, who is positioned as a romantic interest for Joanne’s sister Morgan (Justine Lupe).
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Deadline exclusively broke the news that Alex Karpovsky (Girls) will join as Big Noah, an overly confident rabbi at Noah’s temple and that Arian Moayed (Succession) will portray as Dr. Andy, a psychotherapist who also might be a good match for Morgan.
Who else is in the Nobody Wants This Season 2 cast?
Of course, the show cannot go on without Bell, Brody, Lupe nor Timothy Simons, who all return to reprise their roles. Simons plays Sasha Roklov, brother to Brody’s Noah Roklov. Jackie Tohn has been upped to series regular. She plays Esther Roklov, Sasha’s wife.
L to R: Timothy Simons as Sasha and Jackie Tohn as Esther in ‘Nobody Wants This’
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“Well you know I can’t tell,” she prefaced when Deadline asked her about what she could tease for Season 2. “I haven’t read anything yet, but I’ve got into the writers’ room, we’ve talked about my character arc, and that’s all really exciting. I love her, I love it. So, stay tuned, it’s gonna be really exciting.”
What is Nobody Wants This about? What happened in Season 1?
Season 1 of the show followed a budding romance that developed between an agnostic podcaster (Bell) and a passionate rabbi (Brody) after they met at a dinner party. It is fiction inspired by the real life story of creator Erin Foster, who also hosts a podcast and fell in love with a Jewish man. Foster converted to Judaism. She and her sister Sara, and their production arm The Fatigue Sisters drove the development of the show during a three-year pod deal with 20th Television. Together they host the podcast The World’s First Podcast.
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The first season ended with the challenge for Bell’s Joanne to convert to Judaism so that Brody’s rabbi Noah could move up in the ranks at his synagogue.
Who else is behind creating Season 2 of Nobody Wants This?
Foster, Bell, Steven Levitan, Sara Foster, Danielle Stokdyk, Jeff Morton, Bruce Eric Kaplan, Jenni Konner and Nora Silver serve as executive producers on the romantic comedy show Oly Obst executive produces for 3arts. Kaplan and Konner serve as showrunners, taking the reins in between seasons. The series is produced by 20th Television in association with Steven Levitan Productions.
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