‘Nobody Wants This’ Review: A Rabbi and A Podcaster Walk Into a Party . . .

A quirky rom-com pairing Kristen Bell and Adam Brody is something of a millennial fever dream. After all, the actors played Veronica Mars and Seth Cohen, two of TV’s most quick-witted and fast-talking teen characters, and have been beloved in everything they’ve done since. And in a lot of ways Nobody Wants This scratches the itch to see the pair together, satisfying any curiosity about what their onscreen chemistry could be like. The 10-episode comedy series, created by Erin Foster, casts Bell as Joanne, an agnostic, sex-obsessed podcast host living in Los Angeles. She’s unlucky in love, but her career, which she shares with her free-spirited sister Morgan (Justine Lupe), is on the rise. One night, at a party, Joanne encounters Noah (Brody), a hipster rabbi who has recently broken up with his perfect Jewish girlfriend Rebecca (Emily Arlook). Sparks fly, but is it a meet-cute or a potential rebound for Noah?

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