Director: Erin Foster
A rabbi and an agnostic podcaster fall for each other despite every reason not to in Nobody Wants This, the 2024 American comedy built entirely around that mismatch.
What is Nobody Wants This about?
Noah is a rabbi with a congregation watching his every move; Joanne hosts a frank, unfiltered podcast about sex and relationships and has no interest in organized religion. Neither of them is looking for the other, which is exactly why the show spends its first stretch of episodes finding reasons they keep ending up in the same room. From there, the series works less like a will-they-won't-they and more like a study of two very different social worlds bumping into each other — Noah's family and temple community on one side, Joanne's chaotic, oversharing circle of friends and her sister on the other. Each half-hour episode plays the culture clash for comedy without turning either character into a punchline, letting the show's warmth come from how seriously it takes both Noah's faith and Joanne's skepticism. The half-hour format keeps the pace brisk, and the show leans on sharp, conversational dialogue rather than elaborate plotting to carry its central romance forward, one awkward dinner and nosy relative at a time.
Cast & crew
Kristen Bell plays Joanne opposite Adam Brody's Noah, with Justine Lupe and Timothy Simons rounding out the circle of siblings and friends who keep commenting on a relationship neither lead quite knows how to define.
Context & significance
Created by Erin Foster and released in 2024, Nobody Wants This belongs to a wave of half-hour American comedies that mine specific, lived-in subcultures — here, a synagogue community and a podcasting scene — for both humor and genuine texture. Rather than treating religion as a punchline or an obstacle to clear, the show uses Noah's rabbinical life as a real, detailed world that shapes the comedy, a choice that gives the central romance more to push against than a generic rom-com setup would.
Where & how to watch
Nobody Wants This is available on K-Time with both Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles, letting viewers choose Farsi audio or Farsi text over the original English. Browsing the show's page costs nothing; watching the episodes requires logging into a K-Time account. The platform's entire experience, including navigation and search, runs in Farsi for Persian-speaking viewers abroad.