When Erin Foster’s Netflix rom-com Nobody Wants This premiered last year, I discussed it through one of my favorite prisms: Is it good for the Jews?

My answer was a mixed “Yes.” The first season, in which a rabbi ( Adam Brody ‘s Noah) falls for a shiksa podcaster ( Kristen Bell ‘s Joanne) — “shiksa” being the show’s oft-repeated preferred slur, not mine — aimed for laughter and swooning, but simultaneously took a serious-minded approach to interfaith relationships and a specific and detailed approach to Judaism. I appreciated that effort, especially in a television landscape in which any expression of religion, much less Jewishness, is decidedly rare.

When Erin Foster’s Netflix rom-com Nobody Wants This premiered last year, I discussed it through one of my favorite prisms

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