“You win… I hope it’s what you want,” a central character tells Kristen Bell’s Joanne, the agnostic, sex-positive podcaster, in the pivotal closing moments of the romcom series ‘Nobody Wants This’. It set the stage for the second season, which premiered this weekend.

Joanne and her charming rabbi boyfriend, Adam Brody’s Noah, are together despite the hurdles of an interfaith relationship. Being with a shiksa (a disparaging term for a non-Jewish girl) costs Noah his dream job of head rabbi. Joanne, too, makes sacrifices. She dresses up to impress his unapproving mother and pretends to like basketball. It is funny as it is universally resonant. Dating a man of God, she even entertains the idea of learning Hebrew and hosts Havdalah dinners.

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