Nobody Wants This – Season 1 Episode 2 Recap & Review

A Shiksa Walks Into A Temple

Episode 2 of Nobody Wants This starts back at the temple. Noah’s mum does not approve of her son’s choice, calling Joanne a shiksa and asking a bunch of questions. Noah just wants to head out and see Joanne but he’s bombarded by different attendees so he’s delayed.

Outside, Morgan rings and points out that they need to rebrand the podcast for Spotify. Noah is desperate to get out but Morgan convinces Joanne to leave before they meet. Morgan is prickly about the whole endeavour, while we also meet Sasha, Noah’s older brother here. He’s pretty eccentric and he decides to tag along for impromptu drinks.

When Joanne connects her phone to the dashboard, it reads out her text messages which happen to be discussing Noah’s Jewishness. Naturally, humour ensues.

At the bar, the girls learn what a shiksa is, while Morgan lays into Sasha at the jukebox. She’s pretty shocked that he’s married. As for Noah and Joanne, they discuss the podcast and start sharing secrets.

Well, until Esther (Sasha’s wife) shows and demand Noah and Sasha get back in the car. Unfortunately, she also brings up how Noah is actually engaged (or at least almost engaged). Ah yes, the misunderstanding trope.

Back home, there’s a little intervention as Noah’s fam warn him over getting involved with Joanne. However, Joanne believes her podcast is about more than sex. Morgan and Joanne fall out over this but to be honest, the ties between them are what’s selling the podcast.

Noah decides to try and fix things with Joanne, and they agree to head out for dinner as friends. Noah explains his relationship with Rebecca, including how psycho she is. With this cleared up, Noah points out how Joanne opening up on her podcast actually helped him earlier in the episode with a young couple needing advice with their marriage.

The pair do eventually kiss goodbye after going their separate ways. However, Rebecca ends up ringing constantly, forcing Noah to pick up and ask if she’s okay.

The Episode Review

So we’re two episodes in and we’ve got past the misunderstanding trope, the romantic tension and it seems these two are on board for their romance. It’s actually a bit annoying how fast things are moving, as it would have been nice to drag out these ties for a bit before diving into their whirlwind romance.

Still, the chemistry between the leads is good and although the supporting characters are quite barebones, there’s enough in this to stick with for the time being.