I really wanted to love the new Netflix romcom, but the way it portrays its female characters was a real turn off
Adam Brody and Kristen Bell star in Nobody Wants This. Photo: Netflix
Let me start off by saying that I really wanted to love Nobody Wants This, the new Netflix romcom that social media is going bananas for. I wanted to fawn over it, and adore it in all its flawless, funny glory. As someone who has forever cited Seth Cohen as their dream man – I’ve literally written his name down on manifestation boards – I can say quite confidently that my hopes truly could not have been higher.
In the show, everyone’s favourite OC heartthrob is all grown up. And he’s just as hot, funny and neurotic as he was back in Orange County. Except this time, he’s a rabbi – one with an alarming amount of emotional maturity, self-awareness, and that key thing all slightly chaotic, Jewish single women like me are yearning for: tolerance.
