Nobody Wants This Season 2 Episodes 4-6 Review: Valentine’s Day/Abby Loves Smoothies/Anything Can Happen

Repetition can become a safe space for popular shows. It worked the first time, so why fix it? Nobody Wants This falls into this trap during the middle half of Season 2.

Nobody Wants This Season 2 Episode 4, “Valentine’s Day,” Nobody Wants This Season 2 Episode 5, “Abby Loves Smoothies,” and Nobody Wants This Season 2 Episode 6, “Anything Could Happen,” are entertaining episodes, but overall showcase a problem with the season.

It doesn’t feel like it’s growing.

Noah and Joanne’s love story and relationship problems are so fundamental that the show doesn’t work without them. However, the problems feel a bit stale and repetitive.

Joanne’s fear about scaring Noah off remains a major topic. Her fear somewhat seems justified because of Noah’s religion being such a key part of his identity.

If she never decides to convert, their relationship may not make it. However, we could witness some new problems for them. Most of the new ones feel like extensions of the old ones.

For example, “Valentine’s Day” reveals Noah’s obsession with being the perfect boyfriend. It makes him come off as disingenuous. In Season 1, Joanne seems worried that Noah is too perfect compared to her own life.

This season, that concept expands by making Noah kind of less perfect. 

That’s been one of the interesting things about Nobody Wants This Season 2: it hasn’t made Noah look the best. It’s almost been a Noah takedown season. He isn’t awful, but he’s not the prince he seemed in Season 1.“Valentine’s Day” is further proof of it because treating every girlfriend the same way is insane behavior.

Joanne, in Season 1, is portrayed more as the mess of the pair, but Season 2 shows her as being a better partner than Noah — at least in the first six episodes. We’ll have to wait to see what the final four reveal.

Episodes like “Anything Can Happen” also show Noah being a bit manipulative. He hopes that Purim will lead to a spiritual awakening for Joanne and her picking Judaism.

It puts pressure on her.

Noah overall comes off as a wholesome, harmless dude. He is, but that doesn’t mean that some of his behavior isn’t cause for concern.

We’ll see if Nobody Wants This Season 2 continues to destroy the image of Noah as a perfect boyfriend further. Noah, not being perfect, makes him more human, but his red flags in “Valentine’s Day” and throughout the season have been interesting…

Despite the issues, Noah and Joanne remain the center that grabs you. We very much want them to work out, but their problems no longer seem arbitrary. They’re very real and possibly barriers to a happy ending.

The middle section of Nobody Wants This Season 2 entertains and reveals more of Joanne and Noah’s problems and the issues within the series.

We need a bit more growth with this concept, but Noah and Joanne’s charm remains as a pair.

Stray Thoughts

• I am still unclear on where this Sasha, Morgan, and Esther storyline plans to land.
• Morgan engaged to Dr. Andy is easy to predict but still fun to see play out.
• The few moments of Bina are never enough.
• I am also now warming to Morgan and Joanne’s parents. They’re fun and quirky.

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