The success of Nobody Wants This seemed to take everyone by surprise last year, even its creators.

Maybe it shouldn’t have; the series teamed up millennially beloved TV stars Kristen Bell and Adam Brody for a light romantic comedy about a messy podcaster and a hot rabbi who unexpectedly fall for each other. But romantic comedy can be difficult to pull off in longer-form media, and subsequent word of behind-the-scenes chaos served as a reminder that creator and showrunner Erin Foster, who based the show’s premise on her own experiences with converting to her husband’s faith, was relatively green as a sitcom writer. And honestly, some signs of an underdeveloped show full of placeholders were there even before the news trickled out, semi-inexplicable Emmy nominations notwithstanding.

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