‘Nobody Wants This’ Season 3 Review: Joanne and Noah Finally Share a Home and a Whole New Set of Problems

After two seasons of will they or won’t they, ‘Nobody Wants This‘ Season 3 arrives on Netflix on October 22 with its central couple finally settled in the same place. Erin Foster’s series began in September 2024 and earned three Emmy nominations for its first season, following Joanne, a podcaster played by Kristen Bell, and Noah, a rabbi played by Adam Brody. The question this time is not whether they belong together, it is whether they can survive sharing a bathroom.

Moving in together gives the season its comic engine. The early episodes are packed with small domestic friction, from morning routines to who owns which corner of the house, and the writers find real laughs in how a loving relationship can still grate. Bell and Brody stopped needing to prove their chemistry a long time ago, and they play the new closeness with an ease that makes even a petty argument feel lived in.

What impressed me most is how much the show finally trusts everyone around them. Sasha and Esther’s separation sends both of them into unfamiliar territory, and Jackie Tohn is handed material that lets Esther feel like a full person with her own wants. Justine Lupe’s Morgan steps forward on the podcast, and her sparring with Timothy Simons gives the season some of its sharpest scenes.

The writing also seems more willing to let the central romance move forward instead of circling the same obstacle. Season two kept putting up roadblocks that felt familiar, while this one reaches for the next chapter of the relationship, including big commitments and the logistics of joining two very different families. A few surprise guest appearances keep things lively without stealing focus from the leads.

It is not flawless. Some of the major milestones arrive so quickly that I wanted a beat to sit in them, and now and then a conflict feels manufactured just to keep an episode humming. The old habit of turning a small misunderstanding into a full blown crisis still sneaks in, and it works against the warmth the show does so well.

Still, the best scenes rely on the thing this series has always done best, which is characters who say the wrong thing and then have to deal with it. Nobody here is perfect, and the show lets people apologize, backtrack and try again. That generosity keeps the comedy from curdling into cruelty.

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Overall, I found this a warm, funny and surprisingly confident return that gives its leads something new to play and its supporting cast room to breathe. A little more patience in the pacing would have made it even better, but I was smiling for most of the run. I give ‘Nobody Wants This’ Season 3 8 out of 10.

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