Five Netflix series to watch while you wait for ‘Nobody Wants This’
There is irony in the name of Nobody Wants This because, speaking for the viewers, everyone wants it. Jokes apart, the second season of Nobody Wants This finally let Joanne and Noah behave like two people in love rather than opposing sides in a bad negotiation.
After spending what felt like forever tiptoeing around the conversion issue, Joanne chose Judaism on her own terms just as Noah realised he wanted her regardless, and frankly, that whole thing had dragged on long enough.
We finally have a third season approaching us on October 22nd, and this time the headache is rather more domestic because they are moving in together.
Lovely in theory, obviously, but we all know cohabitation is where romance starts tripping over wet towels and toilet seats are left up. Elsewhere, Sasha and Esther are single again, while Sasha and Morgan are still playing whatever game that is.
So, fancy more romantic muddles while you wait for the next season of Nobody Wants This? These five Netflix shows should do nicely.
Five Netflix series to watch while you wait for Nobody Wants This
Feel Good (2020–2021)
There were plenty of awkward moments in Nobody Wants This, and clearly they were hilarious to watch, but if that’s what about it appealed to you, you’re in the right place with Feel Good, as it instantly makes things awkward, which, to be fair, is half the fun. Mae Martin plays a version of themself, a Canadian comic in London who falls for George, and for a minute all of it looks quite sweet.
Then George starts struggling with being open about dating a woman, and if that isn’t enough, Mae’s past with addiction returns. The idea of easy romance… Yeah, forget it. The thing is, they are very good together, which almost makes this situation worse because you can see why they keep trying even when it is clear neither of them has a clue what they are doing.
Oh, and an entertaining surprise is Lisa Kudrow as Mae’s mother, who, Christ, does not exactly make life easier. One bad conversation leads to another, and lots of feelings get hurt. You better pace yourself for this one.
Master of None (2015–2021)
Master of None is one of those shows where everything seems fine until our protagonist Dev starts thinking too much, and then, well, there goes the evening. Aziz Ansari plays Dev Shah, an actor in New York trying to work out dating and whether the person next to him is someone he actually wants to build a life with. You know, nice light stuff, quite relatable.
The early seasons stick with Dev, but season three moves over to Denise and Alicia’s marriage, and that change works because the show has always been more interested in what happens once the flirting wears off.
That is the best part here. You see, the latest season of Nobody Wants This is focusing on the same things as what happens when the honeymoon phase wears off. Guess you can find something similar in Master of None.
Survival of the Thickest (2023–)
Mavis Beaumont catches her boyfriend cheating, and, well, there goes that relationship. It’s a bit of a nightmare, obviously, but she does not spend the rest of the Survival of the Thickest moping about like the world has ended, which already makes her more fun to watch than half the people in romantic comedies.
Michelle Buteau plays Mavis, a New York stylist who suddenly has to sort her career out on her own and get back into dating without falling into the same old rubbish. And you can see why she works so well here, because she is not interested in changing herself into some goodie-two-shoes.
She still wants love, of course, but it’s not like some grand prize at the end of the road for her. If it fits into her life, brilliant. If it starts taking over the whole bloody thing, then, yeah, she is not having it.
The Four Seasons (2025–)
If Mavis is figuring out how to start over, The Four Seasons is what happens when people who thought they had everything sorted realise, oops, maybe not.
Created by Tina Fey, Lang Fisher and Tracey Wigfield, the series follows three married couples who keep taking holidays together until one marriage falls apart and the whole group starts looking at their own relationships a little… Differently. Sort of when Sasha and Ester had the same experience.
You see, these are not people wondering whether to commit like Joanne and Noah; they are already miles past that point and finding out that love can change with time. Bit sobering, yes, but also very funny when your closest friends are there to see the relationship snap.
Uncoupled (2022)
In the end, we have Uncoupled, where things actually come to an end, and that’s how the show starts. Neil Patrick Harris plays Michael Lawson, a Manhattan real estate broker whose partner Colin leaves after 17 years together, and soon, he finds himself back in the dating world with absolutely no idea what the rules are anymore.
Apps, strangers, first dates – all the stuff he thought he had escaped years ago is waiting for him with open arms. Hey, it kind of sounds like Joanne’s dad, doesn’t it?
The Sex and the City DNA is hard to miss, but the show gets more interesting when we watch Michael trying to work out who he is without the relationship he thought would last. Harris does not play him like some tragic abandoned saint either, which helps. Barney Stinson is still there somewhere; it’s just that he is hurt and out of practice.