Another season, another quick renewal for Nobody Wants This. Netflix has ordered a third season of the popular romantic comedy, starring Kristen Bell and Adam Brody, to premiere in 2026. The news comes 12 days after the series, created by Erin Foster, released its 10-episode second season on Oct. 23.
In its first 11 days, Season 2 has amassed 18M views globally, ranking #1 on Netflix’s Global English TV list for two straight weeks and reaching the Top 10 in 82 countries. While that is below the Season 1 delivery of 26.2M views in the first 11 days, it is still a strong showing for a comedy series, especially since the second season of Nobody Wants This did not feature big relationship milestones. Following the eventful first season, in which Joanne (Bell) and Noah (Brody) met, fell in love and briefly broke up before reuniting, Season 2 followed the natural course of a relationship by largely chronicling the duo’s efforts to blend their lives together.
After mostly “threading water” in Season 2, the series’ pace is poised to pick up in Season 3 as Joanne is headed to a likely conversion, as hinted in the finale.
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Season 2 of Nobody Wants This also did what Netflix brass want to see — it brought Season 1 back into the Top 10 list at #7 for the week of Oct. 27. With that return, Season 1 has now spent 8 total weeks in the top 10 and reached the top 10 in 89 countries.
On Luminate’s Top 50 U.S Streaming Viewership weekly chart for Oct. 24-30, which measures total hours watched, Nobody Wants This was #1 by a mile with 21.9M hours despite its shorter runtime as a half-hour comedy; Season 2 was #14 (3.6M).
“I couldn’t be more excited to head into a third season of this show,” Foster said. “It is a privilege to be able to write about my favorite couple on a scale like this. As long as it doesn’t take too much time away from me watching reality TV at night, I’ll do it for as long as they want me to!”
Unlike the Season 2 renewal of Nobody Wants This, which came 14 days after the series debut, the Season 3 pickup does not come with a showrunner change. Jenni Konner and Bruce Eric Kaplan, who joined after Season 1, are continuing as co-showrunners, and the series also will continue to film in Los Angeles.
“We are so grateful to Netflix and 20th for giving us another season of Nobody Wants this,” Konner and Kaplan said. “This job is criminally fun. Working with the uniquely gifted Erin Foster, this unbelievable cast of talented, hilarious pros, amazing writers, and incredible crew has been a truly great experience. Go Dodgers!”
Erin Foster and Sara Foster executive produce through their Fatigue Sisters Productions alongside Konner, Kaplan, Steven Levitan, Bell, Danielle Stokdyk, Jeff Morton, Nora Silver and 3 Arts’ Oly Obst. The series is produced by 20th Television.
In addition to Bell and Brody, the main cast of Nobody Wants This includes Justine Lupe, Timothy Simons and Jackie Tohn.
The theme of Season 2 is “first comes love, then comes life.” The last time we saw agnostic podcast host Joanne (Bell) and unconventional (hot) rabbi Noah (Brody), their unmatched chemistry surprised everyone in their lives, including her sister Morgan (Lupe), his brother Sasha (Simons) and sister-in-law Esther (Tohn), and even themselves. Their spark proved stronger than all of the obstacles trying to keep them apart. Now they’re back, and fully committed to merging their lives –– and loved ones — together. But their differences still exist and can’t be ignored. The challenge now is not just falling in love against all odds, but staying together in spite of them.