The third season of Nobody Wants This has been officially greenlit — but is every cast member returning?
Netflix’s hit show, which premiered in September 2024, centered on the unlikely relationship between the outspoken, agnostic Joanne (Kristen Bell) and unconventional rabbi Noah (Adam Brody). After its inaugural season’s success, the show returned for a second season, which picked up after Joanne and Noah decided to give their unlikely romance a real shot.
After facing major ups and downs — mostly due to their differing faiths — Noah and Joanne broke up but were ultimately able to work things out when Noah realized Joanne was his person. Joanne, meanwhile, came to the conclusion that she could see herself converting.
“We wanted to end on romance, not religion,” creator Erin Foster told Tudum in October 2025 about the ending. “The romance is him saying, ‘I don’t care what you are, I’m choosing you.’ We don’t really need to hear her saying, ‘Oh, my God, you’re not going to believe this. I’ve been Jewish this entire time.’ Because we know that’s about to happen.”
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She added: “She’s trying so hard to see it that she can’t see it. She’s yearning for something to give her structure, purpose, boundaries, values and traditions. Judaism can give her all of those things. … She’s enjoying all these different things about Judaism,” said Foster. “But she keeps thinking God is going to just come down from the sky and be like, ‘And now you’re Jewish!’”
Before the show was renewed for season 3, the cast teased how Noah and Joanne are expected to be in a different place in their relationship.
“It’s not Noah against Joanne,” Bell told Tudum. “It’s Joanne and Noah against the problem, which I think is a great framework to come at any relationship with.”
Keep scrolling to see which Nobody Wants This characters are returning for season 3 — and which aren’t:
Kristen Bell
Bell is returning in season 3 after comparing Joanne and Noah’s relationship issues to some of the challenges she’s experienced with her own husband, Dax Shepard.
“Having someone I feel that is very opposite from me is certainly something that I feel,” she told People in October 2025. “I feel like my real-life husband and I are ‘opposites attract.’”
Bell noted that having opposite outlooks doesn’t automatically mean a relationship is doomed.
“But that doesn’t mean we couldn’t make it work, or didn’t want to make it work, ” she continued. “It just meant we did have to have a lot of patience for each other to figure out what the compromises would be, and a general understanding that we’re probably going to have different viewpoints on almost everything — and figure out a respectful way to have those discussions.”
Adam Brody
Brody was featured in the announcement video for season 3 after previously teasing the show’s future.
“In terms of the difference [between finales], I think it’s the same but more. They came together in the end of last season, like, ‘I’m committing to you,’” he told Entertainment Weekly. “And now they’ve gotten a much longer, more in-depth look at the difficulties and the compromises necessary of that and are still saying, all that aside, ‘I know what I’m getting into and I’m still doing it.’ So I think it’s a stronger commitment.”
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Justine Lupe
Lupe is returning as Joanne’s younger sister and podcast cohost in the next season of Nobody Wants This.
“I think Morgan is fighting so hard to feel OK and Joanne is fighting so hard to prove to Morgan that what she’s doing is not authentic that it creates a lot of tension between them,” she teased to The Hollywood Reporter in October 2025. “The whole thing is about caring about each other. Morgan caring about her relationship with Joanne changing, and Joanne caring about Morgan ruining her life because she’s jumping into something that is not gonna be good for her in the end.”
Timothy Simons
Simons’ character Sasha will be front and center in season 3, with the actor telling People in October 2025, “I think my advice for Sasha would be [do] what he’s doing, which is, don’t try to hold on too tight if [his wife] needs that. Give her space and let her figure it out. You can’t force somebody to be there.”
Jackie Tohn
After being promoted to a main cast member in season 2, Tohn will continue to bring Esther to life.
“I’d love to see Esther’s family. I’d love to meet her parents. There’s a lot of fun to be had there with who Esther’s mother is,” Tohn told The Hollywood Reporter. “There’s Bette Midler, Barbra Streisand, Fran Drescher, Susie Essman. I mean, there’s no shortage of incredible Jewish women to come in, and then that person makes Esther seem like a delicate flower. It would be so funny.”
