Nobody Wants This Season 3 on Netflix: Move-In, New Faces and All 10 Episode Titles
Joanne and Noah start the season together for the first time. Here is what changes, who just joined the cast, and every episode waiting for you.
Joanne and Noah are back as of this morning, and for once they aren’t breaking up in the premiere. All 10 episodes of Nobody Wants This Season 3 arrived on Netflix at once on Thursday, Oct. 22, with Kristen Bell and Adam Brody’s couple doing something the show has never let them do: start a season already together, and moving into a house.
When is it out, and how long is the binge?
It’s out now. The season dropped at 12 a.m. PT / 3 a.m. ET, it’s only on Netflix (a paid subscription is required), and there’s no weekly rollout to keep track of. Episodes run about half an hour each, so the full season is roughly five hours of television — one long evening, or a comfortable weekend — and the premiere lands almost exactly a year after Season 2, with the first two seasons streaming on Netflix if the details of that finale have blurred.
What is different this season?
“We didn’t have to do any more ‘Will they, won’t they?’ We know they are going to, and it was sort of, ‘How are they going to?'” co-showrunner Jenni Konner told Netflix’s Tudum. After recommitting at the end of Season 2, Joanne and Noah move in together, and the season follows the firsts that come with building a shared life. Co-showrunner Bruce Eric Kaplan told Tudum the writers wanted the couple “settling in and having fun” after two seasons of ups and downs.
Joanne’s conversion, the issue that nearly ended the relationship, hasn’t been resolved off-screen. She’s working through it in an Intro to Judaism class this season, and that classroom is where a good share of the new cast enters the story.
Where did Season 2 leave everyone?
Joanne’s hesitation about converting drove the couple apart in Season 2; they broke up, then found their way back to each other in the finale, with Joanne deciding to convert for herself rather than for Noah. Creator Erin Foster described the thinking to Tudum: “We wanted to end on romance, not religion.”
Sasha and Esther’s marriage is over — Esther ended it to focus on herself — so Timothy Simons and Jackie Tohn both play characters dating again this season. Morgan’s engagement to her therapist, Dr. Andy, also fell apart. Justine Lupe’s storyline this year runs the other direction: Morgan’s podcast career is taking off while her sister settles down.
Who is back, and who is new?
Bell, Brody, Lupe, Simons and Tohn all return. Sarah Silverman plays Rabbi Eden, the class’s teacher; Andrew Rannells is Sebastien, a classmate who becomes Joanne’s nemesis; and Keyla Monterroso Mejia plays Amber, another classmate. The guest list runs to Avan Jogia as Travis, Poorna Jagannathan as Eleanor, Sadie Sandler as Denise, Stephanie Koenig as Poppy and Steven Weber as Julian.
The cameo getting the most attention is Foster herself, appearing on screen in her own show for the first time as Nicole, a character Netflix describes as Joanne if everything had gone wrong. Foster, who based the series on her own relationship and conversion, put it this way: “Nicole really represents this sort of single, scatterbrained, crazy version that Joanne used to see herself as.”
All 10 Season 3 episode titles
- Episode 1: “It’s Perfect”
- Episode 2: “Daddy’s Home”
- Episode 3: “Housewarming”
- Episode 4: “The Wedding Planners”
- Episode 5: “Brian’s Wedding”
- Episode 6: “Heatwave”
- Episode 7: “May I Have This Dance?”
- Episode 8: “Watch What Happens”
- Episode 9: “Last Christmas”
- Episode 10: “I Jew”
All 10 episodes are streaming now on Netflix.
