Nobody Wants This on Netflix

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I feel like the only people who like this are not jewish.

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Anonymous wrote:I feel like the only people who like this are not jewish.

Amy Schumer posted that she loved it.

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Anonymous wrote:The Jewish tropes are ridiculous. When Bell's character shows up to the synagogue and camera zooms in on the woman playing Brody's mom I knew she was going to call her a shiksa before she spoke. And agree that the pushy women desperate to marry their daughters off to Brody were silly.

It was also INSANE when Brody's girlfriend digs up the engagement ring and just starts wearing it without talking to him and then tries to just force an engagement. This combined with the scene at the synagogue really rubs me the wrong way because it portrays all the Jewish women in his life as marriage-obsessed with no interest in romance and essentially justifies him doing something he knows will stir up a ton of trouble by pursing a relationship with a non-Jewish woman. It has "look what you made me do" vibes.

Having said all that I do enjoy the scenes between Brody and Bell and I actually do think this could be an interesting premise (without the broad Jewish tropes that are especially harsh towards Jewish women). It's a shame they went this route and betrays a really laziness -- this was the only way you could think of to make it funny. Lame.

I felt this way watching the Big Sick. It was mostly a good movie but the S Asian women the main character tried to date were all awful. A person can end up with someone of another background without it having to be about their own women sucking. It was lazy, disrespectful writing then and is here as well.

true. and also having been the non-Jewish partner myself for a long time, I’ve finally come to understand why Jewish culture prioritizes in-marriage. It really stems from the millenia-long history of intense marginalization. Judaism could never rely on people converting to survive because being a Jew was stigmatized. Conversely cultural and physical survival depended on a strong Jewish identity. The in-group pressure was strong. I dislike being mare to feel “other” as the non-Jew but I understand it.

That said Tova Feldsuh is hilarious as the mom. Her comment “that was a strange sermon” to Adam Brody was so 💯 what my Jewish immigrant MIL would say.

Tova as the Jewish mother is amazing, just as she was in Crazy Ex Girlfriend….

I am also adoring the female rabbi from camp. What a great role, and the actress nailed it.

Goyim here. I loved the female rabbi too - so there is at least one good Jewish woman depicted. If all female rabbis are like her, I may consider conversion!

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Anonymous wrote:Her bad hair is so distracting.

Girl, get some highlights, wash your greasy hair, and chop off at least 2.5-3 inches. You need height and volume.

Some of us will never have height or volume.

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Anonymous wrote:I feel like the only people who like this are not jewish.

I’m Jewish and enjoyed it.

Spoiler alert - the ending didn’t completely land right with me though. I don’t think it would have been as well received if he hadn’t been willing to forgo his faith for his relationship.

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Anonymous wrote:I feel like the only people who like this are not jewish.

Amy Schumer posted that she loved it.

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Anonymous wrote:I love it, binged over the weekend. My mid 40s daughter also loved it. We have no preconceived notions about Jewish people so it's all new to us, plus with the generally low quality of sit coms and rom coms we'll tolerate some stereotyping and stretches of reality.

Overall, A+

Then you must be the intended audience. This felt like a Jewish primer in different places. I have Jewish in-laws (not my direct in-laws, my DH was the product of an interfaith marriage) and I have learned a lot of small things from them. However, I knew what a shiksa, Shabbat, etc. were before ever being married. Defining everything felt pedantic.

Super cute though!

This was weird to me too. How do you live in a large coastal city and not know a lot of Jewish people and be familiar with some basic Yiddish and the central Jewish traditions. I am not Jewish and didn't marry in but I've been to plenty of Shabbat dinners and attended Jewish weddings and know what shiksa and goyim and other common yiddish words mean. Just like I also know what baby hairs are and some basic things about black hair care even though I've personally never needed that info for myself. I thought that this was just common knowledge if you live in a reasonably diverse community.

The Jewish population is 0.2% of the world and 1,8% in the US.
Its unreasonable to think that the remaining 98.2% of the US would be familiar with Yiddish words/phrases and traditions- exception would be dense enclaves in coastal cities but many of those enclaves are insular. Black people are 12.4% of the US population and there is more intermixing so yeahhhhh these are ridiculous comparisons.

She's from LA though. A girl raised in Sherman Oaks would have had some Jewish kids around. I think not hearing of shabbat or the word shalom is very very weird. Yiddish words not so much.

This. If she were from Oklahoma or Louisiana or New Mexico these plot points would have been believable. But it's pretty silly for a 40 yr old woman from LA who works *in media* to have what appears to be NO exposure to Jewish culture. It strains credulity.

This show is written for ignorant Gentiles who have never met a Jewish person (aka the majority of Americans).

Once you view the show through that lens, the continuity and credibility issues don’t really matter. And the show writers really plumb Jewish stereotypes for laughs.

The show reminds me of the Seinfeld episode where Jerry’s dentist converts to Judaism - “He did it only for the jokes!”

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Anonymous wrote:I read all the comments and no one has mentioned how Noah's parents are supposedly former Soviet Jews, yet seem more like L.A. Persians or Armenians. We don't call "banya" the shvitz (that's a Yiddish term used by Eastern Europeans), moms aren't as overbearing as Middle Eastern/Far Eastern Jewish (or otherwise) moms, and the accents are way wrong. Former Soviets don't tend to go into real estate, don't tend to be religious, etc. If you're going to stereotype, do it right, the parents should have been scientists or computer programmers.

Totally agree! The only thing they got right was the name “Sasha” for the brother — absolutely everything was way off.

Exactly. The back story was like soviet refuseniks but they seemed way more like Sephardic Jews. The design, the style of the house, etc.

My Jewish spouse saw Noah’s dad and was like “Is he Arab? I thought they were Russian Jews?”

The show is a mishmash of stereotypes meant to appeal to ignorant Gentiles. Lame.

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‘Nobody Wants This’ Pits Jewish Women Against ‘Shiksas.’ Nobody Wins. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/05/opinion/nobody-wants-this-jewish-gender.html?smid=nytcore-android-share

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Anonymous wrote:‘Nobody Wants This’ Pits Jewish Women Against ‘Shiksas.’ Nobody Wins. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/05/opinion/nobody-wants-this-jewish-gender.html?smid=nytcore-android-share

Geez, summarize it if it’s behind a paywall.

I wish everyone would just realize it’s a show with 1 Jewish guy who dumps his 1 Jewish girlfriend for a new girlfriend who happens to not be Jewish.

It’s not an indictment against Jewish women or non-Jewish women. Religion is just context for the plot.

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Anonymous wrote:‘Nobody Wants This’ Pits Jewish Women Against ‘Shiksas.’ Nobody Wins. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/05/opinion/nobody-wants-this-jewish-gender.html?smid=nytcore-android-share

Geez, summarize it if it’s behind a paywall.

I wish everyone would just realize it’s a show with 1 Jewish guy who dumps his 1 Jewish girlfriend for a new girlfriend who happens to not be Jewish.

It’s not an indictment against Jewish women or non-Jewish women. Religion is just context for the plot.

My feeling was that Erin Foster is a vain nepo baby with probably not the best values (don't know her mom, but her dad is clearly a piece of shit) So the characters, Jewish or not, reflect her own entourage and herself: self-absorbed, superficial, fickle, a little off. She thinks these people are fine, normal humans instead of mostly terrible.

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Anonymous wrote:I feel like the only people who like this are not jewish.

The former senior rabbi of Wilshire Boulevard Temple in Los Angeles is not Jewish? You should tell his family.

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Anonymous wrote:‘Nobody Wants This’ Pits Jewish Women Against ‘Shiksas.’ Nobody Wins. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/05/opinion/nobody-wants-this-jewish-gender.html?smid=nytcore-android-share

Geez, summarize it if it’s behind a paywall.

I wish everyone would just realize it’s a show with 1 Jewish guy who dumps his 1 Jewish girlfriend for a new girlfriend who happens to not be Jewish.

It’s not an indictment against Jewish women or non-Jewish women. Religion is just context for the plot.

My feeling was that Erin Foster is a vain nepo baby with probably not the best values (don't know her mom, but her dad is clearly a piece of shit) So the characters, Jewish or not, reflect her own entourage and herself: self-absorbed, superficial, fickle, a little off. She thinks these people are fine, normal humans instead of mostly terrible.

This. Also, here you go, gift link: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/05/opinion/nobody-wants-this-jewish-gender.html?unlocked_article_code=1.QE4.1cvk.-kKslv0UkCF1&smid=url-share

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Anonymous wrote:I feel like the only people who like this are not jewish.

The former senior rabbi of Wilshire Boulevard Temple in Los Angeles is not Jewish? You should tell his family.

I was pretty shocked when I found out he consulted because they missed the mark on so many very basic things. My thought after watching was "why didn't they ask a Jewish rabbi for some input?!"

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Jackie Tohn isn't Jewish, either? Who knew!



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