Let's chat: Will you be watching Netflix's new hot rabbi show?

🚨🚨🚨 ALERT! ALERT!! THE FIRST TRAILER FOR NETFLIX’S HOT RABBI SHOW STARRING ADAM BRODY IS HERE 🚨🚨🚨

We interrupt our regular programming to let you know that the first trailer of “Nobody Wants This,” the show we’ve all been dubbing as the “Netflix Hot Rabbi Show,” is here, and that the “hot rabbi” framing is here to stay because the words “hot” and “rabbi” are used together in this three-minute trailer twice.

If you, like me, had a crush on Seth Green from “The O.C.” as a teenager, this series starring Adam Brody as Rabbi Noah, who falls in love with Joanne (Kristen Bell), a very nice non-Jewish girl, already means a lot to you. For me, that’s only magnified by the facts that I am also a huge “The Good Place” fan, am obsessed with the musical numbers of Tovah Feldshuh, who plays another rageful Jewish mother in this show, and that I love “GLOW” and Jackie Tohn who plays the hot rabbi’s sister-in-law in this trailer (yes, she is named after Esther, another badass Jewish woman). Basically my cup runneth over, and I’ve not even seen five minutes of this show.

A few other things that I love about this trailer: Brody wearing a tallis 🥰. Brody wearing a cheesy t-shirt that says “Matzah Ballers” along with his JCC basketball team 😍. Brody wearing a (hot) priest costume and holding a whip in a local sex shop 😳 where he meets some of his congregants 😱.

All of us looking at Adam Brody in a kippah and a tallis the way Kristen is.

Some things that concern me about this trailer: Tovah Feldshuh as, once again, an overbearing Jewish mom. This trope feels so, so tired in this year of our lord 2024. The men in Noah’s life saying that they don’t get to have fun, meaning maybe that dating Jewish girls isn’t fun — again, this trope is stale and moldy like an old lunchbox you’ve forgotten about. Esther being framed as an angry Jewish woman who calls Joanne and her sister “whores” (though again, I love seeing Tohn in this trailer and hoping for the best).

I really want “Nobody Wants This” to be good, and I am feeling mostly optimistic but also a little concerned. (Also, if you want to find out a little more about what this show is based on, you can read my piece about it on Kveller.) The show comes out on September 26 and so I need to know: Will you be watching? Are you more excited than concerned or more concerned than excited? Let me know in the comments!