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Shows Like Nobody Wants This for Your Next Romcom
By Jordan A. · · 5 min read
Nobody Wants This returns for its third season on Netflix on October 22, 2026, with Kristen Bell and Adam Brody back as Joanne and Noah, the podcaster and the rabbi who somehow keep making it work. If you binged the first two seasons and now have a month to fill, the good news is that smart, grown-up romantic comedy is having a moment.
The trick with a show like this is chemistry plus honesty. It is funny, but the couple actually talks like adults, and the conflicts feel real instead of manufactured. Here are the shows that scratch the same itch, and where to watch them.
What Nobody Wants This gets right
The Bell and Brody pairing is the whole engine. The show is less about will-they-won't-they and more about two people who clearly want each other trying to fit their lives together anyway. That specific tension, love that has to survive real logistics, is what the picks below share. None of them coast on cute alone.
You're the Worst, for love with teeth
If you want the anti-romcom romcom, You're the Worst is it. Two self-destructive people fall for each other and spend five seasons trying not to blow it up. It is sharp, mean when it needs to be, and quietly one of the most honest shows ever made about depression and commitment. All five seasons stream on Hulu. Warmer than it sounds, funnier than it has any right to be.
Catastrophe, for the fast-forward version
Sharon Horgan and Rob Delaney wrote and star in Catastrophe, about two people who barely know each other, get pregnant after a week-long fling, and decide to give it a real go. The dialogue moves at a hundred miles an hour and lands every joke. Four short seasons on Prime Video, easy to finish in a couple of nights. If you like the adult, no-nonsense banter of Nobody Wants This, this is your show.
Love, for the messy early days
Judd Apatow's Love follows Gus and Mickey through the awkward, uneven start of a relationship where both people are a bit of a wreck. It is patient in a way most romcoms are not, sitting in the discomfort of two flawed people figuring out if they are good for each other. Three seasons on Netflix, so it lines up neatly with your Nobody Wants This account.
A few more for the queue
Once the big three are done, these keep the streak going.
- Starstruck (HBO Max): Rose Matafeo plays a woman who hooks up with a famous actor and has no idea how to handle it. Short, bright, very funny.
- Shrinking (Apple TV): more dramedy than romcom, but the same warm, talky energy. We wrote about shows like Shrinking if that is your lane.
- Crashing (Netflix): Phoebe Waller-Bridge before Fleabag, a scrappy ensemble comedy about young people and bad decisions.
Best watched together
Here is the thing about Nobody Wants This. It is a couch show, ideally watched with someone you can nudge during the good parts. All of the picks above work the same way, which is why they are perfect for a night in with your partner. If you want more built for two, our cozy couple night in watchlist and our guide to the best romance shows of 2026 are stocked for exactly that.
Two more the algorithm keeps hiding
The romcom well runs deeper than the famous few, and a couple of these deserve a spot before you loop back to rewatching Nobody Wants This. Lovesick on Netflix follows a young man forced to revisit every ex after an awkward diagnosis, and it turns a grim setup into one of the sweetest, most rewatchable shows on the service. Please Like Me is the Australian gem that folds romance, family, and mental health together with a light touch nobody expects going in, and it holds up beautifully years later. Neither got the audience it deserved on release, which makes them perfect discoveries now.
What ties this whole list together is a refusal to treat love as simple. Nobody Wants This works because Joanne and Noah face real obstacles, a faith gap, meddling families, careers that do not fit together neatly, and they keep choosing each other anyway. Every pick here does the same thing. They are funny because the people feel real, and they land because the stakes are recognizable. That is the whole difference between a romcom you forget by morning and one you end up quoting for years.
Make it a proper night in
The best way to watch any of these is together, phones down, one episode that quietly becomes three. Save the heavier prestige dramas for solo nights and let these carry your evenings with someone. They are low-commitment and high-reward, easy to pause for a snack run and easy to pick back up. The comedy keeps things loose, the romance keeps you both invested, and nobody ends the night annoyed that they wasted two hours on the wrong pick. Line one up, get comfortable, and let the banter do the work while you wait for Joanne and Noah to come back.
Picking something you will both actually enjoy is the hard part, and it is where most date nights stall out. BingeNext looks at what you have both liked before and finds the show that fits the two of you, across every service you subscribe to. Find something to watch together and skip the twenty-minute argument over the remote.
Topics covered: nobody wants this, romantic comedy shows, kristen bell, adam brody, date night tv
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About the author
Jordan A., Founder, BingeNext
Jordan A. is the founder of BingeNext and is responsible for every guide published on this site. He built the recommendation engine after one too many nights lost to the streaming menu. Dates, season counts and where-to-watch details in these guides are checked against official sources before publishing, and corrections are welcome at Jordan@Bingenext.com.