Nobody Wants This renewed for season two: Can the new showrunners fix the show's biggest problem?

Following its success on Netflix, the streaming service has renewed Nobody Wants This for a second season. The comedy series following Kristen Bell's Joanne and Adam Brody's Noah portrayed the unlikely romance between an agnostic woman and a Rabbi.

While the show was a success among fans, in part because of Kristen Bell and Adam Brody's chemistry, the show could not outrun the series of criticisms surrounding the problematic Jewish stereotypes portrayed by the supporting female characters.

Season two will also be led by new showrunners Bruce Eric Kaplan and Jenni Konner, with series creator Erin Foster serving as executive producer. Can Jenni Konner and Bruce Eric Kaplan alter the show following the backlash fans had about the Jewish stereotypes?

Even with the Netflix show's best performances and quirky one-liners, it could not escape the troubling shadow it fell under due to Noah's overbearing mother, Bina, or his far too involved sister-in-law, Esther.

Bina and Esther are meant to be obstacles in the way of Noah and Joanne's brewing romance. But the way the series goes about it makes them borderline unwatchable at times. While Joanne has a few amusing moments with Bina and Esther, Nobody Wants This refuses to allow that development to stay, ultimately reverting Esther and Bina back to being villains because the series wants obstacles in the way of Joanne and Noah's already existing struggle to determine what a long-lasting romance between them looks like.

Nobody Wants This, in an attempt to keep things light, also mostly avoided divulging to Joanne the truth about how converting to Judaism to be a Rabbi's partner, or potential wife, would alter her lifestyle. As to not scare her, Noah stayed on the more light-hearted aspects of Judaism, but did not go deeper into detail, such as how Joanne's life would be expected to change to match an Orthodox Jewish household.

Joanne's own attempt to look up what it would mean for her life is played off in one scene as a joke toward the conclusion of the season.

Season one did move a bit fast, having Noah meet, fall in love with Joanne, and suggest her conversion to Judaism all within the span of ten episodes. While the pacing choice was meant to add stakes and consequences to their relationship, it is not realistic that anyone would ask such a serious thing of their partner after only a few weeks or months without describing, in-depth, what they would be getting into.

While season two can not undo the pacing, season one already concludes with the suggestion that Noah has chosen Joanne over his dreams of being Head Rabbi. But can it put an end to the use of negative Jewish stereotypes?

Other mainstream shows with Jewish central characters, such as Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, focus on a Jewish main character and reference Jewish culture without going the extra mile and relying too much on negative stereotypes.

Season two's new showrunners have the chance to keep the best parts of the show while changing the aspects that held Nobody Wants This back.