{"id":94308,"date":"2025-10-22T13:19:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T13:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/94308\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T13:19:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T13:19:07","slug":"everybody-wants-this-how-a-netflix-rom-com-went-from-near-implosion-to-cultural-obsession","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/94308\/","title":{"rendered":"Everybody Wants This!: How a Netflix Rom-Com Went From Near Implosion to Cultural Obsession"},"content":{"rendered":"

There are the rare television shows that seem to sail through the various stages of production blissfully. They have writers rooms that are cohesive, producers who share a vision and distributors that are confident in what they\u2019re readying for release. On these shows, episodes typically come in on time and without significant issue, and the stars involved are primed for success.<\/p>\n

Nobody Wants This was not one of these shows.<\/p>\n

The Jewish rom-com, starring Kristen Bell<\/a> as an agnostic sex-and-relationship podcaster and Adam Brody<\/a> as a laid-back rabbi, spent the better part of last year mired in chaos. Production on season one had fallen woefully behind schedule, as whole episodes were scrapped, scripts were written at the eleventh hour and producers, including Bell, began second-guessing the series\u2019 tone.<\/p>\n

Photographed by Guy Aroch<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cThere were a lot of different visions,\u201d says Erin Foster<\/a>, who, as a first-time creator and showrunner,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There are the rare television shows that seem to sail through the various stages of production blissfully. They…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":94309,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[6946,6947,430,6948,156,434,4223,409,111,43,139,69,5436,417,437],"class_list":{"0":"post-94308","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-actors","9":"tag-actresses","10":"tag-celebrities","11":"tag-directors","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-films","14":"tag-hollywood","15":"tag-movies","16":"tag-new-zealand","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-newzealand","19":"tag-nz","20":"tag-stars","21":"tag-television","22":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94308\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}