Warning: This review contains spoilers for Nobody Wants This Season 3.

By its third season, Nobody Wants This has already put Noah and Joanne through two seasons of breaking up, getting back together and wondering whether they could actually make the relationship work. This time, they finally get to move past that. They are together, they have made it through the biggest hurdles, and Season 3 starts with them taking the next step and moving in together.

Thankfully, the show does not immediately find another reason to split them up. Instead, it lets Noah and Joanne figure out what being a real couple actually looks like day to day, from living together and getting on each other’s nerves to making bigger decisions about their future. There are still arguments, awkward moments and plenty of differences between them, but the constant question of whether they can make the relationship work is no longer hanging over every episode.

That change suits the show. Kristen Bell and Adam Brody are still incredibly easy to watch together, and there is something quite lovely about seeing Joanne and Noah get to enjoy being a couple after everything the first two seasons put them through. Their relationship now has to deal with the smaller things too, from Joanne leaving cupboards open and destroying Noah’s idea of an organised kitchen to discovering how much space two people actually need when living together. The stakes might not always be huge, but the chemistry is still there, and letting them be happy for more than five minutes is honestly a relief.

Joanne’s decision to move forward with converting to Judaism also gives the season another side of her relationship with Noah to explore. It takes her into a part of his life she has spent much of the series standing outside of, and although the storyline is still played with plenty of humour, it also shows that she is taking their future seriously. It gives their relationship somewhere new to go and lets the season spend more time on what building a life together actually looks like for them.

Morgan and Sasha Finally Get Their Moment

With Noah and Joanne in a more stable place, more of the romantic tension shifts towards Morgan and Sasha, and that is probably the smartest choice the season makes.

Justine Lupe has always been one of the funniest people in Nobody Wants This, and Morgan remains wonderfully selfish, petty and completely capable of making almost any situation about herself. Timothy Simons is equally good as Sasha, whose slightly ridiculous personality has always made his scenes with Morgan some of the most entertaining in the show. There has been something between them for a long time, and Season 3 finally has the space to actually deal with it.

Sasha and Esther are now separated, which changes the dynamic considerably and allows his friendship with Morgan to move into much more obvious will-they-won’t-they territory. Lupe and Simons have great chemistry and, arguably, even more of that new-romance spark this season. We love Bell and Brody together and they still absolutely ooze chemistry, but Morgan and Sasha have that slightly messier, more unpredictable energy that makes their scenes really fun to watch.

The one person who does get a little lost in all of this is Esther. Jackie Tohn is still brilliant, and after everything Sasha and Esther have been through, it would have been nice to spend a bit more time with her as she adjusts to their split. She does get her own storyline, but at points it feels like the show is rushing past her side of things to focus on Morgan and Sasha.

The Williams Sisters Are Still a Mess

Some of the funniest parts of the season continue to come from Joanne and Morgan together, especially because neither of them is suddenly transformed into a completely different person just because their lives are changing.

Morgan gets a bigger storyline with her career this season, while Joanne is starting to realise that being cynical about love does not really fit her life anymore. The show still lets both sisters be selfish and irritating, and sometimes they absolutely are, but there is also more awareness of what those behaviours actually do to the people around them.

Lupe continues to steal huge chunks of the series whenever Morgan is on screen. She can make even the pettiest line funny, but there is more happening underneath that this season too, particularly as Morgan starts dealing with changes in both her career and personal life.

Season 3 Is Still an Easy Binge

Not everything in Season 3 has the same momentum. There are a couple of episodes in the middle where not a huge amount actually happens, and some of the side stories are stronger than others. At times, you can tell the show is still working out what comes next now that Noah and Joanne are finally together. But the episodes fly by, the cast is great and the Los Angeles setting remains gorgeous, so even the weaker storylines never drag for long. It also helps enormously that this season actually makes progress rather than sending Noah and Joanne back around the same circle again.

For CultureCues, we really enjoyed Season 3. Noah and Joanne are still the reason we fell in love with the show in the first place, so finally getting to watch them actually build a life together rather than spend another season wondering whether they should be together was exactly what we wanted. Kristen Bell and Adam Brody are brilliant together, Justine Lupe continues to be hilarious, and Morgan and Sasha give the season another relationship to get invested in. It does lose a little of the excitement that came with meeting these characters for the first time, and not every storyline hits quite as well, but this is still such an easy, funny show to watch. Season 3 might be a little more grown up, but we are absolutely still in love with it. Nobody wants this? We certainly do.

CultureCues Rating: ★★★★☆ (4/5)

Nobody Wants This Season 3 is streaming now on Netflix.