00:00Critics and fans slam LAME, Season 2 of Nobody Wants This, amid Kristen Bell controversy, hopeless cringe.
00:09It's not a good week for Kristen Bell.
00:11Her Netflix series Nobody Wants This faces backlash due to a disappointing second season that critics and fans claim lacks the spark of the first.
00:21The show initially charmed with its sharp writing and chemistry between leads Joanne, Bell, and Noah, Adam Brody, but many say that the magic has vanished.
00:30The Hollywood Reporter's TV critic Daniel Feinberg wrote that Season 2 is more of the same, with the interfaith couple leaping past the honeymoon phase of their relationship.
00:40It just helps for your characters to have other things to do, in addition to falling in and out of love.
00:45Otherwise, a distinct risk of repetition and exhaustion sets in, Feinberg writes.
00:51Brody and Bell are left playing often identical beats of uncertainty and insecurity to the ones that worked well in the first season.
00:57In the process, the chemistry and overall appeal dwindled dramatically, he added.
01:03USA Today's Kelly Lawler was even more blunt, writing that,
01:06The new season of Nobody Fizzles That Spark, right back into nothingness.
01:10Its quirky characters have jumped the shark into cartoonish annoyance, its plots gone from heightened to outlandish, and worst of all, it has lost the palpable romance that was the crux of the series' appeal, Lawler wrote.
01:24All that's left is some hopeless, cringe, stunt guest stars, and unfunny jokes.
01:29But perhaps the biggest sin of Nobody Season 2, at least in the first five episodes made available for review,
01:36is that it completely lacks the effervescent romance, that magical chemistry between Brody and Bell, that made the first season so irresistible.
01:45Issues from Season 1 remain unresolved, diminishing the once-vibrant dynamic.
01:50The drama becomes contrived and silly, making their relationship unconvincing.
01:54Fans also echoed the disappointment online, taking to X, formerly Twitter, and Reddit to Vent.
02:02One X user wrote that the show's sophomore season is somehow both boring and obnoxious,
02:08while another said, Season 2 of Nobody Wants This is a letdown.
02:13Noah and Joanne, are they even compatible?
02:15Meanwhile, Esther, Sasha, and Morgan's stories are actually fun and engaging.
02:20At the moment, however much of a romantic I might be, and I really am,
02:26this whole let's talk it out, we can conquer everything because we are in love
02:30and that wins out thing is driving me nuts, they explained.
02:34Others deemed Season 2 lame with Bell's Joanne now a whiny pain.
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