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WARNING: THIS VIDEO CONTAINS SPOILERS! 'Nobody Wants This' creator and executive producer Erin Foster and showrunner and executive producer Jenni Konner spoke to THR all about season two's most shocking moments, including what the future holds for Sasha and Esther, as well as Noah and Joanne. Plus, they revealed the plot point they disagreed on and the scene they had to reshoot after filming had wrapped, just to make sure they got it right. Season two of 'Nobody Wants This' is now streaming on Netflix.

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00:00There was a battle about, do they get engaged?

00:03A long...

00:03Okay, we survived it.

00:05We did. We made it through.

00:06But we weren't on the same side of it.

00:07Yeah.

00:08Hi, I'm Jenny Connor.

00:09I'm Erin Foster.

00:10We are here at the Hollywood Reporter cover shoot for Nobody Wants This Season 2.

00:15Woo!

00:22I definitely never set out to write a rom-com,

00:25but once it was absorbed for people as a rom-com,

00:28I think that the romance and the love and the togetherness

00:31is a really big part of what people love and enjoy,

00:34and so I'm not making an artistic choice to kill anybody off,

00:39you know, or find out no is cheating on her.

00:41Yet.

00:42Yet.

00:42Jenny wants to kill everyone off.

00:44I know.

00:44There was a battle about, do they get engaged?

00:47A long...

00:48Okay, we survived it.

00:49We did. We made it through.

00:50But we weren't on the same side of it.

00:52Yeah.

00:52We were against each other, and one of us won.

00:55And it was Jenny.

00:56Okay, it was Jenny.

00:59But we got through it.

01:00And are you excited now?

01:02And I'm very happy.

01:03I would have been happy either way.

01:05But I'm very happy.

01:06Disagree.

01:07And then the other battle was what to do with Sasha and Morgan's,

01:11you know, will they, won't they?

01:13Is there a romance?

01:14What is it?

01:15Is it a flirtation?

01:16How far does it go?

01:17Does it go anywhere?

01:18Does it go nowhere?

01:19That was something we really stressed about Season 1,

01:21and then also Season 2,

01:23trying to figure out how to clean it up properly.

01:24But we also wanted to really keep it grounded and real,

01:28so it wasn't a thing that just disappeared completely,

01:32which is why, you know, right at the beginning,

01:35Esther drags them into the bedroom and is like,

01:38what's happening?

01:39And we're putting a stop to it,

01:41which felt very Esther to us.

01:43In Season 1, it was going to go...

01:46It was going to go further.

01:48And then while we were in the process,

01:50it just didn't feel like it was tracking for us.

01:54Also, we really wanted to get Morgan and Sasha

01:57to be able to hang out in Season 2.

01:59Yeah.

02:00If they had gone too far,

02:02or if there was a lot of tension there,

02:03then we wouldn't be able to do that.

02:05The scene where Esther tells Joanne,

02:07like, you're Jewish,

02:09we shot, like, a month after we wrapped or something.

02:13I mean, I had already gone to the Bahamas.

02:14I was like, guys, I'm done.

02:15We did this.

02:16I went to the Bahamas,

02:17and then all of a sudden I'm getting a phone call.

02:18He is like us, peace.

02:19Literally, I was like, I'm on a boat with my family,

02:22with my phone turned off,

02:23and they're like, you have to rewrite that scene.

02:25So we shot that a month later,

02:26because it just didn't...

02:27It was such an important moment,

02:29and it wasn't right.

02:32We wanted to get it perfect,

02:33and so we shot it at a completely different location

02:35a month later, and it turned out great.

02:39But you would never know that it was shot separately,

02:42differently a month later,

02:43and at a completely different location.

02:45It was perfect.

02:45We really needed to do that.

02:47It turned into a much more emotional scene,

02:50and it tracked where they both were,

02:53and it was...

02:55We always had the idea that she...

02:57Esther would be the one to kind of pivot Joanne,

03:00but we didn't have such a sweet version.

03:03It was really nice.

03:04We really loved this idea that Esther becomes this person

03:08that brings her into the fold and welcomes her

03:10and says, you really are one of us.

03:12It felt like she was making herself so clear all season,

03:16and we loved this idea that Esther doesn't want to be Esther

03:19at Purim, and it was so symbolic

03:21that we really felt like, you know,

03:25we all have friends who've been married a long time.

03:27We're all married.

03:28We're thinking we know what it's like for people

03:30when you really get that itch,

03:32like there's something missing.

03:34You kind of do have to figure it out on your own a lot of times,

03:37and we love the idea of Sasha showing up as this really good guy

03:41and being like, I'll get out of your way

03:43so that you can figure that out.

03:46So it was always the goal,

03:47but there was some...

03:48Some people weren't on board

03:49and wanted us to sort of soften it a bit

03:52and make it, you know...

03:54Not final.

03:55Make it not final and vague,

03:56and for me personally,

03:57I just don't love when I'm watching a TV show

03:59and nothing happens.

04:00Like, I needed something definitive to happen.

04:03Yes.

04:04And who knows if they'll stay apart,

04:07be back together.

04:08Only we know.

04:10Exactly.

04:11There's a lot of happy accidents

04:12that happen in the writing, you know,

04:14where we were aiming for this thing

04:16and then it stood out to us,

04:18wait, this is so similar to the ending of season one.

04:21Are we just repeating ourselves?

04:22And then we thought, wait a second,

04:23no, we're doing it,

04:24but it's going to be in the reverse.

04:25She's going to run to him, you know,

04:28she's going to be trying to find him.

04:30She has this feeling that, you know,

04:33she has this big realization,

04:34and we really liked the idea

04:35that this would be a surprising, unexpected,

04:38I've already been here kind of energy.

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