Hello hot Rabbi! Why Nobody Wants This is the TV romcom we can't stop watching | TV comedy

If you're looking for a modern romantic comedy that will make you laugh and make you feel embarrassingly gooey inside, then do yourself a favor: cancel your plans and binge Netflix's Nobody Wants This.

Based on author Erin Foster's experiences, it's about a new relationship between outspoken sex podcaster Joanne (Kristen Bell) and pot-smoking rabbi Noah (Adam Brody), who neither understand nor want their families. Cue 10 more episodes that tell a classic will-they-won't-they story – and believe me, by the end you really hope they will.

It has all the crucial ingredients: Joanne and Noah have a lust for each other from the moment they meet, sparking real, funny chemistry, but the obstacle in the way of love – the key to every great romantic comedy – is, that he wants to be the head rabbi, Noah has to marry a Jewish woman.

This is just the beginning. The supporting cast is hilarious. Succession's Justine Lupe plays her best role yet, stealing every scene as Joanne's razor-sharp bigger sister and podcast co-host Morgan. Snarky comments about dating abound: “She broke her wrist to get attention. It was a step at a very high level. I respect it,” Joanne says of Noah's ex. And scenes like the podcast research trip to a sex shop will make you cackle like a witch brewing a love potion: “Grab the biggest butt plug you can find!” Noah calls out to Joanne , while waving around a vibrator called “The Obliterator.” “Rabbi Roklov?” asks a synagogue donor who has just come in.

The greatest gift, however, is Brody in his most endearing role since he captured the hearts of millennial teens as Seth Cohen on The OC. Hello, hot Rabbi!

“You call him Hot Rabbi? “Oh my God, this makes me so proud,” Joanne says to a group of teenage girls at a camp. One admits that she pretended to suffocate so he would perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation. “Genius,” Joanne nods.

It's understandable. Hot Rabbi makes great pasta. He calls a hotel to make sure there are two bathrobes in the bathroom because Joanne really wants them to match on her first trip. He is honest about his feelings. He's funny (even Morgan agrees). He's just right stupid (“The thing about nipples is that when it's cold you think they're going in instead of out”). He is rich. He has a nice little beard. He's not afraid of butt plugs. He's nice without being too nice (he's happy when he learns that Mr. Goldberg from the sex shop was with a woman who wasn't his wife). He is a member of a basketball team he calls the “Matzah Ballers.” He even manages to reverse the situation (“You can sabotage yourself all you want, but I think you should get over it,” he tells Joanne, who is disgusted by his “sports coat”). He's basically Seth Cohen, but better.

“If you want to make a romantic movie with a rabbi, you have to make him hot,” Foster said. “Nobody I’ve ever met has ever known a hot rabbi. I think there should be more hot rabbis. So I just wanted to give Jewish girls what they deserve, which is an attractive rabbi that they can look up to.”

On casting Brody as a character based on her husband, she added, “My husband is someone who can't make you feel bad; It's not possible, so to speak. He just radiates this sweetness and goodness and makes people feel seen and makes you laugh, and I tried to capture that feeling to connect him to this cynical character… Adam was the only one who had that purity in itself.”

Brody's reaction to everything? “Rabbis haven't been sexually objectified enough and I'm trying to do my part,” he deadpanned at a screening.

Of course, Hot Rabbi isn't the first holy man to wow television audiences. Andrew Scott's Hot Priest went into Fleabag so Brody's Hot Rabbi could run, but special mention also goes to Sidney Chambers, James Norton's crime-solving vicar in Grantchester, and Friar Fuck (Costas Mandylor) in Sex and the City”.

The reason for these “hornstorms,” according to Fleabag’s Phoebe Waller-Bridge, is because these characters are good at “really, really listening.” This is definitely true for Hot Rabbi: When Joanne explains to him her biggest fear about their relationship, his reassuring answer sent me running to the freezer to get the ice cube tray.

Will we see more of him? Measured by The ends, it is likely that a second season will find its way into our hearts. As Noah's brother Sasha (Timothy Simons) says, “God be quick, hot rabbi.”