Everyone is cute and cuddly on 'Nobody Wants This'

Adam Brody as Noah and Kristen Bell as Joanne in a scene from “Nobody Wants This.”Saeed Adyani/Netflix

OK. You are bored with gunshots, dark streets, young and handsome police officers, beautiful corpses and beautiful people. I understand. In fact, this is the body of another film, “Wolves”, with Brad Pitt and George Clooney, but that’s next week’s review.

Here, in creator Erin Foster’s new 10-part romantic comedy series, there’s something that might be more comfortable.

“An agnostic sex podcaster (Kristen Bell) and a newly handsome, bearded, very single rabbi (Adam Brody) fall in love (of course) and soon discover that their growing relationship will come into conflict (of course) and outlive their experiences very different. (incredibly different) lives and meddling families.” Do you think?

The “sex podcaster”, a beautiful, bright blonde “shiksa” (Kristen) and her sister Morgan, a beautiful, slightly older blonde (Justine Lupe) have set up a new (they hope) podcast radio show for young couples in Los Angeles. Angeles, even though girls who look like Kristen Bell don’t listen to podcasts.

Together, they go to a dinner party where Joanne (Kristen) spots young Rabbi Noah (Adam Brody with a tasteful beard and yarmulke) and they both get a sparkle in their eyes and a fiery waist.

Wasn’t that the old joke “A rabbi walks into a bar and…”?

As a former resident of the City of Angels, I know that not all the irreligious girls in Los Angeles look like cotton candy on a stick, only a few thousand, and the rabbis are not all old or middle-aged snorers. I met a rabbi who looked like George Clooney.

And I’m shocked, shocked, mind you, to discover that this rabbi looks and acts like, well, like Adam Brody. He’s cute, funny, and just broke up with his Jewish girlfriend, Rebecca.

What’s more, he has a Jewish mother, in the form of Tovah Feldshuh, who has such calm Jewish mothers that when directors need a Jewish mother, they immediately dial Tovah’s iPhone.

Tovah is a wonderful actress, but here she is presented as a regular SNL character, a Jewish mother.

Paul Ben-Victor plays Ilan, the rabbi’s calmer father. He used to play gangsters. Timothy Simons, the 8-foot-tall comedian from “Veep,” plays Sasha, the perfect goofy brother who flirts with every non-Jewish girl in Los Angeles.

Okay, it’s Saturday night and you want everyone to be cute and cuddly. You have them here.

I can’t reveal anything beyond the first chapter, nor reveal the outcome, of course. Since I was attracted to something light and funny, I was completely happy and skated through all 10 segments in two nights.

Foster has all the comedic touches of a professional and obviously based her characters on friends.

My opinion? I would have cast a much younger Amy Ryan as Joanne and kept Brody as the rabbi.

I have to say, as an Irish Catholic kid from Los Angeles, I think Noah was crazy for giving up his first girlfriend, Rebecca (Emily Airlock). She was fine.

“Nobody Wants This” is streaming on Netflix.

JP Devine of Waterville is a former stage and film actor.