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The Impeccable Smoothness of Nobody Wants This
The compulsively watchable Netflix series is TV’s first great podcast rom-com, and an even greater Adam Brody vehicle.
The occupation of print journalist used to be enough to conjure a patina of glamour around rom-com protagonists caught up in some charming adventure: Julia Roberts was a feared restaurant critic in My Best Friend’s Wedding, and Kate Hudson tried to scam Matthew McConaughey in How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days because she needed copy. It feels like what you’d get if you took Fleabag ’s sexual tension with the Hot Priest and totally Netflix’d the thing: Strip out the spikiness, sand down the details, and wrap the entire package in the grease of a gourmet cheeseburger. He’s had a decent run in recent years playing a little slimy, stealing scenes as a cad in Fleishman Is in Trouble and drawing out pathos as a doubting son of a murderous family in the 2019 horror-comedy Ready or Not.
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