“Nobody Wants This” Should’ve Taken Script Notes from its Name
“Keeping the Faith” wasn’t offensive enough, so a goy made an honorary sequel for us
My partner is a screenwriter, so I have had the opportunity to learn some fun tidbits about writing for film and television. For example, when a line in a script divulges the script’s own weaknesses, you may receive feedback about “script notes” — like if a character states “I am bored,” there is a good chance an audience is feeling that way, too. Or when a screenplay is called “Nobody Wants This,” which no one did (especially not Jews), but it unfortunately still gets made.
When I heard Netflix was creating a romantic comedy about a rabbi falling in love with a shiksa (a non-Jewish woman), my heart sank. Would this be another farce making Jews into evil, rich racists like You People? Another searing condemnation of religious Jews like Unorthodox? Or a perhaps joyous but vacuous and still “rich Jew”-trope-peddling romp like You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah?
The answer is somehow a combination of all of the above, but also something far more sinister. Yes, you read that right, SINISTER! And before anyone has a cow because I dare to criticize a ~CoMeDy~ (calm down), please understand that all mass media promotes some kind of aspiration and…
