Yes, yes, it’s technically ‘Nobody Want This’, I suppose, we’re all very clever. 

Except, of course, that everyone wanted this. Everyone. Nobody Wants This is a flawed but deeply charming show, and the second season has a lot of pressure to go either up or out – but this was a very welcome outing of everyone involved. 

 

The great thirst over Hot Rabbi was already well-established this fall, but when the four people (Lainey: it’s more than four people because TikTok is not gossip-informed) who didn’t realize it found out he was actually married to Blair Waldorf herself? Come on. Extra points to Leighton Meester for the dress that says, “It’s not about me… but also, don’t you miss me?” 

 

I had no feelings about these two as a couple, until I saw this, and then…!?

Then their counterweight celebrity couple, complete with one playing lead and one supporting arrive. Kristen Bell looks polished, if slightly less than relaxed (look at those earrings, though! They look deliciously complex) and while it’s not about him, I should point out that though you can’t see it in this video, Dax Shepard is wearing checkerboard Vans with his tux and it’s …just nice, you know? 

 

Kristen Bell, meanwhile, immediately embraced her true theatre kid identity once inside the ballroom, nestled between Cynthia and Ariana and later gleefully photographed them as Jon M Chu spoke: 

Despite knowing they weren’t exactly favoured to win, Nobody Wants This definitely had a pretty full turnout – creator Erin Foster and her sister Sara appeared on the carpet, and later dubbed the assembled team ‘lovable losers’, which seems like the right tone for the series, from a team who had to have known they didn’t have the momentum – yet, anyway – to go up against the heavyweights.

Erin Foster's Instagram story
 

I hope they do, though. I hope they finish season two and get some love at the Emmys because I want more of this show’s energy – all the people, of course. Hot Rabbi, Joanne the total dick, but also more Justine Lupe:

Justine Lupe attends the 2025 Golden Globe Awards at The Beverly Hilton on January 05, 2025 in Beverly Hills, California

I have a habit, as Lainey will attest, of becoming charmed by small characters who have Something, and usually – sometimes not for YEARS – I am proven right. This has happened with Keke Palmer, with Jesse Plemons, and, though it’s not quite the same thing because she’s an adult, I always loved Justine Lupe in her brief scenes in Succession, because there was so much going on beneath the surface and with her decisions to become and remain Mrs. Connor Roy. 

 

It might have been just me – but when I was looking for Golden Globes videos I found this clip that, while it has nothing to do with last night’s festivities, made me fall in love with her once and for all, and seems like it’s a pretty good advertisement for the show in the bargain… 

 

Right? You see my point, yes? This is the kind of energy we want in 2025! 

Okay. So the Golden Globes made it a little too easy to make a joke out of Nobody Wants This, but I think it’s clear that we all do, in fact, want more of whatever the collective this is… and that we could also use more shows about regular people who are generally …okay, but definitely have flaws without superhuman talents (looking at you, The Bear) to make up for them.