“Nobody Wants That” Season 1 Episode 3 recap

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We all know it: the shame spiral. One little thing happens, or one person says something that’s just a little bit cutting, and you come down hard on yourself and go into a state of anxiety and self-loathing and full of cookies until you come to a conclusion: I’m the absolute worst. Being human is fun, isn’t it? In “Either Aura”, both members of our main couple experience their individual spiral of shame after a historically great TV kiss. But only one involves a shitty booty call with Ryan Hansen! Find out which ones below!

It’s not Noah. No, Noah spends the rest of the evening after the kiss in a hospital waiting room filled to the brim with terrible vending machine snacks and devastating levels of Jewish guilt. In that call from Rebecca at the end of the previous episode, Rebecca’s mother was trying to reach him and tell him that Rebecca had been in a car accident. She actually says that Rebecca is “almost in a coma,” which even Sasha can’t understand, but when Noah arrives at the hospital, he learns that Rebecca ran into the back of a parked bus and needs surgery on her wrist. She’s fine. Or “it’s in God’s hands now,” depending on who you ask.

The majority in the waiting room, including Bina, Esther and Rebecca’s parents, blame Noah. Rebecca was inconsolable, which caused her to become distracted and caused her accident. “It’s a shame she had to have an accident to get noticed!” Rebecca’s mother shouts at Noah when he arrives. And when Rebecca’s parents find out about the little blonde he’s been spending time with, chaos ensues. Even as he leaves the room, he can’t quite escape Team Rebecca’s wrath: Esther follows him to make sure he knows he’s an idiot, that her best friend Rebecca is too good for him, and that she always is still in love with him. He breaks up the whole family and mixes them up to boot. Listen, I dig Esther’s mean attitude (she’s played by Jackie Tohn, so good at it). GLOW), but that’s such a low blow.

However, the guilt works: Later, Ilan finds his son sitting alone and wondering if he is a terrible person and if it is selfish to try something different with Joanne. Ilan is somehow the best. He tells his son that it’s not selfish and he’s not a terrible person; He is the only person who has to live with either the regret or the joy of his decision, so he doesn’t have to listen to anyone. But don’t tell Bina that – she’d honestly flip. Remember when Esther said she was going to hit Sasha with her car? Yes, Bina would do that.

Elsewhere, Joanne experiences her own breakdown. Still floating after that kiss, she texts Noah: “That was a great kiss. I think I might be pregnant,” and starts to spin when he doesn’t respond. It certainly doesn’t help that at this moment she walks into a recording session with Morgan (and her mother) and her guest, a “doctor” who believes auras can reveal your personality, can’t find Joannes. Even this guy has an opinion about Joanne dating a rabbi. Morgan is very intrigued by the good rabbi telling Joanne to put away her ice cream before she smashes faces, but more than anything, she doubts that this budding relationship will last. It’s not that Joanne is a bad person per se, but she is a bad person “compared to a man of God.” But hey, she could definitely imagine Joanne with a cult leader. This pairing makes sense. She says it like a compliment, but it’s definitely an insult.

When Joanne shows Morgan and Lynn the text “I think I’m pregnant,” Noah’s ghost images begin to make sense to them. “He’s a rabbi, he has a different brain than you,” Morgan tells her sister. It sends Joanne deeper into her spiral. Why is she an idiot? Why does she always have to make jokes out of everything? Morgan tries to cheer her up by reminding her that at least she’s not boring, even though men actually seem to like boredom. Okay, so she doesn’t fluff them up; She just makes everything worse.

Joanne goes home in high spirits, which is probably why she calls him back when her usual asshole, Kyle, texts her. Don’t worry, it’s not about becoming friends with him; Actually, he, a garbage bag of a human being, can make her feel better because he, a grown man playing video games in a beanbag chair and getting annoyed with someone who thinks he’s the worst person, the person she knows – must surely think that she is a good person. Relatively speaking. But even Kyle understands what Joanne is up to. He won’t make her feel better. But he does us We feel better because, hey, we get a little Veronica Mars Pseudo-reunion, and it’s fun!

She doesn’t feel any better either – at least not in the long run – when Joanne almost hits a stray dog ​​and decides to rescue him from the street and keep him with her for the night until she takes him to her animal shelter the next morning girlfriend can bring. Cuddling with a puppy is nice, but isn’t he worried about fleas at all?

This is the state Joanne is in when she finally gets home, covered in dirt and leaves from her rescue, cuddling the puppy and so incredibly sad about Noah. However, she has no reason to be sad for Noah because she finds him sitting on her stairs. He tells her that he had a rough night and suddenly drove to her house because he wanted to see her. He congratulates her on her pregnancy – he had no idea he was such a good kisser – and Joanne immediately feels relief. She knew he would get it. And the reason he didn’t text her right away is because he left his phone in his car; He just got the message. Joanne needs to trust herself more, she needs to trust that she’s worthy of being loved just as she is right now, and she needs to trust that if a guy doesn’t understand a normal joke, that means that he sucks and it has nothing to do with messing with her. Joanne still has a lot of work to do when it comes to remembering that she is an equal in this relationship, but that work will be left for another day. For now, Joanne and Noah are saying how happy they are to see each other again after some very emotionally draining, introspective evenings, and whether being the only person someone wants to see after they’ve been at rock bottom isn’t a sign of something real happened between them, I don’t know what happened.