Picture: Erin Foster (left), the co-showrunner and creator of Nobody Wants This – Netflix
Nobody Wants This has a story beyond its newly married leads—but Netflix hasn’t ordered another season yet. Erin Foster, the series’ creator and co-showrunner, says she sees room to follow Joanne and Noah into married life. Her comments leave the central question open: whether the show gets to tell that next chapter.
The third season ended with Joanne and Noah secretly eloping, a sharp turn for a couple who had only recently started living together. Their relationship has supplied the show with plenty of upheaval, but a wedding isn’t a tidy full stop when the characters still have to live with the consequences. Foster has discussed both the show’s future and what a fourth season might hold.
Picture: creator Erin Foster starred in the third season of Nobody Wants This – Netflix
In an exclusive interview with Parade, Foster connected the couple’s future to her own experience of marrying at 37. Starting married life later, she said, can feel different from taking that step in your 20s; she believes Joanne and Noah have more to work through.
“There’s those next steps as people who are not in their 20s, getting married and you’re starting off already kind of behind everyone else, I experienced that when I got married, I was 37, and it’s a different experience. So, yeah, I do think that there’s more story to tell.”
But I’m also someone who doesn’t get too attached to the outcome and is sort of fluid about allowing sort of the market to tell us what they want from us,” she adds. “I never want to have a show that goes on longer than people want to see it. I’d rather people want more than want less.”
Picture: Joanne and Noah across the three seasons of Nobody Wants This – Netflix
The wedding leaves unfinished business
A fourth-season renewal hasn’t been announced, and Foster’s measured answer sounds like someone prepared for either outcome. She’d like to keep telling the story, but says she’d rather end while viewers still want more than stretch the series past its welcome. That’s a sensible instinct; her enthusiasm alone can’t settle the question.
The elopement also changes the stakes for Bina, who had been planning a wedding of her own. Foster expects her to take the loss personally.
“I do not think Bina will be very happy about her planned wedding that she’s been working so hard for being taken away from her. I think that she will take that pretty personally.”
Picture: Tovah Feldshuh as Bina in Nobody Wants This – Netflix
Asked whether the elopement could serve as the show’s ending, Foster said she can see the case for both continuing and stopping. She’s attached to the series and encouraged by the audience’s response to the season, but also accepts that a show may finish before its creator feels ready. For now, she says she’s willing to continue.
“I feel both. I mean, of course, I’m so attached to this show and to the story, and would love to see it continue. But I also really honor the fact that sometimes things end before you’re ready. I do think that’s better than ending after everybody has wished that it was already off the air. So I don’t know. I think people loving this season so much already does make me want to tell more of their story. So I’m game. I mean, I think it’s a special show, and it’s been such an incredible experience for all of us. So, it’s hard to walk away from“
Sasha and Morgan face the fallout
Picture: Morgan and Sasha in Nobody Wants This season 3 – Netflix
Joanne and Noah aren’t the only couple with unresolved business. Viewers had waited for Sasha and Morgan to get together; when season three finally brought them closer, Morgan ran from the relationship. Sasha then slept with his estranged wife, Esther, setting up a difficult reckoning for all three.
Foster says Sasha will need to examine how his people-pleasing and weak boundaries have hurt others. By the season’s end, he has wounded both Morgan and Esther, and his attempts to please people have left him behaving like someone playing the two women against each other.
“I think it’s forcing Sasha to examine the kind of decisions he’s making as a people pleaser, as someone who doesn’t have great boundaries. He’s really hurt two people by the end, and he’s unintentionally become this Lothario guy who has kind of been screwing around these two women and pitting them against each other, and I think he really is going to have to look at that”
Morgan’s next move is less predictable. Foster describes her as still trying to understand herself: she opened up, made herself vulnerable and was rejected. What she does after that, Foster says, is an open question.
“Morgan, I think, is still flailing and like trying to figure out who she. She tries to be vulnerable in Season 3. She opens up, and she kind of puts her heart on her sleeve, and she gets hurt and rejected. And so it’s always interesting to see what someone does next after that move.”
Netflix’s renewal decision is still pending
The audience numbers may help determine whether these storylines continue. Netflix has yet to publish the opening-week viewership figures for season three. The show has historically received renewal news exactly two weeks after a premiere, so an announcement could come as early as November 5, 2026.
A four-week comparison of seven Netflix series seasons puts Nobody Wants This season one at the top, with 42 million cumulative views. The total across all seven titles is 168.2 million: The Four Seasons season one recorded 32.9 million, Running Point season one 31 million, and Nobody Wants This season two 25.4 million. The remaining entries are Running Point season two at 15.3 million, The Four Seasons season two at 14.5 million, and Big Mistakes season one at 7.1 million. These figures describe the four-week comparison; they don’t answer the still-pending question of season three’s opening-week performance.
The audience case for another season
Nobody Wants This led the chart with 42 million cumulative views over four weeks for season 1. The later entries show a steep drop: season 2 reached 25.4 million, while Big Mistakes season 1 recorded 7.1 million. Those figures don’t tell us how season 3 performed, but they do explain why its audience matters: Netflix’s decision on a fourth season will ultimately depend on whether enough people watched.
That’s the business question. The creative one is what Erin Foster has in mind for Noah and Joanne. Her input has us curious about what comes next, though a promising direction can’t guarantee the show another season.
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