The third season of No person Needs This has been formally greenlit — however is each solid member returning?
Netflix's hit present, which premiered in September 2024, centered on the unlikely relationship between the outspoken, agnostic Joanne (Kristen Bell) and unconventional rabbi Noah (Adam Brody). After its inaugural season's success, the present returned for a second season, which picked up after Joanne and Noah determined to offer their unlikely romance an actual shot.
After dealing with main ups and downs — largely as a consequence of their differing faiths — Noah and Joanne broke up however have been in the end capable of work issues out when Noah realized Joanne was his individual. Joanne, in the meantime, got here to the conclusion that she may see herself changing.
“We needed to finish on romance, not faith,” creator Erin Foster instructed Tudum in October 2025 concerning the ending. “The romance is him saying, ‘I don't care what you're, I'm selecting you.' We don't actually need to listen to her saying, ‘Oh, my God, you're not going to consider this. I've been Jewish this whole time.' As a result of we all know that's about to occur.”
She added: “She's making an attempt so laborious to see it that she will be able to't see it. She's craving for one thing to offer her construction, objective, boundaries, values and traditions. Judaism may give her all of these issues. … She's having fun with all these various things about Judaism,” mentioned Foster. “However she retains considering God goes to only come down from the sky and be like, ‘And now you're Jewish!'”
Earlier than the present was renewed for season 3, the solid teased how Noah and Joanne are anticipated to be in a special place of their relationship.
“It's not Noah in opposition to Joanne,” Bell instructed Tudum. “It's Joanne and Noah in opposition to the issue, which I feel is a superb framework to come back at any relationship with.”
Hold scrolling to see which No person Needs This characters are returning for season 3 — and which aren't:
Kristen Bell
Bell is returning in season 3 after evaluating Joanne and Noah's relationship points to among the challenges she's skilled together with her personal husband, Dax Shepard.
“Having somebody I really feel that may be very reverse from me is actually one thing that I really feel,” she instructed Individuals in October 2025. “I really feel like my real-life husband and I are ‘opposites entice.'”
Bell famous that having reverse outlooks doesn't robotically imply a relationship is doomed.
“However that doesn't imply we couldn't make it work, or didn't need to make it work, ” she continued. “It simply meant we did need to have lots of endurance for one another to determine what the compromises can be, and a common understanding that we're in all probability going to have totally different viewpoints on nearly the whole lot — and determine a respectful approach to have these discussions.”
Adam Brody
Kristen Bell and Adam Brody in No person Needs This season 2 Netflix
Brody was featured within the announcement video for season 3 after beforehand teasing the present's future.
“When it comes to the distinction [between finales], I feel it's the identical however extra. They got here collectively in the long run of final season, like, ‘I'm committing to you,'” he instructed Leisure Weekly. “And now they've gotten a for much longer, extra in-depth take a look at the difficulties and the compromises needed of that and are nonetheless saying, all that apart, ‘I do know what I'm moving into and I'm nonetheless doing it.' So I feel it's a stronger dedication.”
Justine Lupe
Lupe is returning as Joanne's youthful sister and podcast cohost within the subsequent season of No person Needs This.
“I feel Morgan is combating so laborious to really feel OK and Joanne is combating so laborious to show to Morgan that what she's doing shouldn't be genuine that it creates lots of rigidity between them,” she teased to The Hollywood Reporter in October 2025. “The entire thing is about caring about one another. Morgan caring about her relationship with Joanne altering, and Joanne caring about Morgan ruining her life as a result of she's leaping into one thing that isn't gonna be good for her in the long run.”
Timothy Simons
Jackie Tohn, Tovah Feldshuh, Timothy Simons and Kristen Bell. Adam Rose/Netflix
Simons' character Sasha can be entrance and heart in season 3, with the actor telling Individuals in October 2025, “I feel my recommendation for Sasha can be [do] what he's doing, which is, don't attempt to maintain on too tight if [his wife] wants that. Give her area and let her determine it out. You may't power any person to be there.”
Jackie Tohn
After being promoted to a major solid member in season 2, Tohn will proceed to carry Esther to life.
“I'd like to see Esther's household. I'd love to satisfy her mother and father. There's lots of enjoyable available there with who Esther's mom is,” Tohn instructed The Hollywood Reporter. “There's Bette Midler, Barbra Streisand, Fran Drescher, Susie Essman. I imply, there's no scarcity of unimaginable Jewish girls to come back in, after which that individual makes Esther look like a fragile flower. It could be so humorous.”
