‘Nobody Wants This’ Star Jackie Tohn Is on the Same Page With Her Character Esther About Sasha and Morgan’s Friendship
Nobody Wants This Season 1 saw sparks fly between agnostic Joanne (Kristen Bell) and rabbi Noah (Adam Brody) as a friendship quietly blossomed between their siblings. Morgan, played by Succession alum Justine Lupe, and Sasha (Timothy Simons) exchanged texts about their sister and brother’s relationship drama. Soon, however, an admittedly “weird”—Morgan’s words—friendship formed on the Netflix original series. That, in turn, upset Sasha’s wife, Esther, portrayed by Jackie Tohn, who, according to the actor, “she has the right to be.”
[Spoiler alert: This article contains spoilers from Nobody Wants This Season 1.]
Esther discovered Sasha and Morgan’s texts in the ‘Nobody Wants This’ Season 1 finale
Nobody Wants This Season 1 might’ve ended well for Joanne and Noah, but the same can’t be said for Esther. Sure, she had a sweet moment with Miriam (Shiloh Bearman), her and Sasha’s daughter. But the bat mitzvah left her with a big question: What’s going on between Sasha and Joanne’s sister, Morgan?
Viewers saw Morgan remark to Sasha that it’s weird that they’re friends in the finale. At that, Sasha confessed he liked talking to her. Meanwhile, Esther learned the two had been texting, declaring, “Those f***ing sisters have got to go.”
She should get an ‘explanation’ from Sasha about the ‘weird gray area’ of texts
Speaking to TV Line, Tohn shared that Esther deserves answers from Sasha. “I think [Esther] absolutely has the right to at least an explanation, right?” she said. “I mean, this isn’t like a dude she’s been dating for three weeks. This is her husband.”
“The texts are [in] that weird gray area…where, like, the texts are too cute,” she continued. “You can have a friend, and if someone needs a ride, give them a ride. [Sasha gave Morgan a ride home at one point during the season.] But, like, why [are] you being cute with someone else?”
It started when Sasha and Morgan joined Joanne and Noah. As the season progressed, the so-called “loser” siblings talked about Noah’s ex, Rebecca (Grown-ish’s Emily Arlook), and how her lies caused friction between Morgan and Joanne.
Esther ‘has the right’ to be upset about Sasha and Morgan’s friendship
“That’s what we’re playing with: What are the boundaries there? What is OK? Can they be friends?” Tohn continued. “Should she be pissed? Whether she should or shouldn’t, she is, obviously.”
Esther didn’t warm up to Joanne or Morgan despite several attempts at small talk. The only small wins came when they played a drinking game while watching Sasha and Noah play basketball, followed by Joanne inadvertently making Esther look better in the eyes of her mother-in-law.
All of that seemingly went to the wayside in the finale when Esther discovered Sasha and Morgan’s text. According to Tohn, Esther “has the right to be” upset about the situation.
“I think, personal opinion, she has the right to be…It’s the lack of information,” she said. “So it’s the finding out about the hiding that gets weird. Just say what it is.”
“But again,” she added, “if Sasha was like, ‘Hey, I know you really hate that one w***e, but I’m talking to the other w***e,’ it’s not like that’s going to go well.”
The future of ‘Nobody Wants This’ is uncertain
Will Esther ever get the opportunity to confront Sasha about his and Morgan’s texts? Unfortunately for fans, at the time of writing, there’s no clear answer. Netflix has yet to announce whether or not the rom-com series will be renewed for another season.
The show’s creator, Erin Foster, who based Noah and Joanne’s romance on her own life, wants it to go on. “There’s so much more story to tell,” she told Today. Furthermore, she has a road map—or at least an idea—of how things might progress for the pair were the series to continue.
“You just get to ‘I love you’ right at the end of the season? That’s a slow trajectory,” Foster said, noting how Joanne and Noah “take their time” in Nobody Wants This Season 1. “So if there was a season 2, I would want to pick up where we leave off and kind of continue to take it slow.”
Nobody Wants This Season 1 is streaming on Netflix.
