Netflix has built a strong foundation of romance titles over the years. 2026 alone saw the return of some of their heaviest hitters, with Bridgerton returning for Season 4 towards the beginning of the year and Heartstopper officially wrapping up with the release of its feature-length finale, Heartstopper Forever. The teen drama My Life With the Walter Boys also welcomed viewers back to Silver Falls with Season 3, with plenty of swoon-worthy moments to boot. When it comes to rom-com series specifically, though, there’s only one that everybody wants more of.
Nobody Wants This debuted its third season last month, keeping up its reputation as one of the few modern streaming shows that airs on a fairly regular basis and dazzling critics and audiences alike along the way. Season 3 entered a new realm of firsts for Kristen Bell and Adam Brody‘s lead couple, as Joanne and Noah moved in together and began properly building their life together. As they settled into a stable relationship, everyone around them experienced changes, with Sasha (Timothy Simons) and Esther (Jackie Tohn) returning to the awkwardness of the dating world and Morgan (Justine Lupe) facing a new stage of her career. Subscribers once again flocked to the rom-com, powering the series to 78.5 million views across all three seasons. Such sustained success now has Netflix saying “I do” to Season 4.
Netflix has officially renewed its red-hot story of star-crossed lovers for another run as of November 6. It’s part of a surprising run of renewals for the streamer this month, alongside Adults, Youth, Outlast, and, in a history-maker for the platform, Virgin River, which will become its longest-running scripted drama by a number of seasons at nine. Nobody Wants This continuing is no shocker, given the viewership and Season 3 rating as its second-best on Rotten Tomatoes with a Certified Fresh score of 83% from critics. Erin Foster, Jenni Konner, and Bruce Eric Kaplan will be back as co-showrunners, writing, “We are so happy and thrilled to do another season of our favorite show on television, which coincidentally is the one we run.”
Collider Exclusive · 8 Questions · 2 Minutes Which Iconic Romance Is Your Favorite? Harry & Sally · Love & Basketball · Heated Rivalry · Titanic
Four great love stories, and four completely different ideas of what love actually is. One is a friendship that took twelve years to admit itself. One is two people who refuse to stop competing. One happens entirely behind closed doors. And one lasts five days and never stops mattering. Eight questions decide which one is really yours.
🍂Harry & Sally(1989)
🏀Love & Basketball(2000)
🏒Heated Rivalry(HBO Max)
🚢Titanic(1997)
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How does your love story start? The first scene tells you what kind of story this is going to be.
02
What do the two of you keep arguing about? Every great romance has one fight it has over and over.
03
How do you show somebody that you love them? Grand gestures are easy to write. This is the harder question.
04
What is actually standing in the way? There is always something. Which something tells you the genre.
05
Which romantic moment gets you every single time? Be honest. There is one that works on you and you know which.
06
What would you actually risk for the right person? Every romance asks this. Most people find out far too late.
07
Where are the two of you in ten years? Some love stories are about the meeting. Some are about the staying.
08
Which of these sounds most like something you would say? Eight questions in, this is the one that decides your romance.
Roll The Credits Your Romance Is…
Four love stories, four completely different ideas of what it means to
be somebody’s person. This is the one that matches how you actually fall, and what it would ask of
you.
When Harry Met Sally · 1989
Harry & Sally
You do not fall for strangers. You fall for the person you have
already been talking to for years, which is the slowest and by some distance the most
durable way anybody has found to do this.
When Harry Met Sally made the case that the best romance is an argument you enjoy,
conducted over a decade, by two people refusing to admit what is happening.
You want to be known rather than swept away. Somebody who remembers your worst story is
doing better work than anybody arriving with flowers.
The film is unusually honest about timing. These two are wrong for each other repeatedly
until suddenly they are not, and neither of them engineered it.
You would still be talking about everything at eighty. That is the entire promise.
Love & Basketball · 2000
Love & Basketball
You want a partner, not an audience. Somebody who wants their own
life as badly as you want yours, and who would never ask you to be smaller to make the
relationship easier.
This is the rare romance where both people have a real career and the film takes both of
them equally seriously.
You would rather be pushed than protected. The right person for you is also a bit of a
rival, and that never entirely goes away.
It understands the actual problem in ambitious relationships. Not whether you love each
other, but whose turn it is this year.
You would still be competing at forty. That is how you would know it was working.
Heated Rivalry · Rachel Reid · HBO Max 2025
Heated Rivalry
The intensity was never the problem. The secrecy is. You are
drawn to a love that lives entirely in private, and to the particular ache of wanting
somebody you are not supposed to want.
Heated Rivalry runs on the oldest engine in romance: two people on opposite sides,
meeting in secret, getting far more attached than either of them planned.
You keep your private life genuinely private, and something in you finds hidden things
more real than public ones.
The tension is not only between the two of them. It is between what they have and what
it would cost either one to say it out loud.
Years of this, and the whole story is really about whether either of them will finally
stop hiding.
Titanic · 1997
Titanic
You do not do this cautiously. When it happens for you it is
immediate and total and it rearranges everything, and you would not accept a smaller version
of it.
Titanic gave us the biggest romance in film history and then made it last about five
days, which is precisely the point of it.
You measure love by intensity rather than duration. A few days of the real thing beats
decades of something merely comfortable.
The film is not only about the romance. It is about a woman who went on to live an
enormous life afterwards because of it.
You would still be telling this story at a hundred years old, and telling it exactly the
same way.
What to Expect From Season 4 of ‘Nobody Wants This’
Season 3 ended with wedding bells ringing for Noah and Joanne on the beach in a surprise ceremony in front of no one but God and a random man walking his dog nearby. What was initially meant as a trip to finalize Joanne’s conversion to Judaism turns into a sacred moment for the couple that binds them together forever. However, they still have an entire squabbling family to break the news to, all of whom are sure to be very normal about it.
There’s also the reason for their bickering to deal with — Sasha is caught between his estranged wife Esther and Morgan, with both finding out about his hook-ups with the other. His story is expected to get a big spotlight in Season 4, with all of Stephanie Faracy, Michael Hitchcock, Paul Ben-Victor, Tovah Feldshuh, Andrew Rannells, Sarah Silverman, Shiloh Bearman, and Sherry Cola likely returning alongside the aforementioned stars.
