How Erin Foster’s Jewish Conversion Led to 'Nobody Wants This'

The latest in pop-culture news, recaps, and reviews, plus close reads, profiles, interviews, and more from Vulture.com. [Brand Logo]( profile [A Shiksa Love Story]( Erin Foster spent the past decade turning her Hollywood life into content. Her new rom-com series might finally get your attention. Photo: /ADAM ROSE/NETFLIX Six years ago, a guy [Erin Foster]( had just started dating was meeting her mother for the first time and brought to the restaurant a bouquet of sunflowers large enough to command its own chair. “The flowers were so long, and they kept falling over,” says Foster. “Sitting there, I was like, Well, if someone cares this much, then that feels like a weakness.” She was 36 and had dated enough assholes, including a few celebrities, to know that she was the jerk in this case, but still, she recoiled from him on the car ride home. “There’s no hope for me,” she remembers thinking. “I am a human who got some bad wiring about what a relationship is supposed to look like, and I’m clearly sabotaging something.” When Foster, the creator and an executive producer of the Netflix rom-com series [Nobody Wants This](, first told her writers’ room this anecdote, the men were baffled, but the women immediately got it. “That made me feel like it was a good story to tell,” she says. [read more]( Devour pop culture with us. [Subscribe now]( to save over 40% on unlimited access to Vulture and everything New York. The Latest TV Recaps • Only Murders in the Building: [It Takes Two]( • My Brilliant Friend: [All About My Mother]( • Below Deck Mediterranean: [So Long, Athens]( [Learn more about RevenueStripe...]( Stories We Think You’ll Like [The World Wasn’t Ready for Body Double “Sometimes the style of the day is not the right way to appraise something innovative,” Brian De Palma says now.]( [The Grotesquerie Cast Has Nothing But Praise for Team Player Travis Kelce Even though he didn’t teach them anything about football.]( By Fran Hoepfner [Has Olga Tokarczuk Been Struck by the Nobel Curse? Her latest novel, The Empusium, is more focused on dictating a salient political message than pushing the bounds of art.]( By Robert Rubsam [Lily Collins Can’t Name One Genesis Song Phil’s daughter is in too deep.]( By Devon Ivie [Make Girls Superpowered Some suggestions for HBO’s upcoming slate.]( By Vulture Staff [Apple Dance Hits the Big Apple Kelley Heyer, the dance’s creator, joins the ever-growing Sweat Tour lineage.]( By Jason P. Frank [The Gypsy Casting Team Loved Broadway’s The Notebook Two Allies will both star in the Gypsy revival opposite Audra McDonald.]( By Jason P. Frank [Ellen Needed This The comedian’s final stand-up performance functioned as a kind of therapy — for both DeGeneres and her audience.]( By Joe Berkowitz [Jodie Turner-Smith’s Dragon Queen Is Clicking Through YouTube Makeup Tutorials The Bad Monkey actress’s vision for her character’s “armor” extends all the way to her eye makeup and nail color.]( By Devon Ivie [Learn more about RevenueStripe...]( Vulture Games [Today’s Crossword]( 8-Down, Five Letters: Ceremonial dinner in an “Uncut Gems” scene Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photos: Getty Images (Tommaso Boddi/Variety, Elyse Jankowski, Kevin Mazur) [Today’s Cinematrix]( Can you name an Octavia Spencer movie based on a book? Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photos: Getty A newsletter about the perpetual Hollywood awards race, for subscribers only. [Sign up]( to get it every week. [Get the Newsletter]( [logo]( [facebook logo]( [instagram logo]( [twitter logo]( [unsubscribe]( | [privacy notice]( | [update preferences]( This email was sent to {EMAIL}. Was this email forwarded to you? [Sign up now]( to get this newsletter in your inbox. [View this email in your browser.]( You received this email because you have a subscription to New York. Reach the right online audience with us For advertising information on email newsletters, please contact AdOps@nymag.com Vox Media, LLC 1701 Rhode Island Ave NW, Washington, DC 20036 Copyright © 2024, All rights reserved