Are Joanne and Noah Still Together?

Warning: Nobody Wants This season 2 spoilers ahead!

Things are complicated for your favorite “hot rabbi” and sex podcaster in the Nobody Wants This season 2 finale.

Inspired by creator and producer Erin Foster’s real-life love story, the Netflix series follows the unlikely romance between Noah (Adam Brody) and Joanne (Kristen Bell). Season 2 was released on Oct. 23, picking up with the pair trying to make their relationship work, despite Joanne’s decision to not convert to Judaism (at least for now) in the season 1 finale.

Throughout the 10-episode season, their relationship seems mostly steady, until the question of moving in together forces them to face the big question they’ve been avoiding: Can Noah move forward in this relationship without Joanne converting?

Despite their best efforts to push their differences aside, that question comes to a head in the season 2 finale — along with big changes for their siblings’ respective relationships.

So, how does Nobody Wants This season 2 end? Here’s everything to know about the finale of the beloved Netflix rom-com.

How does Nobody Wants This season 2 end?

The final episode of season 2 kicks off with Joanne and Noah entering her sister Morgan’s (Justine Lupe) engagement party, fresh off a fight about their futures in the penultimate episode. Though they agree there is an overwhelming tension between them, Joanne and Noah agree to put off the difficult conversation (and fake their happiness!) until later in an effort to keep the attention on Morgan for her special day.

So, they enter the party hand-in-hand and attempt to put on a facade, though find themselves making small digs at one another throughout the event. But after an eye-opening conversation with Sasha, a somber Noah approaches Joanne in the middle of the engagement party and breaks up with her.

As Noah explains, rather than listing the “100 different ways” he could convince her to be with him, he acknowledges that “nothing good happens when it’s forced.”

“I don’t wanna be the person who’s asking you to be someone different,” he tells Joanne, noting that she might wake up and resent him down the line. After saying he’s all out of ideas, Noah says he is “accepting the truth” of their situation, breaks up with Joanne and leaves the party.

But, Joanne and Noah aren’t the only ones having relationship issues, as their respective siblings, Morgan and Sasha, are also facing troubled waters in their own relationships.

What happens between Morgan and Andy?

Earlier in the season, Morgan got engaged to her former therapist, Dr. Andy (Arian Moayed) — much to her sister’s dismay. But by the time of their engagement party in the finale, despite her best efforts to convince not just her sister, but also herself, that she is “so happy,” Morgan begins doubting her feelings for her beau.

Joanne vows to stand by her side no matter what she chooses to do, and tells her she is happy to push her either way. Morgan asks Joanne to help push her to break up with him — in the middle of their engagement party — and the younger sister tries to set her plan in motion.

However, when Morgan runs into an obstacle in breaking up with him, a moody Joanne tells him to just marry him anyway. But, with a little encouragement from her mom, she finally finds the courage to tell him just how she feels: “I’m scared I’m not gonna follow through on breaking up with you and that we’re just gonna end up together, and that’s not what I want,” she tells her fiancé.

Morgan breaks up with him and admits that Joanne’s relationship made her rush into things, despite not wanting to go at that pace. Dr. Andy replies that as her fiancé, he is “utterly heartbroken,” but as her therapist, he is “really proud.”

Where do Esther and Sasha stand?

Throughout the season 2 finale, Noah’s brother Sasha (Timothy Simons) and his wife Esther (Jackie Tohn) are unknowingly on different pages of their relationship. Sasha tells Noah that they’ve been “doing really well the last couple days,” while Esther seems to have some doubts creeping in.

While sharing a slow dance, Sasha tells Esther that he has noticed she hasn’t been herself lately and vows to stay out of her way, explaining that he’s been trying to figure out a way to reignite their “spark.”

Esther acknowledges his efforts, but ultimately concludes that it isn’t working between them.

“It’s not working, and I don’t know why,” she tells him. “But what I do know is it’s me right now, and I can’t fix it while we’re together. I can’t believe I just said that.”

Sasha replies, “That makes two of us.”

He and Morgan then share a somber conversation on the floor of the party, where he admits that while she is out there seeing what life is like without him, he’ll probably be sitting around, waiting for Esther to take him back.

Is Joanne converting to Judaism?

From the very beginning, the big question hanging over the series has been whether Joanne and Noah can be together if she doesn’t convert to Judaism — something that, despite their best efforts to put off in season 2, continued to resurface and prove an obstacle to them.

In the finale, Joanne and Esther share a heartfelt conversation when Joanne tells her that she thinks she and Noah are “really done.” While reflecting on all of the little things she’ll miss now that her “big thing” is over, Joanne reminisces about some of her favorite Jewish traditions that she’s come to love while dating Noah.

Esther tells her to continue doing those things — and also helps her realize that she is complicating the idea of Judaism, as she already carries so many of the traits of the tribe, from “getting in everybody’s business,” to being “obsessed” with her family and “eating the Challah before you’re supposed to.”

Though Esther tells her she might be waiting for a sign, she explains it’s more about a “feeling” — one that comes from enjoying all of those “little things.”

Esther then helps her realize that, with or without Noah, she is Jewish. While she doesn’t officially convert in the episode, the moment seems to be telling of what might be to come.

Is it really over between Joanne and Noah?

Just as viewers think it’s over between their favorite unlikely duo, things take a turn in the final few minutes of the episode, following independent realizations had by Joanne during her conversation with Esther, and Noah while on his walk home from the party.

After the pair almost miss each other in a quintessential rom-com elevator-chase scene, the pair find each other standing outside of Los Angeles’ Urban Lights, where Noah makes a romantic declaration to Joanne.

“None of it matters. You are my soulmate. That’s it,” he tells her. “I don’t care if you’re Jewish, I don’t care if you’re not Jewish. I choose you. Every time.”

Joanne tells him he’s “in luck,” seemingly referencing her decision to convert — and the pair share a romantic, passionate kiss in the final moment of the second season.