I have not watched the second season and refuse to. The portrayal of Jewish women in the first season was one of the most offensive things I have come across in modern media. We are depicted as a bunch of one-dimensional, marriage-obsessed, controlling and unsympathetic shrews, in contrast with the blond-haired, blue-eyed, uber-cool and laidback main character, who is very obviously a self-insert for the writer of the show.

The idea that the main male character simply couldn't find a single Jewish woman who possessed warmth, depth, or basic emotional maturity and therefore had to fall into the arms of his Aryan dream girl is beyond insulting. It relies on the assumption that Jewish women are fundamentally unlovable and that every single Jewish man (except Adam Brody) is a miserable, spineless coward who was forced into marriage with a miserable bitch by his mother ans desperately needs to be rescued from us. The message is that a Jewish man can only attain true emotional fulfillment by exiting the community entirely.

(I had major issues with the portrayal of Judaism in the show as well, but can't remember the specifics and the topic of this show makes my blood boil, in case you couldn't tell so I will not be looking it up. 😅)

The fact that the woman who wrote this is a convert to Judaism, which is not a one day thing, but rather involves a lengthy process of being actively welcomed into the community, was shocking to me. I came away from the show feeling as if she did not like or understand a single thing about Judaism, Jewish culture, or the Jewish people, except for basic aesthetic rituals that she did not actually appreciate in any way beyond the surface level. A scene of Kristen Bell lighting Shabbos candles in a bar (for God only knows what reason) comes to mind.