For the duration of my childhood, my mother wore a chain around her neck that bore two pendants: one of a crucified Christ splayed out the cross and the other a Star of David with an emerald in the middle. As Esther Zuckerman wrote for Time Magazine at the time, “The series seems to loathe Jewish women, who are portrayed as nags, harpies and the ultimate villains of this story.” By the second season, this issue didn’t resolve itself for me and Zuckerman's concern remains, even with the addition of Jewish Jenni Konner and Bruce Eric Kaplan as showrunners. The central tension of the show—that Noah is Jewish and Joanne is Atheist—remains, but by the second season it no longer seems like the couple’s biggest concern.
Author: Opheli Garcia Lawler
Published at: 2025-11-16 22:00:00
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