The “Nobody Wants This” Series Filming Sites Tour by On Location Tours is exactly what it sounds like – it’s great if you love the show and a little offbeat if you don’t.

There is a specific kind of tourism unique to Los Angeles that sits somewhere between authentic cultural experience and tacky novelty: the charter bus tour. People get on a bus. They drive around. Occasionally, they get off. There are Hollywood tours, celebrity house tours and, now, the “Nobody Wants This” tour – niche, but oddly charming.

“Nobody Wants This,” the 2024 Netflix romantic comedy hit, follows agnostic LA podcaster Joanne (Kristen Bell) as she begins dating the hip Rabbi Noah (Adam Brody). As the show’s title suggests, neither of their families is particularly thrilled by their new relationship. Inspired by creator Erin Foster’s real-life marriage, the show finds its heart in the tension between romance, religion and LA’s hyper-specific social world.

And not only does the series take place in LA, but it also films many scenes on location throughout the city rather than confining its world to a studio lot. The backdrops of many recognizable scenes are locally accessible if you know where to look – that’s the idea behind the tour.

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The three-hour excursion, unaffiliated with Netflix, characterizes itself as a love letter to both the show and the city of LA. The tour starts at the Wilshire Boulevard Temple in Koreatown – where the season one finale takes place – and winds through the Wilshire Corridor before looping through West Hollywood, Hollywood and Los Feliz. The tour’s hidden appeal lies in showcasing LA’s rich culture and history, which is often overlooked by tourists and locals alike.

For the most part, guests remain on the bus. Riders peer out at the arching Mirate doorway, Osteria Mozza and Floral Art By Mia. The bus stops at a house on Warner Drive where Noah’s brother lives in the show, then swerves a few houses down to where Joanne films her podcast. The big-glass-fishbowl vibe feels mildly invasive – or maybe just very LA. Still, it is exciting to take in so much of the city and the show’s locations at once, though the pace rarely lingers long enough at each spot to feel fully immersive.

The bus unloads for about 15 minutes at a handful of locations, including Jet Rag on La Brea, the vintage store where Joanne and Noah search for Purim costumes, and Urban Light, where one of the show’s most romantic scenes unfolds beneath the lamps at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. The tour also stops at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, where much of the second season’s finale takes place. There is even free ice cream at Handel’s about two-thirds of the way through, which buys an extra bit of delight.

But the tour bus structure has its limitations. Participants do not actually get to go inside the Academy Museum or nearby sites like LACMA and the La Brea Tar Pits. Instead, they circle the exteriors remembering how often they promised themselves they would visit these places one day, then get back on the bus with all those boxes still unchecked.

The highlight of the experience, however, is not the locations – it’s the tour guide. Rachel Feldstein has the kind of confidence that makes people willing to listen for three hours straight – which is necessary, because that’s exactly what she does. She is funny without working too hard, sardonic in a way that fits the material, deeply knowledgeable about both the show and LA history, and detailed without feeling overly scripted.

Although she said the tour is really about Joanne and Noah, Feldstein helps shift the experience away from the fact that Adam Brody and Kristen Bell once stood in these spots and toward the uniquely layered, cinematic quality LA already has.

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As a “Nobody Wants This” experience, the tour works best for people who have seen the show or truly don’t mind wandering LA in a slightly disjointed sequence. Although superfans may enjoy seeing the locations in person, they may be disappointed by how little time the tour actually spends engaging with many of them. Driving by can only do so much when the appeal is being able to step inside the world of a show. Still, covering that much ground in under three hours is impressive.

As an LA experience, the tour is not deep enough to replace visiting the city’s museums, neighborhoods or landmarks, but it does something almost as useful: it highlights them. It makes the familiar feel curious again. In that sense, the “Nobody Wants This” tour is not quite the deep dive some devotees might be seeking, nor is it just another gimmicky Hollywood bus ride. It exists somewhere in the middle – a side quest worth embarking on for avid fans of the show who have three hours to spare. It’s a little awkward, a little self-aware and oddly endearing – which might be exactly the point of an LA tour based on a Netflix rom-com.