Whose crush is Adam Brody anyway? The millennials generation

The influence Adam Brody has had on generations of television viewers cannot be underestimated.

Audiences first got a taste of his awkward but endearing charisma as Dave Rygalski in Season 3 of Gilmore Girls. With the debut of The OK In 2003, fans were amazed by Brody's quick wit and charm as Seth Cohen, a comic-reading teenager from Newport Beach, California. As Cohen, Brody is sweet and self-deprecating. He has “geeky” interests that define him not like other guys – and unlike his brooding evil counterpart, Ryan Atwood (Ben McKenzie), he is upbeat, approachable and often upbeat. He's a nice guy who actually finishes first.

Now the 44-year-old actor is winning hearts faster than you can say “California” with his latest Netflix series. In Nobody wants thatBrody plays Noah Roklov, a recently single rabbi in LA who falls in love with an agnostic sex podcaster played by his love interest. Veronica Mars Star Kristen Bell. Their characters' romance doesn't exactly make sense to their friends and family, nor does it seem likely to be successful. They decide to try anyway.

To some fans, Roklov is a grown-up version of Cohen – although Brody has politely refuted this. (“I don't think Seth Cohen would have been a rabbi,” he said in a recent interview with Yahoo Entertainment.) Still, Brody's return to his roots as an unconventional heartthrob has viewers in a frenzy.

Nobody wants that Hit No. 2 on Netflix's top 10 most popular TV shows worldwide, reaching more than 10.3 million views in the days following its September 26 premiere. On social media, viewers – including many longtime Brody fans – have shared their love for the romantic comedy and its leading man.

However, a debate or generational war has begun among fans: is Brody part of Generation X or Millennials?

Four days after the show's premiere, a fan wrote on X that both Brody and Dawson's Creek alum Joshua Jackson (who is also having a moment thanks to ABC's Doctor Odyssey) belong to Generation X. She argued that because Brody and Jackson were born in 1979 and 1978, respectively, they belong to Generation

Millennials disagree.

Some millennials argue that Brody is part of their generation because Seth Cohen was in high school at the same time many of them were in high school. (They grew up together, so to speak.) Fans of The OK I believe Cohen was born in 1988. But who says Cohen's or Brody's birth years should play a role in this so-called generational divide? Should we really be so technical?

The Millennial camp's stance is also that Brody's status as a generational heartthrob should be determined by the age of his core fanbase, which are Millennials. There are also statistics that prove this. Variety reported on it in May 2003 The OK was a “huge draw” among teenagers, particularly those between 12 and 17 years old.

Beyond social media, news outlets vouch that Brody and the romantic comedy are irrevocably millennial. Vogue asked if Brody was the “defining millennial heartthrob,” while USA Today called the new show one that warms the “cold hearts of millennials.”

The LA Times, AV Club and BuzzFeed have also acknowledged the series' impact on nostalgic people in their late 20s and early 40s who grew up with the shows Brody and Bell made famous, with phrases like “Millennial Magic” and “Millennial Heaven.” have made. is used to describe the Netflix hit. Brody even referred to him and Bell as a “generation-approved couple” for millennials in an interview with Newsweek.

Brody isn't the only early childhood star to see an upswing in both his career and his status as a heartthrob. In fact, he is the latest in a line of actors to experience a second coming. Jackson, who rose to fame as lovelorn prankster Pacey Witter Dawson's Creek, Now the stars are shining Doctor Odyssey, which premiered the same day on ABC Nobody wants that. Before his turn on The Ryan Murphy Show, Jackson starred on Paramount+ Fatal attraction. Jackson and Brody are also joined by teenage heartthrob Josh Hartnett, who stars in “M. “Night Shyamalan” shone as a humble serial killer Catch and was a guest star in a third season episode of FX's The bear.

So which generation gets to brag about Brody? While a final answer is still pending, Netflix warned audiences and their “millennial hearts” about the series' debut.

That has to count for something, right?