Summary

D’Arcy Carden & Sherry Cola tour outrageous, rentable stays across America on HGTV’s Wild Vacation Rentals.

HGTV’s Wild Vacation Rentals features American destinations including caves, missile silos, castles, candy lands, and even a potato.

The Nobody Wants This stars have an easy, unscripted chemistry that makes the road-trip format playful, funny, and informative.

HGTV has been steadily adding celebrity-hosted TV shows alongside fixtures like Property Brothers and House Hunters to its library, and Wild Vacation Rentals might be their best one yet. The travel series, hosted by comedians and longtime friends D’Arcy Carden (The Good Place, Barry, A League of Their Own) and Sherry Cola (Joy Ride, Poker Face, Turning Red), takes viewers across the United States to truly unbelievable places that you at home can rent for your next trip. In the premiere of Wild Vacation Rentals, Nobody Wants This stars Carden and Cola head to Missouri and Arkansas where they stay in a literal cave that has been renovated to be a cozy getaway, a former missile silo perfect for your bunker fantasy, and a racing-themed Airbnb complete with a racetrack. But that’s just the beginning. Over the course of Season 1, the duo visits everything from a castle, a candy-themed adventureland, a lazy river, an animal sanctuary, and… a potato? Yes, a potato. During this interview with Collider, D’Arcy Carden and Sherry Cola talk about what it was like travelling the United States and unearthing hidden gems, what location surprised them the most, how filming an unscripted project differs from scripted, and, of course, how they need to star in a Hamnet sequel.
HGTV’s ‘Wild Vacation Rentals’ D’Arcy Carden and Sherry Cola Are Completely Amazed by All America Has To Offer

“There’s so much to see.”

I saw one episode of the show so far, and I loved it. It’s such a great escape. CARDEN: Yes. A great escape. Just from the craziness of the world. It’s awesome, and you guys are so fun together, and have great personalities. You don’t overtake the show and overshadow the great spots you go to; you give them respect and attention. It’s super fun. Congrats on the show. CARDEN: Thank you for that! COLA: Thank you. CARDEN: I’m taking it like it’s notes. I’m like, “Okay…great…” COLA: [Laugh] Yeah, yeah, yeah. In the first episode, you visit a cave, a missile silo, and a racetrack Airbnb. You travel to a lot of places. Arkansas and Missouri don’t necessarily scream “vacation hotspot” to a lot of people. Did you have any preconceived opinions about certain places you were going to go, only to have them completely blow you away or change your opinion? CARDEN: Sher, I was thinking, Oklahoma. Remember? I would never have known that Oklahoma was a vacation destination. COLA: Yeah. CARDEN: The place we went to in particular, Broken Bow, is that right? COLA: Yes, yes, yes, Broken Bow! CARDEN: Bottom right corner of Oklahoma. It has all these vacation homes, all these big, huge, really special… we visited a tree house and a big lodge and a sort of castle and just all these really amazing vacation homes. And it was the only place we went — usually we would have to travel really far to get from one place to another, three hours here, two hours there — but in Broken Bow, it was all down the street from each other. There’s just vacation homes aplenty. COLA: Yeah. It was almost like a community of vacation homes in a theme park-y way, now that I think about it, because this one had a suspension bridge, the one across the street was a wizardry hangout. CARDEN: A wizardry hangout. COLA: Yeah, yeah. And I actually have been to Oklahoma before. I shot a film in Tulsa, and that was a different place, a cute, artsy town. You’re reminded how different all of these places are, even within a state. It’s cool to explore the country, honestly, that we live in. Listen, I have notes for the country, but at the end of the day, we live here, and it’s nice to see corners that we never thought we’d step into. CARDEN: I totally agree. It’s one of the most special parts of this show. Roadtripping across America in general will show you this, but there’s so much to see, and it’s so unique. And this was like a really great way to get to experience some new things. COLA: Yeah, definitely.
Carden and Cola Tease Where They Want To Go Next on HGTV’s ‘Wild Vacation Rentals’

D’Arcy Carden and Sherry Cola smiling and taking a picture in outdoor bathtubs in Wild Vacation RentalsImage via HGTV

That’s fantastic. If you could both take a solo trip one week to somewhere that you’ve never been, where would it be? CARDEN: In America? Yeah. COLA: That we’ve never been? So we haven’t been on the show? Yes — haven’t been on the show, and it’s a solo trip. CARDEN: Solo by ourselves, not even together!? Okay. COLA: Not even lovers? No I know, it’s tough. CARDEN: A place I’ve never been to before… COLA: You know what? I’m going to soft promote D’Arcy’s show that’s coming out, hopefully this year, I believe. Nantucket! CARDEN: Yeah. COLA: I’ve never been to Nantucket, and I know you filmed there this year. It looks like a beautiful place that I like to, you know, go and feel the wind on my face and perhaps enjoy some seafood, right? CARDEN: Yes. Sherry, you would love it, and that would be a really good place to do a solo trip, for sure. COLA: Totally. CARDEN: I think that’s great. I think I’m going to… can I say Alaska? You sure can. CARDEN: It is, you know, it’s up there. I’ve never been to Alaska, and I’d love to see some Northern Lights, and I’d love to see some fricking moose. COLA: Oh, the Northern Lights, very nice. CARDEN: I’d love to see a big old damn moose. COLA: Yeah, yeah. And then together we’d like to go to Puerto Rico. CARDEN: [Laughs] Right, yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly. Season 2 is writing itself, is what you’re saying. CARDEN: Exactly. We’re like, “Season 2, tropical locations, please.” COLA: Yeah, we’re just sending the producers links. CARDEN: A coconut hut in Hawaii. COLA: I’m trying to go international, so we’ll be in touch. CARDEN: We’ll be in touch. COLA: We’ll be in touch, yeah.
‘Wild Vacation Rentals’ Carden and Cola Thrive in HGTV’s Unscripted Format

“It was almost too good to be true.”

Sherry Cola and D’Arcy Carden talking to the camera in Wild Vacation RentalsImage via HGTV

You’re both used to scripted TV and movies, so what was it like jumping into the world of unscripted entertainment? Was there a weird pressure to perform when you were supposed to be yourself? CARDEN: Great question. You know, I could see that being true, but for some reason, because Sherry and I have [Laughs] our brains are the way they are — Swiss cheese — it was so fun and easy. There was a little bit of a learning curve, like figuring out how this works, but the second we realized we didn’t need to plan anything, obviously, no lines to memorize. Once we figured out what the flow of the show was, it was just so fun and easy. Would you agree? COLA: Absolutely. I feel like we could do this… I want to say we can do this in our sleep, but now I’m just showing off. But the fact that we are beautiful and brilliant… CARDEN: [Laughs] True, I would agree. COLA: It’s not lost on me that this is just so much fun. CARDEN: So fun. COLA: Especially because D’Arcy and I were very fortunate to come off of a bunch of scripted projects, so it was almost refreshing that we could do this unscripted thing after doing a bunch of scripted and just kind of riff. For us, coming from live comedy, this is what keeps us sharp, especially because we’re both so good at riffing. We challenge each other in splendid ways as well. We’re just going. When I feel the most alive is when it’s unscripted and just organic human interaction. CARDEN: Yes, I agree. But also, I remember, like day one or two — because we’d both just come off of shows the week before or whatever — we sat down in our little hair and makeup chairs, and we realized, like, wait, we don’t have to go over lines? We don’t have to memorize? We just get to chit chat? Every morning, we sat with our hair and makeup gals we love so much, and we just, the four of us, just damn chit chat. I hate to be like, “we didn’t have to work,” but it wasn’t a lot of work. It was just plain fun. COLA: I will say though, this kind of work… it is hard work. We definitely worked very hard. We were fully on the road by definition. You know what I mean? CARDEN: Right. COLA: From the flights and the different hotels every night and the road trips and the middle of everywhere… it had its unpredictable factors. CARDEN: Right.

COLA: But the work itself, because we love what we do, and we’re so lucky to do it, it was almost too good to be true that we just could be ourselves. That’s what’s so cool about the fact that HGTV thought of us to co-host a show like this. CARDEN: It is true. This type of thing is not for everyone. Being yourself on camera is a little scary, and sometimes it’s nice to hide behind the character and the lines. I think what Sherry was saying, coming from live comedy and doing stuff on stage, it really did feel right in our safe zone. COLA: It’s kind of where we thrive, honestly. CARDEN: Yeah. Super fun. COLA: But also, we are dramatic actresses who can do a monologue. CARDEN: Hire us. COLA: And cry on cue. Shakespeare. CARDEN: Hamnet 2! Hamnet 2: The Squeakquel. COLA: Hamnet 2: The Streets. CARDEN: [Laughs] Yes. COLA: 2 Ham 2 Net. CARDEN: 2 Ham 2 Net. 2 Furious. You guys are so perfect for the show, and fans are going to love you in this, and they’re going to love you in Season 3 of Nobody Wants This. What can you tease about that? CARDEN: Honestly, nothing. Other than more of what you love! You love the show. You love those characters. Well, get ready for Season 3! COLA: Yeah. If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. CARDEN: Exactly. So fun. Such a good group. We’re so lucky and happy to be kissing those folks every day. Wild Vacation Rentals premieres March 2 at 10 p.m. EST with new episodes every Monday.

Release Date

March 2, 2026

Network

HGTV

Cast