'Platonic' Season 2: Seth Rogen and Rose Byrne are back with Apple's best comedy

Copyright © HT Digital Streams Limit all rights reserved. Raja sen 4 min Read 10 Aug 2025, 01:34 pm ist Rose Byrne and Seth Rogen in ‘Platonic’ Summary ‘Platonic’, in his new and improved second season, is funny, smart and insightful that there are times that friends are fighting when there are no blows. In the second season of the extraordinary Apple TV+ comedy Platonic, we see Rose Byrne’s Sylvia and Seth Rogen will really do it. She is significantly upset about the lines he crossed. He is aggrieved that these lines exist in the first place. Both are indignant and wounded and hurt, and have it with that cruel honesty that was only granted to true friends. Then, the middle of the fight, will joke. This is not a very good line, but Sylvia, middle fight, is immediately obliged to recognize and even praise this clumsy innuendo. Palms are slapped, fives are exchanged, but the argument continues. Respect. This is what holds a friendship together. I thoroughly enjoyed the first season of Platonic in 2023, mainly because the show – created and directed by Francesca Delblanco and Nicholas Stoller – understood how essential it is to keep old friendships alive as we get older ourselves, as well as the fact that a true friendship can often be completely unlawful for those who are outside. They do not get the codes dependence, the over -confidence, the exceeding, the exact aroma of the nuts – and they do not have to. By destroying the Will-their-Wont and theirs who hold the most sitcom twins in place, Platonic keeps the chemistry fresh from the beginning. We do not root at Will and Sylvia because we want them to end together, but because we each have our own will and our own Sylvias. The second season tests the uncondition of their dynamics with Sylvia hired to run Will’s upcoming wedding. Catastrophy is not only threatening, but inevitable. Therefore, even if their worlds take turns, we want more than ever before to have each other. And not to get a fight in the way of a cunning pun. Or vice versa. Rogen is, as you know, on a tear. The studio, the Hollywood satire he created for Apple TV+, is a hit and a critical favorite, all for many awards. The show is cinematic and cool and no -made – and I love it – but Platonic, in his new and improved second season, feels even funnier and smarter and more informative. Rogen’s will is that slacker-man child we love, straight out of the Judd Apatow films, and in one hilarious scene, a character says he laughs of Rogen’s signature and calls it unique and contagious. “Thanks,” Rogen says, surprised. “I honestly had nice mixed reviews about it.” Mixed reviews look like a thing of the past for Rogen, which seems increasingly assured as an artist and a storyteller. However, Platonic belongs to Byrne. The Australian actress has always been compelling and charismatic, but it is here by her three children and pets too much and a man who wants to write a legitimate paperback-for delivering the performance of her career. Most of the jokes of the show are on Sylvia. She is the uncooled one in the show, not just for her children (one of whom she says she has ‘news release hair’) or her fame customer, but even for Will, who seems to enjoy hanging more with other women. Her friends included. “A person from my world is forbidden for you,” she warns Will, who is confused by the line, “What is it, avatar? ‘Playing the straight man in a gags-filled show is an ungrateful work as a mother who was forced to clean up to children who, thanks to two advocates as parents, are effective blackmail-but still within Byrne’s exhausted performance that Platonic finds his heart. This season she is the one who cannot afford to be irresponsible, even if the world flies around her. She is the lamb, the tired one, the one I laugh about when she tries to draw a voice or tell a joke, and yet she also has to find the reserves to call someone at her age to crush a girl with a deadpool tattoo. It is a wonderful tired and clapped performance, all the eye and sigh and mumble under your breath. Platonic paints an exciting picture of Los Angeles, and along with the studio and Larry David’s Curb your enthusiasm, this comic La chronics give us a vivid taste of a sunny and dirty and messy city, gradually overpowering by robots. The writing is wonderful, always smart, but never tries too hard. For example, there is one inspired sequence, where two men sit around in their forties and drink beer and are constantly about one specific actress. “Sydney Sweeney is opposed,” will Marvels. “She’s like a Frank Lloyd Wright building.” The man he talks to is called ‘Wild Card’. He is a remnant of Will and Sylvia’s past, the anarchist friend of college who was always on track and bad decisions. He comes from the city for Will’s Bachelor Party, and has brought Gummies-which is mostly CBD oil, sugar and good for joints. He is also increasingly eager to hit the bag, a fact that breaks the hearts of Will and Sylvia. The two best friends, who are combated as they were all season, are briefly united and make cruel jokes against an ordinary and sleepy target. This is life for you. Sometimes the wild maps of our past appear to be soft cards. All that is important is that we laugh at them. Streaming Tip of the Week: Friendships were rarely as iconic-or so funny-like Mike Judge’s Beavis and Butt-Head, which is now flowing on Jiohotstar. The show is not as funny as in the MTV high, but their kind of disrespectful, slacker commentary is perhaps just more needed in these -communicated times. Raja Sen is a screenwriter and critic. He has co-written chup, a film about killing critics, and now creating an absurd comedy series. He posts @rajasen. Catch all the business news, market news, news reports and latest news updates on Live Mint. Download the Mint News app to get daily market updates. More Topics #Features Read Next Story