“Platonic” (Season 2, 2025)
I loved the first season of “Platonic,” so I was super excited to hear it was coming back for seconds!
The show follows Sylvia (Rose Byrne) and Will (Seth Rogen), two long-time friends who are experiencing various upheavals in their life.
The start of season two finds Will relaxing into a corporate job in the food industry and happily engaged to his boss, while Sylvia’s relationship with her husband, Charlie (Luke Macfarlane), is as strong as ever and her event planning business is starting to take off.
Of course, everything going 100% smoothly wouldn’t make an interesting comedy show, so some plot points get thrown into the mix that get Sylvia and Will back into their usual hijinks.
Both Byrne and Rogen do a great job of balancing the absolute laugh-out-loud moments of “Platonic” with the high drama and tender moments that make it one of my favorite shows right now.
The blended chaos of Will’s chaotic single brewer adventures and the everyday stressors of Sylvia’s life as a neurotic mom of three who’s struggling to find her calling in life make “Platonic” a truly compelling watch.
I’ve been watching Rogen on TV since the days of “Freaks and Geeks” and “Undeclared,” and he is really having an amazing year between “Platonic” and “The Studio,” my favorite new show of the year.
Byrne is known for playing the villain or straight-laced one in a lot of comedies, so it’s been nice to see her go a little zany in “Platonic.”
The show was co-created and directed by Nicholas Stoller (alongside Francesca Delblanco), and I am a big fan of his comedies, including “Bros” and “Forgetting Sarah Marshall.”
Like all of Stoller’s projects, “Platonic” also has an incredible soundtrack, all the way up to a “You Only Live Once” by The Strokes moment in the season two finale.
The second season is just as engaging and entertaining as the first, and I breezed through all 10 episodes really quickly. I truly hope there is a third season, and the ending of the second season suggests that there might be.
If you’re a fan of any of the folks involved in this show, comedies and/or shows about friendship (all of the above for me!), I highly recommend giving “Platonic” a try. It will likely be the subject of a future pairing when I get back going on the Veg Out blog.