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- 2023
- TV-MA
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- 2023
- TV-MA
- Apple TV+
Summary Former best friends Sylvia (Rose Byrne) and Will (Seth Rogen) are reunited and seek to become friends again in this comedy series co-created by Nick Stoller and Francesca Delbanco.
Created By: Francesca Delbanco, Nicholas Stoller
- 2023
- TV-MA
- Apple TV+
- 2023
- TV-MA
- Apple TV+
Platonic
Season 1 Premiere: May 24, 2023
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6.0
Summary Former best friends Sylvia (Rose Byrne) and Will (Seth Rogen) are reunited and seek to become friends again in this comedy series co-created by Nick Stoller and Francesca Delbanco.
Created By: Francesca Delbanco, Nicholas Stoller
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 25 Critic Reviews
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 25 Critic Reviews
75
80% Positive
20 Reviews
20 Reviews
16% Mixed
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
4% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
There is just something about Rogen’s nice Canadian Jewish boy shtick that works well with Byrne’s repressed party-girl sensibility. And the duo’s odd-but-not-really couple chemistry is made all the better when the actress is allowed to use her natural Australian accent.
Rogen is his comfort zone and delivers some of his finest work as the cynical yet idealistic Will, and Byrne reminds us of her crackling good physical comedy skills as the somewhat floundering Sylvia.
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User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 38 User Ratings
6.0
58% Positive
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26% Negative
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It's well written, well paced, well acted and doesn't even fall into the trap of putting her in an unhappy marriage. .... Here's a comedy worth your time.
It is not quite the platonic ideal of a modern buddy comedy – some episodes are a bit baggy and drain momentum, although it always picks back up – but it’s close.
Even when “Platonic” can be too enamored with its minor victory of simply representing a different kind of love, Byrne and Rogen will then do something together that’s funny or sweet or endearing. You can’t fake chemistry like that.
Whether it will join the league of Friends, New Girl and Will and Grace remains to be seen. But it is certainly off to a promising start.
It’s left with the worst of both worlds: neither the laughs of the former nor the insight of the latter. Two unpleasant people hanging out can be a good TV show. (Rest in power, “Difficult People.”) “Platonic” just isn’t.
Production Company:
- Sony Pictures Television
- Stoller Global Solutions
Initial Release Date: May 24, 2023
Number of seasons: 2 Seasons
Rating: TV-MA
Awards
I Talk Telly Awards
• 1 Nomination
