Watching: A hilarious buddy comedy
A zany and hilarious buddy comedy returns
Dear Watchers,The second season of the delightful Apple TV+ comedy "Platonic," which debuts with two episodes on Wednesday, remains dedicated to its guiding principle that men and women really can be just friends. It also doubles down on its other message: Most everyone you meet is a total mess. Created by the husband-and-wife team Francesca Delbanco and Nicholas Stoller, "Platonic" follows Will (Seth Rogen) and Sylvia (Rose Byrne), best friends from college who reconnected after his divorce. As the title implies, Will and Sylvia have no sexual chemistry, even though their closeness is initially suspicious to everyone in their orbit. They are just really good, sometimes incredibly toxic, buddies. When the second season opens, Will is on the verge of marrying again. This time, he is engaged to the completely incompatible Jenna (Rachel Rosenbloom), his boss at the corporate job he took at the end of Season 1, when he seemed to be getting his life together. Sylvia, a mother of three, is now working as an event planner, and she is in charge of organizing the wedding. She has her doubts about the union, especially given that Will, an impulsive beer brewer, seems to be trying to change his personality completely in order to match that of the WASP-y Jenna. She refuses to curse and calls him "Penguini" because of their apparent mutual love of penguins. They aren't an obvious pair. Not that Sylvia's life is a picture of stability. Byrne is a hilarious marvel in the role as she tries desperately to mask her insecurities with a smile. Rogen, meanwhile, cloaks his own anxieties in absurd aging hipster get-ups with way too many patterns. Together, Byrne and Rogen — co-stars in the "Neighbors" movies, directed by Stoller — are a perfect and perfectly self-destructive duo, his false chillness bouncing off her intense desire to please people. This season, Will and Sylvia's chaos starts to infect everyone around them, specifically Sylvia's husband, Charlie (Luke Macfarlane), a handsome lawyer who also starts unraveling as he realizes his nice, boring job isn't really what he wants out of life. Macfarlane emerges as the season's M.V.P., his jolly good nature curdling into something desperate and silly. As miserable at this exploration of middle-age malaise may sound, it isn't. It is really funny to watch these adults flail — sometimes quite literally with shocking bits of physical comedy. Also this week
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