Platonic

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Platonic is an ten (half-hour) episode Comedy TV Series streaming the first three episodes on May 24, 2023 on Apple TV+. 

Friends don’t let friends have mid-life crises alone. 

Will and Sylvia attempt to prove it’s totally possible for a man and a woman to be just friends. 

Platonic follows a platonic pair of former best friends who met in their youth, Will and Sylvia, approaching midlife, who reconnect as adults and try to mend the rift that led to their falling out. The duo’s friendship becomes all-consuming and destabilizes their lives in a hilarious way and causes them to reevaluate their choices.

Rose Byrne as Sylvia

Seth Rogen as Will

Tre Hale as Andy, Will’s friend and his business partner
Carla Gallo as Katie, Sylvia’s best friend

Luke Macfarlane as Charlie, Sylvia’s husband
Guy Branum as Stewart, Charlie’s confidante and a partner at the law firm where he works
Andrew Lopez as Reggie, the main investor in Will’s brewery
Alisha Wainwright as Audrey, Will’s ex-wife
Janet Varney as Vanessa, one of Charlie’s colleagues
Emily Kimball as Peyton, one of Will’s romantic interests
Vinny Thomas as Omar, a young assistant brewer at Will’s brewery

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Platonic     May 24, 2023    Apple TV+    

Episodes 1-3   Titles and Descriptions

Spoiler

S01.E01: Pilot

After a long rift in their friendship, Sylvia reunites with her old best friend, the newly divorced Will.

S01.E02: Gandalf the Lizard

Will accompanies Sylvia to an open house. Sylvia helps Will sneak into his ex-wife’s home to get the rest of his stuff and make a clean emotional break.

S01.E03: Partner's Retreat

While Sylvia’s husband attends a conference, she spends the day getting drunk with Will— who informs her about a development with his bar.

[Harvey]

Well I was going to watch this, but disappointed to see it was not a full season drop. What is this, 2009? Maybe later once it's all out.

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22 minutes ago, Harvey said:

Well I was going to watch this, but disappointed to see it was not a full season drop. What is this, 2009? Maybe later once it's all out.

Come back after July 12, 2023.

[aghst]

Good reviews, there are about a dozen top critic reviews on RT.

Seems to be the best-reviewed Apple TV + show in a couple of months.  Drops of God is 100% top critics but only like a handful of reviews.

[Dminches]

I enjoyed the first 2 episodes. Byrne and Roger have very good chemistry. They clearly enjoyed working together in the Neighbors movies.

I am a little confused about Byrne’s accent on the show. She is definitely not hiding her Australian accent even though it is watered down.  Given that their characters were friends from way back when, I don’t see when the character could have picked up an Australian accent. Just curious.

 

[Jillybean]

21 hours ago, Dminches said:

I am a little confused about Byrne’s accent on the show. She is definitely not hiding her Australian accent even though it is watered down.  Given that their characters were friends from way back when, I don’t see when the character could have picked up an Australian accent. Just curious.

 

Aren't they friends from college?

[Dminches]

3 hours ago, Jillybean said:

Aren't they friends from college?

The description says “former childhood friends reconnect as adults..”

 

[Snazzy Daisy]

This show truly relies heavily on the dynamic and chemistry between its 2 leads. Story wise, there’s nothing new & exciting about it. I hope this show stays true to its title and isn’t gonna be like When Harry Met Sally.🤞🏻

I like Rose Byrne but am (barely) tolerating Seth Rogen. Episode 1 and 2 are quite enjoyable. Episode 3 not so much.

Am glad they don’t make Charlie a jerk (for now). Please let him stays this way.

 

Edited May 26 by Snazzy Daisy

[Dminches]

2 hours ago, Snazzy Daisy said:

This show truly relies heavily on the dynamic and chemistry between its 2 leads. Story wise, there’s nothing new & exciting about it. I hope this show stays true to its title and isn’t gonna be like When Harry Met Sally.🤞🏻

I like Rose Byrne but am (barely) tolerating Seth Rogen. Episode 1 and 2 are quite enjoyable. Episode 3 not so much.

Am glad they don’t make Charlie a jerk (for now). Please let him stays this way.

 

 

Agreed.  Episode 3 was awful. Too many extended Rogen monologues about nothing and Byrne’s character doing stupid things that no normal person would do.

 

[skotnikov]

I really enjoyed the first 3 episodes. It is trash,  it knows it is trash, and Luke McFarlane is such a bad actor in comparison to Rogen and Byrne, that every time he is in the frame it's cringe.  

[Turtle Wexler]

I’m enjoying the dynamic between Sylvia and Will, but am not as Wowed by this as the critics’ reviews I’ve seen suggest I should be.

On 5/24/2023 at 7:45 PM, Dminches said:

I am a little confused about Byrne’s accent on the show. She is definitely not hiding her Australian accent even though it is watered down.  Given that their characters were friends from way back when, I don’t see when the character could have picked up an Australian accent. Just curious.

In the third episode, when Sylvia and Charlie arrive, someone (I forget his name) comments that she’s from Australia, and later in the episode, when Sylvia and Will are at the diner, she says, “It’s your country; you explain it,” when Will asks why there’s a photo of Rosa Parks next to one of kids eating ice cream.  Maybe Wil spent part of his childhood in Australia? 
 

Does anyone know the song (no lyrics) that was playing during the closing credits of ep. 2? It also played when Will and Sylvia were leaving Audrey’s. I’ve searched using Google and visited the first several hits with no luck.

[aghst]

So she went to college in the US even though she's Australian?

The Big Door Prize had Chris O'Dowd living in TX as an Irish expat who married American and also went to school in the US.

 

Maybe these actors got tired of doing an American accent.

Or maybe Apple wants more accents, since they air a lot of shows made in other countries with foreign casts like Bad Sisters and Trying, Pachinko, etc.

[Corgi-ears]

nvrmd

Edited May 30 by Corgi-ears

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S01.E04: Divorce Party

Sylvia throws a divorce party for Will to cheer him up, but it gets out of hand when his rowdy friends try to take control of the night.

Premiere Date: May 31, 2023      Apple TV+    

[Kiki620]

I'm finding this pretty funny and enjoyable.  Sylvia refusing to go back to work and just getting to goof around all day with her bestie is annoying, but probably just part of her arc.  Will has anger issues.  Also irritating that such an unattractive guy can get much, much younger, good looking ladies to marry and date him.  "I thought that was my Uncle" was pretty hilarious so I'm glad they called it out.

I had a best guy friend in college.  Our adult friendship basically cooled too when he married an awful woman.  If I suddenly resurrected that friendship, ran around with my bestie all day while my husband worked, and then crawled into bed at almost 4 in the morning after being out all night with him, let's just say I hardly think my husband would be as supportive and understanding as Charlie is so far appearing to be.  And that goes both ways, no way in hell would I tolerate it if the roles were reversed.  Really weird and kind of pathetic on both of their parts.    

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S01.E05: My Wife’s Boyfriend

Unnerved by the closeness of Will’s relationship with Sylvia, Charlie invites Will to join him and his coworkers at a baseball game.

Premiere Date: June 7, 2023      Apple TV+