Seth Rogen and Rose Byrne have had fairly the pivot. In Neighbors and Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising, they had been husband and spouse. Within the first season of their Apple TV+ collection Platonic, they’re former finest associates who’re, properly, platonic and that’s that. The debut season was a winner in 2023 (the 93-percent score on Rotten Tomatoes is fairly nice), faring properly sufficient to land the present a second run.
The new season, from co-creators Nick Stoller and Francesca Delbanco, lands on Apple TV+ quickly, so earlier than that, take a look at all the pieces you’ll want to know concerning the upcoming episodes.
Plot
Apple beforehand noted of the primary season, “Platonic follows a platonic pair of former finest associates approaching midlife who reconnect after a protracted rift. The duo’s friendship turns into all consuming — and destabilizes their lives in a hilarious manner.” Of the brand new season, they say it “picks up with everybody’s favourite pair of finest associates as they cope with new midlife hurdles, together with work, weddings and companions in crises. The duo tries their finest to be one another’s rock — however generally rocks break issues.”
They’re not getting collectively this time, both, as Stoller and Delbanco told The Hollywood Reporter.
Rogen beforehand told the publication of constructing the second season:
“Actually, we had talked about it in the course of the first season, however I get actually nervous about the way it’s going to be obtained. I’m not a count-your-eggs-before-they-hatch man. I’ve carried out that factor the place I drive round Friday night time of opening weekend for my motion pictures and go to the theaters and there’s nobody in them. I actually simply needed to see if we had been proud of it when it got here out — and if everybody else was proud of it. I used to be form of nervous about how excessive my requirements had been for what we had been doing, and I needed to make it possible for we might really do it. After which as soon as I noticed that we might, I used to be like, ‘OK, we must always hold doing it.’”
Forged
Rose Byrne and Seth Rogen will return, and likewise current can be Carla Gallo, Luke Macfarlane, Tre Hale, and Andrew Lopez.
New to the cast for the second season are Aidy Bryant, Kyle Mooney, and Beck Bennett (all Saturday Night time Stay mainstays within the 2010s).
Launch Date
The new season is about to premiere on August 6 on Apple TV+.
Trailer
Try the Platonic season 2 teaser beneath.
