How the creators of the Apple TV+ series ‘Platonic’ blew up their plans for an anthology series can be summed up concisely: the chemistry between Seth Rogen and Rose Byrne was too good to give up.
Seija Rankin for The Hollywood Reporter:
When Nick Stoller and Francesca Delbanco started working on the first season of Platonic, they thought they were writing an anthology series. The concept they originally pitched to Apple TV+ was built around one season that would follow Seth Rogen and Rose Byrne‘s friendship, with subsequent seasons featuring entirely different stories and casts — like a period piece about women’s and men’s colleges becoming co-ed campuses in the 1970s and a work-wife/work-husband story. Then, about halfway through production of the first season, they realized they were having way too much fun with Rogen and Byrne to move on.
“They have such amazing chemistry together, and it was such a great experience, that we decided to ask them if they would be open to doing more, and they said yes,” Stoller tells THR. “And Apple, rightly so, felt like they were the show’s identity. I remember they said, ‘Who is going to want to watch a season two without them?’”
What that revelation meant for the show’s creators — who are also married and have three children together — was that they now had a brand new, and bigger, challenge as they started working on season two. “We had to blow up this neat little bow we’d originally tied at the end of the season,” says Delbanco. “We had told a complete story. But it wound up being a great creative exercise — we had to figure out, one chapter of their life is over, so now what are they doing to do? And through that we realized that where we first thought of the show as one snapshot of one time in their lives, we could actually tell stories about these two forever.”
MacDailyNews Note: Platonic‘s 10-episode sophomore season will premiere globally on Apple TV+ on Wednesday, August 6, 2025, with the first two episodes, followed by one episode weekly until October 1, 2025.
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Yah, that’s a HEALTHY concept! Not!
Two former childhood friends (okay, all good), both hetro (got it) reconnect as adults (okay…).
The woman is married with 3 kids…
The guy is recently divorced…
Together they reconnect (Bzzzzt!), they work through life challenges and push one another (bzzzzt!!!). Wrong. They hang out and go on dates (bzzzzzttt!)….
Sorry folks, this is all so wrong, and while a comedy, this is how Hollywood likes to skew and propganda-ize their ideologies to slowly have them become acceptable.
I’ve had a few friends that thought they could have females as friends when dating another gal or even when married. It all goes horribly wrong.
Simply put: You do not engage and create relationships with the opposite sex when married and start getting deeply involved with the other’s life if you plan on being married for much longer. It’s a total denial of reality. And this comedy is a total denial of reality and what happens in a relationship like this.
The false message that this is healthy and totally acceptable, is what makes it so unbelievable in the first place. But the pushing it is actually a good thing, with no horrible consequences down the road – that is laughable. But it helps promote this idea for sure, and of course it can be seen as a very soft 3-some (not sexual in the show of course), but a 3-some relationship, and that those are acceptable, healthy, normal and good. Bzzzzt!!!
Oh, and I can’t stand Seth Rogan is a pretty mean, crass, nasty guy. Just ask those around him.