Seth Rogen and Rose Byrne wanted to disrupt onscreen relationships. Enter 'Platonic'
"When Harry Met Sally" (1989): Men and women can't just be friends.
"Platonic" (2023): men and women can just be friends, even after unknowingly snorting cocaine laced with ketamine.
In the Apple TV+ series, which premiered in May and dropped its fifth episode on Wednesday, Seth Rogen and Rose Byrne play estranged besties who rekindle their friendship at pivotal junctures in their lives. Sylvia (Byrne) is a married mother of three children who feels stuck in a loop of her housewife duties, while Will (Rogen) is a middle-aged hipster and bar co-owner going through a divorce. After spending their early adult years hanging out without making out, the two drifted apart after Will got married. But now, reunited, the pair are both rediscovering their friendship and themselves at a more mature stage in their lives.
This isn't a will they, won't they. They never will.
"There's been many studies on how important those friendship relationships [are] and how much happiness they bring into your life as opposed to a romantic relationship or a sibling relationship," Byrne says. "It's a source of real, I think, security and comfort and steadiness. It's work, though. The best friends in my life, it's about upkeep and continuing — and a lot of my friends don't live where I live. But as I get older, I just treasure them more and more."
The series reunites Byrne and
