No ulterior motive, just a chance for two close friends to not be completely banished from each other’s lives. Spending years apart after a falling out, Will’s crumbling marriage gives Sylvia a chance to catch up. Rogen (Will, a recent divorcee and brewmaster at a trendy downtown LA pub) paints with rants and references like a gravelly voiced watercolorist, rattling off reasons to be upset or angry like he’s capturing a Parisian countryside. Byrne (here, playing listless and married mother of three Sylvia) is a physical comedy sorceress, turning everything from the process of getting ready in the morning to being repulsed by reptiles into its own distinct kind of laugh. If anything, the new Apple TV+ show “ Platonic” is a showcase for the things that each of them are unspeakably good at doing. As a team, Rose Byrne and Seth Rogen by themselves could will anything to watchability.
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