Platonic

At a certain age, friendships start getting weird. Everybody's busy. Everybody's tired. Half your friends are married with kids, the other half are in expensive apartments pretending they've "figured things out." And sometimes the people most capable of derailing your life are the ones you still answer immediately when they call.

Welcome to Platonic. Seth Rogen and Rose Byrne play former best friends reconnecting years later while both stumbling through adulthood.

Sure, this show feels a little too familiar. But no one can deny Rogen and Byrne are ridiculously watchable together. He's a recently divorced brewery owner running his life like he's still in his twenties. She's a married mom realizing stability and fulfillment are not always the same thing.

For a while, the show settles into a fun groove: awkward dinner parties, marriage stress, workplace disasters, and too many drinks on weeknights. They have effortless chemistry — the kind where you instantly buy years of history, inside jokes, and unresolved damage between them.

And every once in a while, the show lands a joke that hits like the spicy shishito pepper that knocks out your sinuses. Seth Rogen walking through a sliding glass door is one of the funniest moments of the season.

But then it settles into familiarity again. Watching an episode feels like slipping back into the studio-comedy era of the aughts. Platonic isn't bad. It's just much easier to like than love.