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The second season of the critically acclaimed comedy “Platonic,” starring Seth Rogen and Rose Byrne, premieres globally August 6, 2025 on Apple TV+. How the creators of the Apple TV+
The second season of the critically acclaimed comedy “Platonic,” starring Seth Rogen and Rose Byrne, premieres globally August 6, 2025 on Apple TV+.
The second season of the critically acclaimed comedy “Platonic,” starring Seth Rogen and Rose Byrne, premieres globally August 6, 2025 on Apple TV+.

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.

Apple TV+ is available on the Apple TV app in over 100 countries and regions, on over 1 billion screens, including iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, Apple Vision Pro, Mac, popular smart TVs from Samsung, LG, Sony, VIZIO, TCL and others, Roku and Amazon Fire TV devices, Chromecast with Google TV, PlayStation and Xbox gaming consoles, and at tv.apple.com, for $9.99 per month with a seven-day free trial for new subscribers. For a limited time, customers who purchase and activate a new iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, Mac or iPod touch can enjoy three months of Apple TV+ for free.

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The second season of the critically acclaimed comedy “Platonic,” starring Seth Rogen and Rose Byrne, premieres globally August 6, 2025 on Apple TV+. How the creators of the Apple TV+
The second season of the critically acclaimed comedy “Platonic,” starring Seth Rogen and Rose Byrne, premieres globally August 6, 2025 on Apple TV+.
The second season of the critically acclaimed comedy “Platonic,” starring Seth Rogen and Rose Byrne, premieres globally August 6, 2025 on Apple TV+.

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.

Apple TV+ is available on the Apple TV app in over 100 countries and regions, on over 1 billion screens, including iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, Apple Vision Pro, Mac, popular smart TVs from Samsung, LG, Sony, VIZIO, TCL and others, Roku and Amazon Fire TV devices, Chromecast with Google TV, PlayStation and Xbox gaming consoles, and at tv.apple.com, for $9.99 per month with a seven-day free trial for new subscribers. For a limited time, customers who purchase and activate a new iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, Mac or iPod touch can enjoy three months of Apple TV+ for free.

Watch on Apple TV



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