More Seth Rogen, more Rose Byrne, more comedy

Part of the advertising campaign for The bare weapon Legacy sequel was a trailer-spoofing charity advertising videos when Star Liam Needson asked the audience to buy a ticket and save the entire business of film comedies. Unfortunately, the joke was not too far from the truth. Theater comedies have had a rough appearance since Covid than most film genres because the audience decides to look at them in streaming and believe that they do not have to be seen on the big screen. This ignores the fact that only a few film experiences – a massive spectacle – are just as worthwhile as something funny in a fully packed theater that is laughed at the same time with people, but unfortunately it is the way things have disappeared. And as a result of PlatonicThe main role with Seth Rogen and Rose Byrne as a lifelong best friends is back this week for a second season, instead of being filmed after the two Neighbors Films.

For the decade after the publication of BeatenRogen was such a big name in the film comedy as everyone else. But the cash failure of Long shotHis extremely charming team 2018 with Charlize Theron collapsed with the entire deficit of the genre. The only live action theatrical films have been in which Rogen worked since 2020 Stupid money And The FabelmansIn a supportive role both times. An American cucumberHis last vehicle as the main actor landed on HBO Max, although this was one of many films that were pushed for streaming during the early Covid streaming.

Instead, Rogen did a lot of voice management and made a lot of television as a producer (The boys) or a multi-hyphenate on apple shows like the funny Hollywood satire The studio And PlatonicWhich is back after a two -year break. Rogen and Byrne were so well together in Neighbors (Directed by Nicholas Stoller, who was created together Platonic With Ms. Francesca Delbanco) and her stars were so high in the mid -2010s that it was not difficult to imagine as a potential blockbuster during this time. The premise of two people who are more devoted to his best friend than their respective romantic partners would be more than enough to support a feature film with half a dozen detailed comic offset, in which Rogen Byrne gets into trouble or vice versa. It would probably have been a very good film.

In this case, however, the loss of cinema was a lot on TV. The streaming era is littered with shows that clearly started life as a film script that could not sell and then tried to fill a 10-hour bag with two hours of history. However, most of them are dramas. Comedy – especially the type of comedy that Rogen, Stoller and their frequent employees like Judd Apatow prefer – can be more elastic. And once were Stoller and Rogen young writers on the short -lived college of Apatow UnmistakedThis is how the creater of the show knows how episodic storytelling works. When the hook of her project lets the viewers spectate in the company of two funny characters played by two actors with an excellent comic chemistry, more is actually more. And the episodes feel like actual episodes to solve with individual problems for Will and Sylvia – usually because one or both have created it – and a remarkable set piece to distinguish every rate from the others.

The premiere of the second season, for example, finds Sylvia – who quit her legal career in the first season and decided on an event planning

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As with most shows that have more than a year between the seasons, you will probably spend a few minutes at the beginning of the premiere, which last time. Of course, there are ongoing conflicts in the season, especially with regard to the respective partners of our heroes. Sylvia is worried that Jenna is not a good game – thankfully out of jealousy since then, since then

Platonic Is smart enough to stick to his title concept at any time, but because she can see, he will talk in too many aspects of the relationship. And Sylvia's holy husband Charlie (Luke MacFarlane) is frustrated again that his wife continues to put her college buddy. Delbanco, Stoller and the other authors found out very cleverly how this central tension is repeated. Charlie really enjoys the company from Will. And after MacFarlane has spent most of the first season to play by Byrne and Rogen, his character can go with the deep end even in a constant ornamental Danger! (This includes a Cameo by Ken Jenning.) This season, characters beyond Charlie often point out how dysfunctional will and Sylvia's friendship are, and there are variations of this basic idea – like a route in which will be more time with Sylvia's other best friend, Katie (Carla Galo, another

Unmistaked Alum), so that Sylvia is now the outdoor area. Mostly, however, but Platonic continues to work because Rogen and Byrne are so good together and because they are accommodated in so many situations that only feel a little more ridiculous than real life. Beck Bennett (one of several

SNL Alum to the guest star this year, together with Kyle Mooney and Aidy Bryant) Wild Card plays the third member of a trio of friends in college. Sylvia grows paranoid that Will and Wild Card are talking behind her back, so she puts her phone up to take her as she goes into the bathroom. When she later checks the audio, it is only an endless discussion about how hot the two boys find Sydney Sweeney – and at the same time try to show her many admirable properties. The first season had an ongoing gag in which his trouble constantly wanted to venture by littering the many scooters that were the sidewalks of Los Angeles; This year, its technological goals are delivery robots. (Can a crossover with John Mulaney's talk show be far away?) Now and then,

Leans a bit too much on scenes in which Will and Sylvia panic and shout each other at their latest catastrophe. But also some of these louder gags are great to find out how Sylvia detached a coyot that always depends on her lawn, or with a golf -related misfortune with Jenna's father (Sam McMurray), which is more disgusting than you can imagine. Trend stories I wish we had a healthy comedy film economy that Rogen and Byrne had in other films–at least more scene disorder work such as Rogen in The 40-year-old virginor byrne in spy . But it is difficult to complain about the actual version of

Platonic That is on TV again. The first two episodes of