Seth Rogen and Rose Byrne are modern comedy’s best male-female duo, and they cement that status with the second season of Apple TV+’s Platonic.

The story of a fortysomething man and woman trying to maintain a non-sexual friendship amidst familial, marital, and career ups and downs, creators/writers/directors (and real-life husband-and-wife) Nicholas Stoller and Francesca Delbanco’s hilarious series, returning Aug. 6, is a testament to amusing chemistry. Rogen and Byrne are so ideally well-paired—his ragamuffin slacker wiseassery meshing perfectly with her frazzled put-together anxiety and wannabe-cool awkwardness—that they make it TV’s most steadfast laugh-out-loud affair.

The duo may not quite yet be Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz (or Mike Nichols and Elaine May, or Jerry Stiller and Ann

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