Most on-screen friendships between men and women ultimately turn romantic — even if it takes seven seasons, as it did with Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully in "The X-Files." But Apple TV+ comedy "Platonic," whose second season began airing in early August, is unique in that it's based on a purely non-amorous relationship. Rose Byrne plays Sylvia, a suburban mom suffering quietly from middle-aged ennui who reconnects with her free-spirited college buddy Will (Seth Rogen) after his divorce. The show's most persuasive gimmick is that Will and Sylvia, whose hilarious, drug-fueled hijinks often jeopardize both their jobs and relationships, have absolutely no interest in one another romantically. This makes them part of a very small group of TV characters who maintained such boundaries. Here ar

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