Why Platonic Season 2 Undoes Will And Sylvia’s Happy Endings

August 9, 2025

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Platonic‘s first season may have ended on a positive note for its main characters, but the second season’s premiere brings back the chaos, and the reason for shaking things up in the writer’s room has been revealed. At the end of Platonic‘s debut season, Will (Seth Rogen) and Sylvia (Rose Byrne) are living in separate cities, but they’re both happy.

While Sylvia and Will’s friendship is strong when Platonic season 1 concludes, things feel rockier at the beginning of season 2. Sylvia is planning Will’s wedding to Jenna, but Will is having cold feet. Sylvia seems unhappy, and she tries to push her friend into going through with his wedding so she doesn’t lose out on a job.

During an interview with ScreenRant, Platonic co-creator Francesca Delbanco discussed why she and Nicholas Stoller felt the need to make things messier for the character in Platonic when things sort of felt wrapped up with a bow at the end of season 1. Delbanco felt as though everything working out for the characters wouldn’t make great television. Check out her comments below:

“I mean, a show about two people in really happy places hundreds of miles apart from each other isn’t much of a show. [Laughs] So I guess, without spoiling too much, we did feel that in order to make a new season, we needed to kind of rough things up for them, and not have things go [smoothly]. They do end in a really happy way at the end of season 1, and we kind of undid some of that and made things a little bit more complicated, and made them feel more ambivalent about some of the choices that they made in order to get us the dramatic tension we needed for a second season.”

What This Means For Platonic Season 2

Seth Rogen and Rose Byrne as Will and Sylvia at a shop in the Platonic finale

Since the first two episodes of Platonic season 2 contained plenty of drama, the upcoming episodes are expected to continue the trend of more tension between the characters. Delbanco expressed that the show is less exciting when the characters are living their best lives. The scripts will continue with the cringe comedy, making the audience feel extreme second-hand embarrassment.

Platonic season 2 consists of 10 episodes that air weekly on Apple TV+.

Critics and audiences are praising Platonic equally, and part of what appeals to people is the dramatic conflict between the show’s central friends and the continuous disparity of their lives. Keeping the drama as an integral part of the show’s second season will make it so that fans don’t feel alienated when they tune in for their favorite comedy show.

Our Take On Keeping The Chaos For Platonic Season 2

Rose Byrne and Seth Rogen in Platonic season 2 — Courtesy of AppleTV+

As sad as it is for the characters, Platonic is a clever comedy TV show that is more entertaining when the characters’ lives are a mess, making it one of the best TV shows on Apple TV+ right now.

Changing the tone from the end of season 1 to the beginning of season 2 was a smart idea. It would be less engaging to watch a season of Platonic where everyone is getting along, and the conflict is gone.

And while it was nice to see Will and Sylvia happy, that doesn’t feel true to their characters. Based on their development in Platonic season 1, it feels more realistic for both Will and Sylvia to be in a state of emotional peril, and that helps make Platonic a comedy that breaks the mold.