A Seth Rogen comedy series is still a streaming hit a month after its premiere. A highly successful genre on streaming services, comedies are often among the top shows on streaming. However, the charts reveal that the top streaming comedies are often classic shows that stopped airing years ago.
As of September 2025, some of the top streaming comedy shows include Ted Lasso, Modern Family, How I Met Your Mother, and iCarly. Since streaming viewers often turn to classic like those shows for laughs, it is impressive that Rogen’s comedy series has shown staying power on the charts.
On top of being a streaming hit, the comedy series has also earned an incredibly impressive Rotten Tomatoes score. Rogen’s highest ranked movies on Rotten Tomatoes include 50/50, The Disaster Artist, Knocked Up, Superbad, Kung Fu Panda, and Steve Jobs. The hit comedy series still managed to get a higher Rotten Tomatoes score than any of those movies.
Seth Rogen’s Platonic Is A Streaming And Critical Hit
The second season of Seth Rogen and Rose Byrne’s comedy series, Platonic, premiered on August 6, 2025, and is a streaming hit. After the first two episodes premiered together on that day, new episodes have been released weekly. Even though many shows see diminishing viewer numbers as a season progresses, Rogen and Byrne’s show is still going strong.
As of September 3, Platonic was the fourth most-watched show on AppleTV+. On that same date, the sixth episode of the show’s ten-episode second season was released. Since many shows see dwindling numbers when they reach the mid-part of a season, that speaks to how many viewers have embraced the show.
Platonic has also been extremely successful on Rotten Tomatoes since the show currently holds a 96% Tomatometer score overall. Platonic‘s positive reviews become even more impressive when considering that season 2 holds a 100% Tomatometer score.
What This Means For Platonic
On the surface, it seems like Platonic becoming a hit with critics and viewers simultaneously shouldn’t have happened. As a show about a woman and man who rekindle their childhood friendship as adults, the premise seems to dismiss the possibility that most shows are based around. Based on its concept, Platonic practically forbids the idea that its lead characters will fall in love.
Even though Platonic season 2 won’t embrace the dynamic that it seems like almost every TV producer thinks is a must-have, it has become successful in every way. That clearly means that viewers are interested in seeing a wider array of stories told in the television format. Hopefully, there will be more TV producers who learn that lesson.
Throughout television history, there have been several shows that would be better without romance forced into their plots. If the success of Platonic proves anything, it is that TV producers need to learn from those mistakes and not force romance into shows that don’t need it.
Platonic
8/10
- Release Date
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May 23, 2023
- Network
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Apple TV+
- Showrunner
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Nicholas Stoller
