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Positive:
32
Mixed:
6
Negative:
1
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Critic Reviews
Season 1 Review:
There is just something about Rogen’s nice Canadian Jewish boy shtick that works well with Byrne’s repressed party-girl sensibility. And the duo’s odd-but-not-really couple chemistry is made all the better when the actress is allowed to use her natural Australian accent.
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Season 2 Review:
There’s a layer of lived-in specificity that gives the show unexpected texture, body, and room to grow. It walks a fine line between depth and lightness, substance and ease, and feels like a show that could run for years. Lucky me: I would happily consume five more seasons of this.
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The TelegraphAug 6, 2025
Season 2 Review:
Everyone around Will and Sylvia gets jealous of their special relationship as a given, the comedy flip-flops between broad slapstick – in scenes oddly reminiscent of Some Mothers Do ‘Ave ‘Em, things inevitably go belly up whenever the pair get together – and the slyly subtle.
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The GuardianAug 5, 2025
Season 2 Review:
The show now asks whether Will and Sylvia should continue their mildly dysfunctional friendship. This question doesn’t provide quite enough direction or dramatic substance: the storylines are circular, the bickering is repetitive and there’s a distinct streaming-era bagginess to proceedings. Still, there remains a lot to enjoy here.
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Season 1 Review:
What Platonic gets right about the romantic-comedy genre, though, ultimately makes up for the show’s shortcomings. This show understands that, in art as in life, one of the great joys the world has to offer is the act of hanging out with someone who truly gets you, sharing french fries, in-jokes, and stories of your often boring, occasionally magical lives. I appreciated, too, the matter-of-factness with which both leads are presented as potential objects of romantic desire.
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The Mercury NewsAug 6, 2025
The Observer (UK)Sep 10, 2024
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