Goodbye, Colin from Accounts: how TV’s loveliest comedy stuck the landing
For a show that started with a screech of car brakes and a wounded dog, Brammall and Dyer steer the finale home as if rolling comfortably down a familiar road The streaming age has no shortage of will-they-won’t-they romances – the good, the bad, the cosy, the smutty, the made-for-the-algorithm. How did Colin from Accounts manage to rise above the tropes? How, in just a few years, has Patrick Brammall’s overseas profile gone from a solid but largely ignored cop comedy, to getting headhunted to woo Anne Hathaway in The Devil Wears Prada 2? When I think of how Colin from Accounts first won me over in 2022, a moment in the first episode comes to mind. Two strangers, pub owner Gordon (Brammall) and med student Ashley (Harriet Dyer) sit in a cafe, making awkward small talk as they wait for the veterinary clinic next door to tell them whether the small runaway dog they’ve accidentally maimed will pull through. Continue reading...
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