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Goodbye, Colin from Accounts: how TV’s loveliest comedy stuck the landing

theguardian.com · 7dShare

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...

First report: Creators devise exit strategy for ‘Colin from Accounts’ — tulsaworld.com, 9d