‘Colin From Accounts’ Season 2 Remains TV’s Best, Most Underrated Rom-Com
We’re in an era where audiences are so starved for romantic comedy outside of cutter-cookie Hallmark schmaltzfests and algorithmic Netflix originals that Anyone But You grossed more than $200 million. Yes, that truly obnoxious Much Ado About Nothing reimagining which asked us to a) believe two leads photogenic enough to have just stepped off a Parisian catwalk were eternally unlucky in love and b) overlook how their inherent self-obsession essentially hijacked their mutual friends’ dream wedding. That Anyone But You.
Small screen sitcom Colin from Accounts is, like Anyone But You, also set in Sydney and features an adorable dog. But as anyone who watched its glorious first season will already know, that’s where the similarities end. Charming, funny, relatable, heartfelt, logical, and not relying on a 20-year-old Natasha Bedingfield song for an emotional crux, it’s very much the anti-Anyone But You. And its return to Paramount+ on Sept. 26 again highlights how the rom-com has recently been so badly underserved.
We last saw on/off couple Gordon (Patrick Brammall), a fortysomething, testicular cancer survivor who proudly runs a local craft brewery, and Ashley (Harriet Dyer, last seen in canceled-before-its-time American Auto), a millennial trainee nurse as acerbic as she is insecure, recognizing they needed to give things another go. Perhaps even more importantly, they also recognized they needed to retrieve the titular, wheelchair-bound border terrier who brought them together.