Review: Colin From Accounts

Colin From Accounts

It’s great fun and a joy to watch.

If the trailer for Australian sitcom Colin from Accounts leaves you with any misgivings get past them.

Created, written by, and starring real life married couple, Harriet Dyer and Patrick Brammall, it’s full of life, vibrant and funny to boot.

Their characters are thrown together through unfortunate circumstances initiated by uninhibited 29- year-old medical student Ashley (Dyer) who causes the driver of a car to have a collision. The driver is not, as you will soon discover, Colin from accounts but Gordon (Brammall), the 40 something owner of a micro-brewery.

Whilst they attempt to deal with the collateral damage of the collision, their relationship develops, going through an engaging rollercoaster of emotions and comic situations in the process.

The straight-talking Aussie humour is infectious throughout. Every character is relatable. Past relationships come in to the picture with exes and family members causing friction but it’s the kind of friction that ordinary people go through and so we have empathy their situation. Ashley is a normal millennial in the kind of position that apparently exists in Oz as it does in the UK. Scarcity of living accommodation, rising rents and financial pressures.

Gordon’s fledgling business is struggling especially with customers not paying bills on time (when do they ever?) His two business colleagues Chiara (Genevieve Hegney) and Brett (Michael Logo) help where they can but it’s ‘Colin’ that succeeds where others have failed.

There’s a lot going on in this brilliant sitcom. To relate some of it would spoil your enjoyment of discovery. You’ll find it difficult, if not impossible, to avoid binging the whole series over a couple of nights but as it’s on BBC and iPlayer you can rewatch and pick up on the lines you missed first time around.