This week’s picks include the bittersweet final season of homegrown hit Colin From Accounts, plus Aaron Chen’s pickleball comedy The Dink, a sombre retelling of The Bombing of Pan Am and Keanu Reeves’ angelic turn in Good Fortune.
Colin from Accounts (Binge) ★★★★ It’s bittersweet that Colin from Accounts’ third season is its last. The hit Australian romcom, created by and starring real-life couple Patrick Brammall and Harriet Dyer, has captured hearts around the world for good reason.
A sharp balance of rom and com, it’s been distinct and charming right from its first moments – a meet-cute for chaotic Sydney doctor in training Ash (Dyer) and craft brewery owner Gordon (Brammall) involving a nipple flash, a car accident and a shared $12,000 vet bill for a stray border terrier.
As a relationship formed around their new wheel-assisted dog (the show’s namesake), Colin from Accounts had an ease to its punchlines and cringe comedy thanks to a lived-in chemistry, plus a delightful balance of sweetness and acidity. Any one of those qualities can be hard to come by in the streaming era’s take on comedy, which tends to lean either absurd or overtly dramatic. The only thing more rare is a show going out on its own terms, which is why it’s difficult to be too upset that Brammall and Dyer announced that “creatively, it feels like the right time” for the series to end.
Patrick Brammall and Harriet Dyer return for the final season of Colin From Accounts. Binge So where to for Ash and Gordon? Season three picks up in the aftermath of Gordon’s impromptu drunken proposal at
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