Colin From Accounts

Available on BBC iPlayer

Catastrophe is just about the only series I can recall that came close to accurately depicting the real-life complexity of falling in love. You know, the initial giddiness followed by the frightening realisation that, in order to get your happy ever after, you’re going to have to work through all your long-standing neuroses and try to be the best version of yourself that you can be?

Anyone that has truly experienced it will tell you that finding ‘the one’ is simultaneously one of the best and hardest things that can happen to you but, aside from Rob Delaney and Sharon Horgan’s aforementioned show, few romcoms seem to truly understand that. Hallelujah, then, for Colin From Accounts.

Created and written by husband-and-wife team Patrick Brammall and Harriet Dyer (who also star as main characters Gordon and Ashley), this whip-smart series follows two singletons who are brought together by a freak occurrence involving a flashing, a car crash, and an injured dog whom they decide to adopt and name Colin. From there, they slowly begin to fall in love and are subsequently faced with the momentous task of, for want of a better expression, getting their shit together.

Like any good romcom, the beauty of Colin From Accounts is not in its fleeting dramatic moments, but rather the gradual evolution of its two leads as they expose their vulnerabilities to one another and realise that life is all the sweeter when you decide to face up to your trauma. It is a funny, expertly written, and beautifully acted affair and, thankfully, has already been renewed for a second season, which should hopefully air later this year.