Old School. Biblically Independent.
By Dustin Rowles | TV | September 11, 2026
The Office, Parks and Recreation, and The Good Place. Ted Lasso, Shrinking, and Trying. It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Curb Your Enthusiasm, and The League.
And now there is You’re the Worst, Catastrophe, and Colin from Accounts: Perfect thematic comedy trifectas. You can’t love one without loving the other two, and my god, do I love Colin from Accounts. You’re the Worst is the American version of the anti-romantic comedy, Catastrophe is the British version, and Colin from Accounts is the Australian version. Two people who are incredibly dysfunctional and work together so perfectly precisely because of how incredibly dysfunctional they are.
I’m reluctant to suggest that any of the three is superior to the others — recency bias certainly leans toward Colin from Accounts — but all three are completely hilarious, completely stripped of sentimentality, and yet all three still manage to needle at that ache in your heart. Because Gordon Crapp (yes, that’s his name) and Ashley are meant to be together. The audience knows it. The real-life couple who created, wrote, and star in the show (Patrick Brammall and Harriet Dyer) know it. It’s really just a matter of these two screwed-up characters figuring it out for themselves.
Watch all three seasons. You can binge them in a day. If you start, you won’t stop. If you’ve already seen the first two, the third picks up three years after the devastating second season finale — which ends with a drunken Gordon proposing to Ashley at the most incredibly awkward, inopportune moment. From what we quickly learn, Ashley left for two and a half years for work and met another guy. He’s entirely wrong for her. Gordon is about to move in with his girlfriend, who seems like the perfect woman until you scratch a little beneath the surface.
They’ve both settled, but when they see each other again — because Gordon ends up in her clinic for a physical — it’s clear the connection is still there. They try to deny it because they believe they’re terrible for each other and they’re in committed, stable relationships. But we know. Everyone knows. The third and final season is really just a matter of these two figuring it out without sabotaging themselves. Or, rather, in spite of their self-sabotage.
There’s also the dog — Colin from Accounts — who continues to act as a convenient plot device to keep them in each other’s orbits. But even without the dog, the gravitational pull would be too strong. It’s not even fate, which this show deftly illustrates is just a convenient excuse not to make a decision. It’s chemistry. Just this unbelievable, bittersweet, funny chemistry that has no other choice.
They belong together. I love them. Give them a shot. You will, too.
The third and final season of ‘Colin from Accounts’ is now streaming on Paramount+.
