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Colin from Accounts review — an offbeat rom-com with an earthy Oz twist

Also reviewed: Miss Scarlet and the Duke

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Colin from Accounts
BBC2
★★★★☆

Miss Scarlet and the Duke
Alibi
★★★☆☆

In the parlance of rom-coms it was a “meet-cute” — but with a difference. He slowed his car to let her cross the road, their eyes met across the bonnet, she smiled, he smiled, she exposed her breast . . . in shock, he drove into a dog, they dashed together to the vets and the rest of this Australian comedy is surely adorably inevitable. Or is it? If Ashley and Gordon become a thing, it doesn’t look as though it’ll be any time soon — TV is rarely so simplistic any more, and there’s too much bickering awkwardness to be had first.

Harriet Dyer and Patrick Brammall in Colin from Accounts
Harriet Dyer and Patrick Brammall in Colin from Accounts
BBC

The pair are gradually becoming surrogate parents for the recovering