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- Colin from Accounts premiered its third and final season, with the finale returning to the veterinary clinic from the 2022 pilot as a deliberate callback when a terse receptionist tells Gordon and Ashley she 'see[s] a lot of highly emotional pet owners every day.'
- Patrick Brammall and Harriet Dyer star as Gordon, a pub owner, and Ashley, a med student, whose meet-cute begins when they accidentally maim a runaway dog — and whose off-screen relationship fuels an on-screen chemistry the review likens to Tim and Dawn in the original UK Office.
- Patrick Brammall has been cast in The Devil Wears Prada 2 alongside Anne Hathaway, per the review, a leap from the 'solid but largely ignored cop comedy' that previously defined his overseas profile.
- Season three jumps three years past season two's finale, which ended with Gordon's ill-judged marriage proposal being humiliatingly rejected by Ashley; both leads are now in new relationships when the new season opens.
- Thomas Cocquerel plays David, a 'handsome but hopeless' trout farmer, and Nikki Shiels plays Chelsea, a corporate executive looking to unfreeze her eggs, as Ashley and Gordon's respective new partners who the review argues viewers 'immediately know' aren't right for them.
- The finale includes scene-stealing cameos from Broden Kelly and Mark Trevorrow, a police chase, and a handjob joke — and the reviewer explicitly compares its confident landing to the 'standout finale of Hacks earlier this year.'
Why it matters: For Patrick Brammall, Colin from Accounts has done what the article describes as transitioning him from a 'largely ignored cop comedy' to landing a role in The Devil Wears Prada 2 with Anne Hathaway — a concrete career escalation for a creator-star who also writes the show with Dyer. The review also frames the finale as part of a small 2025 cohort of comedies (alongside Hacks) that ended without overstaying their welcome, a notable counterpoint to streaming-era franchise creep.
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