Will they, gained’t they? May they, ought to they? Unicycle or no unicycle, Ash and Gordon are attempting it once more. “Colin from Accounts” has been renewed for Season 3 — simply in time for American tax season! New episodes will stream solely on Paramount+ within the U.S. No air date was introduced.
“We’re very excited to convey you Season 3 of our present,” mentioned stars, creators, and real-life husband/spouse duo Patrick Brammall and Harriet Dyer in a press release. “To be sincere, with the way in which we ended Season 2 it might have been bizarre to not make a 3rd, so right here we’re. We promise we gained’t depart you hanging like that once more. Most likely.”
The darkish Australian rom-com — a couple of promiscuous medical scholar, a slacker brewery proprietor, and the stray canine they by accident paralyzed collectively — broke out as a shock hit with critical awards buzz final 12 months. A fragile mix of real love and typical courting terror, the sequence’ centerpiece romance has made Ashley Molden and Gordon Crapp two of probably the most beloved and complicated characters in streaming.
Additionally nominated for Finest Worldwide Sequence on the BAFTA TV Awards, “Colin from Accounts” gained two Gotham Awards and three Australian Logie Awards. Season 2 was critically acclaimed, leaving audiences devastated within the wake of a failed proposal. After Gordon asks Ash to marry him (throughout her greatest buddy’s marriage ceremony reception no much less), what might have been a young trade of a primary “I like you” collapses right into a public show of cataclysmic awkwardness that couldn’t be extra cringe-worthy if it tried.
The ending was nearly much more dire, mentioned Brammall and Dyer in an interview with IndieWire from final October. “It was simply Gordon and Ashley within the extensive after he proposed,” Brammall defined. “So after [Gordon] places the music again on — and it was nonetheless ‘Slice of Heaven’ — it’s a large body. They’re like on an island and also you’re like, ‘Oh, they’re fucking lifeless.’ They usually’re making an attempt to bop and it’s not working. After which individuals simply float in entrance of them and individuals are dancing. After which it’s over.”
That spectacularly bleak finale ended up getting tweaked when Dyer was reminded that “Colin from Accounts” had turn into a consolation present for many individuals. She mentioned then, “I assumed, ‘Oh, the [cut] that we despatched out half an hour in the past isn’t consolation meals. No.’ And so I actually texted Paddy and I used to be like, ‘We have to discover as a lot hope as we will.’”
Fingers crossed Ash and Gordon preserve hope alive in Season 3? Emma Harvie, Genevieve Hegney, Michael Emblem, Helen Thomson, Darren Gilshenan, Annie Maynard, Tai Hara, Glenn Hazeldine, Celeste Barber, Virginia Homosexual, Justin Rosniak, John Howard, Lynne Porteus, and Broden Kelly additionally starred in Season 2.
Watch IndieWire’s full dialog with Brammall and Dyer about “Colin from Accounts” Season 1.