Colin From Accounts

The final outing is a ripper. .... This is all about enjoying a ride packed with emotional punches, sharp dialogue and the kind of on-screen chemistry that comes when your leads are married in real life.

Why does it work? Yes, the comedy of embarrassment is supremely well-oiled. More than that, you simply root for the protagonists as they ironise their anxieties and awkwardness. .... Is certain to leave Colinophiles hankering for a third.

The final season’s lingering dilemmas aren’t unheard of, but the way they’re explored is unique, creative, and insightful.

It can be laugh-out-loud funny when it wants to be. This series seems to have saved all its best material for its third episode.

As we get to know the characters on a deeper level with each episode, it feels this show will just go from strength to strength - and long may it continue.

The show is so economical in setting up its characters – and not just for a fall – that halfway through this first run you realize Brammall and Dyer have achieved what it took Ricky Gervais and Quinta Brunson two seasons to master: get us caring for these stumblebums, and acknowledge that even bemused affection must count for something.

At times the writing needs to be sharper, and not quite so lavatorial, but this is winningly silly, lo-fi, character-led comedy with absurdist panache.