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A weak year for rom-coms finally gets a truly great one
09.11.2023 - 17:05 / polygon.com / Seth Rogen
It has not been a vintage year for romantic comedies. (It hasn’t been a vintage year for this undervalued genre for quite some time.) There have been just a couple of brighter spots: Rye Lane’s colorful walk-and-talk through the streets of South London, Red, White & Royal Blue’s fanfic-adjacent queer romance. In series, Apple’s Platonic, with the ever-delightful pairing of Rose Byrne and Seth Rogen, attempted to twist the genre to focus on an obsessive, semi-toxic friendship. It found some rich material on the way, but predictably floundered when it came to the payoff because it had nowhere to go. This is the thing with rom-coms: More than almost any other genre, they are incredibly strictly codified, and you really do have to play them by the book.
The trick is to follow the rules while making it look natural. That’s exactly what Colin from Accounts does. This very funny, very charming Australian series, which debuts on Paramount Plus this week, works so well because it hits all the marks a rom-com needs to, but does so with a little bit of spice and a lot of casual, lived-in authenticity.
That authenticity might stem from the fact that the show’s stars and creators, Harriet Dyer and Patrick Brammall, are a real-life couple. That’s not necessarily a guarantee of on-screen chemistry, let alone the wit and perception to summon it on the page in the writing process. But Dyer and Brammall capture the exhilarating, painful, confusing frisson of two people realizing they’re into each other perfectly. They’re both just enormously likable, ensuring the most important love affair — between the audience and the characters — is also requited. (They both appear to be successful, jobbing TV actors you have probably heard of if you are Australian. Brammall provides a voice in Bluey, because of course he does.)
Dyer plays Ashley, a rootless, 29-year-old medical student recovering from a breakup. Brammall is Gordon, a terminally single, 40-something brewpub owner (actually an uncanny match for Rogen’s Platonic character) going through a premature hipster midlife crisis, complete with drum kit and unused unicycle. One morning, Ashley impulsively flashes a boob at Gordon as she crosses the street in front of his studiedly cool vintage Toyota, causing him to run over a stray dog. Suddenly the strangers find themselves jointly responsible for a dog with wheels for legs and 12,000 Australian dollars of vet bills, while Ashley finds herself homeless and searching for a pet-friendly apartment.
It’s a perfect setup, putting the pair in opposition (over the bills and Ashley’s living arrangements) at the same time as it throws them together, all instigated by a dash of anarchic sexual tension. It also means Colin from
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27.11.2023 / 18:21
Playtest One Of The Most Promising Zombie Games In Years For Free This Week
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gameranx.com
27.11.2023 / 18:07
PlayStation End Of Year Deals Promo Is Now Live
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gamespot.com
27.11.2023 / 18:05
The Best Gaming Headset For Consoles And PC Gets A Big Cyber Monday Discount
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gamesradar.com
26.11.2023 / 22:21
Tears of the Kingdom player replaces horses with a giant infinite-motion wheel, squishes horses to assert dominance: "The big wheel yearns for slaughter"
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destructoid.com
25.11.2023 / 15:52
A Half-Life bug that went unchecked for a quarter of a century finally gets fixed
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pcgamer.com
20.11.2023 / 18:23
Whether or not you're handy with a screwdriver, you can get a great RTX 4060 gaming laptop for under $800 this Black Friday
Gigabyte G5 | Core i7 12650H | RTX 4060 | 16GB DDR5-4800 | 512GB SSD | 15.6-inch | 1080p | 144Hz | $1,099.99 $799.99 at Best Buy (save $300)This is a lot of laptop for not very much money. To start with, you're getting a 10-core, 16-thread CPU that will easily cope with pretty much any game you throw at it. There's an RTX 4060 Mobile graphics chip too, that supports DLSS upscaling and frame generation. The storage is a bit disappointing, and you'll probably want to upgrade it at some point with a large SSD. For portable gaming and school work, though, this Gigabyte G5 laptop will keep you and your wallet happy.
gamesradar.com
17.11.2023 / 20:57
Modern Warfare 3 player finally gets coveted Borealis and Interstellar camos after a 195-hour Call of Duty grind with multiple 48-hour streams
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17.11.2023 / 18:17
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16.11.2023 / 16:49
New trailer for Sydney Sweeney’s R-rated rom-com is The Proposal meets Drive Me Crazy
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