Harriet Dyer says ‘people would be mad’ if there’s not more Colin from Accounts after season two while in Sydney for premiere

The real-life couple behind Colin from Accounts tease a third season of the hit Aussie comedy before its S2 red carpet premiere. ‘I think people would be mad if we didn’t resolve it,’ Dyer teased of the finale.

Harriet Dyer turned a writing exercise into a romantic comedy with her real-life husband, and it swept the world. Colin From Accounts – the couple’s smash-hit romantic comedy about two lonely people brought together by public nudity and a disabled dog – is back.

“If season one was a question of: ‘Will they, won’t they?’ wind up together …”

“Season two is — should they have?” Patrick Brammall told The Daily Telegraph ahead of its red carpet premiere at Marrickville’s Factory Theatre on Wednesday.

The Los Angeles-based couple returned to Sydney for six months to film the second season of the “comfort food” series across the inner west.

Dyer and Brammall would walk their daughter Joni to daycare, pick up a coffee on the way home, retreat to their spare room and get to work. “It was actually one of the most beautiful times of my life,” Dyer said.

Creators, writers and stars Harriet Dyer and Patrick Brammall in Colin From Accounts season two. Photo: Joel Pratley/Binge.

Season two of the AACTA award-winning series picks up where we left off — with Ashley (Dyer) and Gordon (Bramall) trying to get their dog back.

The electric, fraught period of time between the end of a honeymoon phase and the beginnings of a new relationship is a universally felt experience.

“The start of relationships … there’s so much there,” Dyer said. “Both parties are always questioning if they’ve done the right thing. There’s no ring. No years spent together. No deep bonding, really. It’s the initial spark — and what happens next.”

Colin From Accounts stars and creators Patrick Brammall and Harriet Dyer. Photo: BINGE/ Scott Ehler.

Do Ashley and Gordon make sense without Colin?

“They’re having this ‘who are you really?’ moment,” Dyer said.

“They have an age gap. Different friends. They’re at different points in their lives,” Brammall added. “It’s fun opening up all that sort of stuff.”

In one pivotal scene, medical student Ashley asks her best friend Megan, “Do I want a boyfriend or do I just want a dog?”

Ashley (Harriet Dyer) and Gordon (Patrick Brammall) in Colin From Accounts season two, streaming on BINGE May 30. Photo: Lisa Tomasetti/Binge.

The husband and wife duo promised they hadn’t rehearsed their answers to The Daily Telegraph’s questions, although they speak so fluidly when interjecting on and finishing each other’s sentences that it’s almost as if they share a brain.

“We love the idea of random chance because that’s what the world is. Random chaos,” Bramall said. “If that one thing hadn’t of happened, if that postman had closed the gate properly, if Ashley hadn’t had that tequila, none of this would’ve happened,” Dyer said.

“But when you commit to seeing where something goes—” Brammall starts.

Dyer: “ — A story unfolds.”

Cast members Dyer, Brammall, Tai Hara, Helen Thomson, Emma Harvie, and “B-side Colin” attended the red carpet premiere. Two dog actors were used throughout filming.

“It’s possible he won’t even go up to us,” Dyer said. “That it could possibly even be awkward. The usual Colin barely even does that.”

Their own dog is an “anxious” Chihuahua mix who “just would not have coped” with starring on the small screen, they said.

Lead actors Harriet Dyer, Colin the dog and Patrick Brammall. Picture: Justin Lloyd

Annie Maynard. Picture: Justin Lloyd

Lana Greenhalgh. Picture: Justin Lloyd.

Michael Logo. Picture: Justin Lloyd.

“It would’ve been funny for half a day to employ him then we probably would’ve been embarrassed and upset,” Brammall said.

They briefly toyed with the idea of putting their toddler in season two, but when a typical Sydney downpour happened on-set, Dyer said she was grateful they’d hired a professional child actor. Although Dyer is from Townsville, and Brammall from Canberra, both stars have spent many years living in Sydney and are grateful to be back.

And as for a season three?

“I think people would be mad if we didn’t resolve where season two ends,” Dyer teased. “It’s not a neat ending.”

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