Many are called, few are chosen. In recent years we have seen a good handful of series and films aspiring to occupy the throne of the romantic comedy that Nora Ephron left vacant with her involuntary departure from life, in 2012. Who, in the genre, was not going to wonder, Billy Wilder’s way with Lubitsch: How would Nora do it?
The last applicant to reach our TVs is Colin of accounts, an Australian production from 2022, whose first two chapters can already be seen on Movistar+. A comedy created by screenwriters and actors Patrick Brammall and Harriet Dryer, an off-screen couple, and protagonists of this fiction, which starts from a crazy trigger. Yes in Catastrophe its protagonists were united by an unforeseen pregnancy, in Colin of accounts glue is an adorable dog – how much dogs have done for audiovisual couples since The dinner of the accused–. A dog that he runs over after being distracted from her because she spontaneously decides to show him a nipple—a variant of The slit in your skirta, from Estopa, made a narrative premise—. References to Ephron are even explicit in this series. He quotes When Harry Met Sally and she thinks he’s talking about two friends of hers.
Colin of accounts She’s gross, funny, and tries to sound like Nora Ephron. But she’s not Nora Ephron. This is what good references have: they function as a horizon, but, as such, one never reaches them, and it is better not to live on them alone.
We see more and more series written by romantic couples. In the Dryer and Brammall club there are also the Sherman Palladinos, the Kings or the Javis, to name other examples, a situation that he portrayed with grace Episodes. I, like so many others, would have liked to see it told by Nora Ephron.
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