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Season 1 – Breeders

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Season 1 – Breeders

Mar 2020

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"Breeders" explores the paradox experienced by nearly all parents, the willingness to die for one's children coupled with the near-constant desire to kill them. Paul is a caring father who discovers he's not quite the man he thought he was. His partner, Ally, runs a recording studio, makes Paul laugh and has the ability to read a story to their children while she's technically asleep. In this honest and uncompromising comedy, Paul and Ally are juggling full-time careers, aging parents, a mortgage, upheavals in their relationship and the unenviable curveballs of parenting their young children, Luke and Ava. When Ally's estranged father Michael appears on their doorstep, the family essentially takes on a third child three quarters of the time, but this one comes with baggage and opinions. Paul's own parents, Jackie and Jim, are on hand to help out, but their generation does parenting a little differently.

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Critics Consensus

A provocative addition to the growing slate of shows about parents behaving badly, Breeders' take on the realities of child-rearing are as hilarious as they are cringe-inducing.

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Scott Bryan

BBC.com

07/15/2020

If you don't know anyone with kids I don't think it would be that funny. It really is dependent on how connected you are to the issue at hand.

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Hugo Rifkind

The Times (UK)

03/16/2020

[Martin] Freeman's meltdowns are brilliantly uncomfortable, but equally often they're even more uncomfortable than that and I'm not totally sure they're meant to be

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Deborah Ross

The Mail on Sunday (UK)

03/16/2020

3/5

This is well performed by Freeman, and also Daisy Haggard... But the anger directed at the children is hard to stomach and also you do think: you live in a fabulously stylish house. You have good jobs. It's you who needs to grow up. But it is brave,

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Akos Peterbencze

Vulnerable Man (Medium)

07/21/2023

Breeders is a raw and brutally honest series, which also applies to its sudden twists. The writers smartly create shocking and emotional turns in seconds, which they lay out through the ten episodes.

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Euan Ferguson

Observer (UK)

03/16/2020

It's a triumph; but it's not a cosy watch.

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Sara Wallis

Daily Mirror (UK)

03/16/2020

Parenting is not a novel source of comedy but this is a smart, warts-and-all sitcom that really hits home.

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Caitlin T

@xcaitlintracey 11/23/2023

I loved watching the first series of Breeders, I found it absolutely hilarious with having a toddler myself, I felt the highs and lows with Ally and Paul, I felt it was exactly the right portrayal of parenting and that parents aren't all perfect and we also sometimes have a little bit of Rage inside ready to come out, This series is perfect for parents to watch and have a laugh, very relatable:)

Andrei D

10/03/2023

Decent dar prea swingy

06/09/2021

An excellent cast, and a great mix of funny and sad, which won't be to everyone's taste, after the superb After Life, (and Episodes and man strokes woman, I now see Daisy Haggard's name on the cast list as a guarantee of excellence.

05/12/2021

Anyone who has ever had a child is crying and laughing along with the characters. We feel their highs and their lows. Their joy is so close to our hearts and their pain is felt on the deepest level of our gut. I hope any parent would watch this to feel understood and not judged, maybe for the first time in their life. The writing is absolutely brilliant. Every single actor is spot on, I wish they would all get Emmy awards!!

06/21/2020

Breeders is fantastic. Martin Freeman and Daisy Haggard were amazing to portray as parents and the episodes were so fascinating. UK premium network Sky and Disney's FX did an amazing and fascinating job for co-producing the series.

05/14/2020

I really enjoyed the heart this show had!

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Martin Freeman

Paul

Daisy Haggard

Ally

Michael McKean

Michael

George Wakeman

Luke

Jayda Eyles

Ava

Joanna Bacon

Jackie

Episode 1

Aired Mar 2, 2020

No Sleep

Paul and Ally thought these nights were over; Paul spends the night fighting his own anger and his children's inability to go to sleep.

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Episode 2

Aired Mar 2, 2020

No Places

Luke's parents and the surprising arrival of Ally's estranged father cause Paul and Ally to scrutinize their hopes and dreams for Luke and Ava and discover how far they will go for the sake of their kids.

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Episode 3

Aired Mar 9, 2020

No Accident

Ally attempts to acclimatize to Michael's continued presence while Paul begins to question if his accident-prone son's frequent injuries might actually be his fault.

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Episode 4

Aired Mar 16, 2020

No Lies

Michael thrives in his new role as dad and granddad, but Paul and Ally can't adapt to his presence as easily as the children can; Luke's hunt for proof that Santa doesn't exist puts Paul's claim that he never lies to the test.

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Episode 5

Aired Mar 23, 2020

No Dad

Paul and Ally are thrilled that Sprout, the family gerbil, has finally died but explaining loss to Luke and Ava is more difficult than they thought it would be, as grief manifests itself in mysterious ways and throws the family off course.

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Episode 6

Aired Mar 30, 2020

No Talking

In the wake of Michael's death, the family stay with Darren at his country house, but Paul's attempt to give Ally space by taking on kid duties and Darren's fixation on work doesn't help Ally find a chance to say goodbye.

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Episode 7

Aired Apr 6, 2020

No Exit

It's half term and Luke is responsible for taking Lenny the class bear on an adventure; Lenny has been to Italy, Peru and beyond, but Paul can't even manage to get the family and the godforsaken bear out of the house to the local park.

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Episode 8

Aired Apr 13, 2020

No Honeymoon

Paul attempts to focus on his upcoming wedding but is constantly thwarted by his family; Ally is distracted by work, Luke is misbehaving at school and Leah doesn't understand why they are even bothering to get married.

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Episode 9

Aired Apr 20, 2020

No Cure

Family life is thrown off kilter as Ally spends her weekdays in Berlin and weekends in London; Paul, Luke and Ava try to muddle through without her, but the children aren't sleeping again and it takes its toll on Paul.

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Episode 10

Aired Apr 27, 2020

No Cure

Luke's condition worsens and he is admitted to a specialist pediatric unit; as Paul, Ally and their parents desperately wait for news, stress and fear cause cracks to form within the family.

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