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Season 3 – Breeders

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Season 3 – Breeders

2022

Comedy

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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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Debi Enker

Sydney Morning Herald

Breeders is a distinguished member of a cohort of contemporary comedies (Please Like Me, Love & Anarchy, Hacks) that are honest, often uncomfortable and not necessarily laugh-out-loud funny.

Aug 25, 2022

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Joe Clay

Times (UK)

The message is about the sacrifices we make for our children.

Jul 13, 2022

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Saloni Gajjar

AV Club

Over two seasons, FX’s dark comedy Breeders has excelled at portraying the tough realities of parenthood. Its third, thankfully, is no different.

Rated: B+

May 6, 2022

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Alison Rowat

The Herald (Scotland)

This tale of modern parenting has to be one of the bleakest comedies on television. Its saving grace is that it is also one of the best.

Jul 22, 2022

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James Walton

The Spectator

On the whole the show now achieves a winning balance between poignancy and laughs. It also helps that the scripts are so reliably witty, and that Freeman and Daisy Haggard are both terrific as the beleaguered parents.

Jul 14, 2022

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Andrei D

Starting to lose steam

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

10/27/23

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Audience Member

It's not often that a "comedy" makes you laugh, then cry.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

01/09/23

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This season may be its best. It's so brutally honest in its depiction of a family struggling with real world problems. It's not afraid to make the characters unlikable and messy. Daisy Haggard and Martin Freeman have the best chemistry of any couple on a TV show. It helps that they're top notch actors. And the focus on the kids and the parents this season only makes the show feel more like life. It's a must see that probably many don't.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

01/09/23

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Ages 17 and older, LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Funny and romantic!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

01/09/23

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Luke is a prick. He's behaving like a child which he is and his father is tolerating his bullshit should of put luke in a mental institution where a therapist can help him soft out his mental disfunctions. Children always forget the good things when one bad thing happens on that day. As a father i would of blown up too then hugged her so that she remembers that feeling next time she wants to leave her mothers side to roam around.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

01/09/23

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Martin Freeman

Paul

Daisy Haggard

Ally

Alex Eastwood

Luke

Eve Prenelle

Ava

Joanna Bacon

Jackie

Alun Armstrong

Jim

Episode 1

Aired May 9, 2022

No Direction Home

With Luke refusing to live with his dad, Paul is staying at honeymooning Leah's house; single-parent Ally begins to feel the strain, while a distressing event from the family's past has a surprising present-day echo.

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Episode 2

Aired May 9, 2022

No Worries

Ally fears she might lose her job and her mind as the company collapses and her HRT medications become unavailable; Luke's panic attack ends Paul's leisurely life at Leah's; an increasingly isolated Ava faces a huge change.

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Episode 3

Aired May 16, 2022

No Comfort

A back injury leaves Paul high on Leah's supply, as he raids her collection of heavy-duty painkillers; as Luke and his dad get closer, Ally and Ava drift further apart, and Ally looks for someone to blame.

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Episode 4

Aired May 23, 2022

No Body

Ally and Paul learn the truth about a thing that has been terrifying them; for Ally, her job and for Paul, his MRI result; Ava and Luke both feel frozen out by the people they care most about.

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Episode 5

Aired May 30, 2022

No Can Do

An ambitious Ally sets out to save the company and throw a memorable birthday party for Ava, just as Paul, passed over for promotion yet again, wonders if he ever had any ambition to start with.

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Episode 6

Aired Jun 6, 2022

No Show

A devastated Paul is forced by his new boss to make funding cuts; after Ally's attempt to impress Ava ends in humiliation, she tells Paul some home truths; Jackie realizes a terrible truth about a dying friend.

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Episode 7

Aired Jun 13, 2022

No Pressure

After an apparent reconciliation with Ally, Paul's rage returns with a vengeance when he realizes that Ava has done something that could ruin her life; Luke and Jacob reunite, but things are becoming more complicated.

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Episode 8

Aired Jun 20, 2022

No Way Back

Paul takes his parents on a day-trip to the countryside to re-create a cherished memory; the revelation of a number of secrets leaves all three of them reeling.

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Episode 9

Aired Jun 27, 2022

No More: Part One

Jim and Jackie are both struggling under their new circumstances; Luke has to choose between Jacob and Ruby; at Alex's 65th birthday party, Ally meets someone who makes her see Paul in a new light.

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Episode 10

Aired Jul 11, 2022

No More: Part Two

A furious argument between Paul and Ally is interrupted by Ava's news about Jim; Luke is happier than ever; a newly confident Ava stands up to her dad, but Paul and Ally need to decide if this is it.

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