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Breeders

  • TV-MA
  • 2020–2023
  • 4 seasons
  • Comedy
  • 6.8

The Instagram parents are lying.

Exposing the parental-paradox that it is possible, in the very same moment, to love your child to the horizon of the universe, while being apoplectically angry enough to want to send them there.

Episodes

Time has moved on in Season 2. Luke is now 13 years old and Ava is 10, serving up brand new parenting challenges for Paul and Ally. Luke’s increasing anxiety and Ava’s growing independence add some new and uncharted complications into the existing chaotic mix of stretched resources, lack of time and the fine art of winging it while looking like you know what you’re doing.

10 episodes
  1. 1No Surrender

    24 minMar 22, 2021

    The kids are growing up fast – Ava is now 10 and Luke is about to turn 13. With their burgeoning independence comes the question of whether Paul and Ally’s parenting style still works. Clue: no.

  2. 2No Fear

    21 minMar 22, 2021

    Luke’s anxiety is becoming a problem at home and school. Would a medical diagnosis make his life easier or harder? Ally faces further tension after her mother Leah is robbed.

  3. 3No Connection

    22 minMar 29, 2021

    Paul fears his culturally fragmented family has lost a vital connection. Gentrification impacts Jim and Jackie as the last of their old neighbours move out and more young professionals move in.

  4. 4No Faith

    23 minApr 5, 2021

    A sudden death impacts the older generation of the Worsley family. Ava struggles to keep a profound secret from Paul. Ally finds it difficult to hide her true feelings from Luke.

  5. 5No Baby

    21 minApr 12, 2021

    As Ally contemplates her pregnancy, a new piece of information blows her world apart. A worried Ava tries to help her mum while Luke regrets lying.

  6. 6No Choice

    24 minApr 19, 2021

    Ally is under huge pressure, but no one seems to want to listen to her; Jim and Jackie are excited about a possible move to the coast and, much to Paul's surprise, so is he.

  7. 7No Excuses

    23 minApr 26, 2021

    Ally and Paul's marriage is in crisis. Paul's obsessed by what happened but won't discuss it. An increasingly troubled Luke refuses to go to school and Leah and Alex make an announcement.

  8. 8No Friends

    27 minMay 3, 2021

    As he and Ally continue to feel distant, Paul rekindles an old friendship, but at a cost to Ava. Luke surprises everyone by getting a best friend. Jim and Jackie are forced to move.

  9. 9No Power (1)

    24 minMay 10, 2021

    As Jim and Jackie's golden wedding anniversary party is plunged into darkness by a power outage, the growing tensions between Paul and Luke reach an explosive and terrifying climax.

  10. 10No Power (2)

    24 minMay 17, 2021

    On the day of Leah and Alex's wedding, Paul and Ally find they have only a few hours to deal with a family crisis, leading Paul to make the hardest decision of his life.

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Series cast

Martin FreemanPaul Worsley40 episodes
Daisy HaggardAlly Grant40 episodes
Alun ArmstrongJim27 episodes
Joanna BaconJackie25 episodes
Eve PrenelleAva Worsley20 episodes
Alex EastwoodLuke Worsley20 episodes
Patrick BaladiDarren18 episodes
Stella GonetLeah15 episodes
George WakemanYoung Luke14 episodes
Jayda EylesYoung Ava14 episodes
Oscar KennedyLuke Worsley10 episodes
Zoë AthenaAva Worsley10 episodes
Tim SteedCarl9 episodes
Aliyah SesayGrace9 episodes
Hugh QuarshieAlex8 episodes
Michael McKeanMichael5 episodes
Jordan A. NashJacob5 episodes
Andi OshoSusie5 episodes

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