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Haggard and Freeman’s lightning-strike chemistry fuels their supersonic banter and warm, softer exchanges.
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It was terrific: dark, fresh, brutal, funny, a little twisted (always a good thing) and very sweary.
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They deal with predictable domestic disasters, some of them feebly constructed, but the British realism makes it all feel less sitcomy and manipulative than other shows of its ilk. One of the best treats is the relationship between Paul and Ally.
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Each episode feels like a slice of life, complete with laughs, tears, sarcasm, and life’s mundane chores and routines. In the hands of Freeman, Haggard, Blackwell and Addison, it makes for wry, amusing and relatable television.
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Breeders’ stark reality of what it’s like to parent young kids these days hits us right in our exhausted funny bones.
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The main issue is that so much of what the show presents of them are their surface-level emotions, not the characters themselves. By Episodes 4 and 5, the selectively hidden parts of not just Paul and Ally’s relationship but their past individual histories do float to the surface. The question is if audiences will stick around long enough for those breadcrumbs to guide their way out of the cold.
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While Freeman and Haggard give strong performances, the show often plays out like a comedian who has gone too far in trying to figure out what’s funny without seeing what actually works.
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The pilot episode of FX’s new dark comedy “Breeders” will be instantly relatable to anyone who’s ever parented young children. ... Subsequent episodes draw focus away from Paul and Allie and their children and expand to include more attention on Paul’s elderly parents and the addition of actor Michael McKean as Allie’s unambitious American father. None of this is bad per se, just not as funny as what’s established in the premiere.