[Editor’s Note: The following review contains spoilers for “Breeders” Season 4, Episode 10, “No Matter What: Part Two,” the series finale.]Typically, when a parent is caught screaming at their child, it’s not the errant adult who needs comforting.
But “Breeders” — the FX series about childcare’s unexpected, even unbearable burdens — knows that good moms and dads can have bad moments.
Martin Freeman, Chris Addison, and Simon Blackwell’s dark comedy offers itself, time and again, as a shoulder to cry on for caregivers who’ve given so much, they’re no longer themselves.
It does so again during Episode 10, “No Matter What,” wrapping its figurative arms around the infuriated father.
Well, fathers.In the series finale, Luke (Oscar Kennedy) is at his wit’s end.
He’s been traveling back and forth between Manchester and London, the former for a coveted music production course at the Manchester Institute and the latter to see his girlfriend, Maya (Deepica Stephen), and their newborn son,…
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