Episodes
Breeders: No Excuses (S2EP7 FX Mon 26 Apr 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.
Written by Rebecca Callard; directed by Ollie Parsons.
Airdate: Mon 26 Apr 2021 at 22:00 on FX
Season 2 Episode 7
Breeders explores the paradox that every parent knows but never admits: you would willingly die for your children, but quite often you also want to kill them.
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 — 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…