The BEST episodes of Breeders
Every episode of Breeders ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Breeders!
Paul and Ally juggle full-time careers, aging parents, a mortgage, upheavals in their relationship and the unenviable curveballs of parenting their young children, Luke and Ava — exploring 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.
#1 - No More (2)
Season 3 - Episode 10 - Aired 7/11/2022
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 - is this it?
#2 - No Worries
Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired 5/9/2022
Ally fears she might lose her job and her mind, as the company collapses and her HRT meds become unavailable. Luke's panic attack ends Paul's leisurely life at Leah's, while an increasingly isolated Ava faces a huge change.
#3 - No Cure (2)
Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 4/27/2020
Luke’s condition worsens and he is admitted to a specialist pediatric unit. As Paul, Ally and their parents desperately wait for news, stress and fear cause cracks to form within the family.
#4 - No Body
Season 3 - Episode 4 - Aired 5/23/2022
Ally and Paul each learns 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.
#5 - No Show
Season 3 - Episode 6 - Aired 6/6/2022
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, just as Jackie realizes a terrible truth about a dying friend.
#6 - No Comfort
Season 3 - Episode 3 - Aired 5/16/2022
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.
#7 - No Surrender
Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 3/22/2021
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
#8 - No Dad
Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 3/23/2020
Paul and Ally are thrilled that Sprout the family gerbil has finally died, but explaining loss to Luke and Ava is more difficult than they thought as grief manifests itself in mysterious ways and throws the family off course.
#9 - No Baby
Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 4/12/2021
As Ally contemplates her pregnancy, a new piece of information blows her world apart. A worried Ava tries to help her mom while Luke regrets lying about his anxiety.
#10 - No Way Back
Season 3 - Episode 8 - Aired 6/20/2022
Paul takes his parents on a day-trip to the countryside, to recreate a cherished memory. But the revelation of a number of secrets leaves all three of them reeling.
#11 - No Connection
Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 3/29/2021
Paul fears his culturally fragmented family have lost a vital connection. Gentrification impacts Jim and Jackie as the last of their old neighbours move out and more young professionals move in.
#12 - No Cure (1)
Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 4/20/2020
Family life is thrown off kilter as Ally spends her weekdays in Berlin and weekends in London. Paul, Luke and Ava try to muddle through without her, but the children aren’t sleeping again and it takes its toll on Paul.
#13 - No Fear
Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 3/22/2021
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.
#14 - No Direction Home
Season 3 - Episode 1 - Aired 5/9/2022
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.
#15 - No Power (1)
Season 2 - Episode 9 - Aired 5/10/2021
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.
#16 - No Friends
Season 2 - Episode 8 - Aired 5/3/2021
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.
#17 - No Sleep
Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 3/2/2020
The children won’t sleep – Paul and Ally thought these nights were over. Paul spends the night fighting his own anger and his children’s inability to go the f**k to sleep.
#18 - No Excuses
Season 2 - Episode 7 - Aired 4/26/2021
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.
#19 - No Power (2)
Season 2 - Episode 10 - Aired 5/17/2021
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.
#20 - No Exit
Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 4/6/2020
It’s half term and Luke is responsible for taking Lenny the class bear on an adventure. Lenny has been to Italy, Peru and beyond, but Paul can’t even manage to get the family and the godforsaken bear out of the house to the local park.
#21 - No Faith
Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 4/5/2021
As a sudden death impacts the older generation of the Worsley family, Ava struggles to keep a profound secret from Paul, and Ally finds it equally difficult to hide her true feelings from Luke.
#22 - No Honeymoon
Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 4/13/2020
Paul attempts to focus on his upcoming wedding but is constantly thwarted by his family; Ally is distracted by work, Luke is misbehaving at school and Leah doesn’t understand why they are even bothering to get married.
#23 - No Pressure
Season 3 - Episode 7 - Aired 6/13/2022
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.
#24 - No Accident
Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 3/9/2020
Ally attempts to acclimatise to Michael's continued presence while Paul, suspected of intentionally hurting his mum, begins to question if his accident-prone son's frequent injuries might actually be his fault.
#25 - No Talking
Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 3/30/2020
In the wake of Michael’s death, the family stay with Darren at his country house, but Paul’s attempt to give Ally space by taking on kid duties and Darren’s fixation on work doesn’t help Ally find a chance to say goodbye.
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