Breeders Season 4 is the series’ final season; it does a brief time jump, and we continue to explore Paul and Ally’s relationship. They’ve been through a lot: Intimacy issues, mortgage problems, falling out with their kids, and emotional baggage trauma, but somehow, they managed to set things aside and move on together as the years pass by, and the audience carefully watches what’s next.
And this season has had a few things: not only are we seeing Luke become a father while he’s in high school, we’re seeing Ava explore her sexuality, and all the while, Paul and Ally are, after all, realizing what made them be together in the first place.
Breeders Season 4 Episode 5 Recap
This episode shows us, like most of the season so far, why Paul and Ally are together and what drives them forward. For both characters, each with their own perfectly scripted personality flaw, the prospect of failure in life is unacceptable.
Paul and Ally accept that Luke is on the fast track to being a father, teenage pregnancy is complex, and the prospect of abortion is a looming figure here, but the fact Luke and her girlfriend have decided to keep the child and raise it tells us something valuable about life, which is the ethos of this show.
Meanwhile, Ava is finding out about her sexuality, which, like Luke, is another thing that this show that centers around life and aging is about: It turns out that Ava will invite the girl she’s dating to the Worsley home for dinner, coming out of the closet to a couple like Paul and Ally, who have a lot on their plate but, through the thick and thin, rear their children.
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Ava’s Gay Panic
Ava’s character is divided between the dogmas of faith that Bible studies teach her and her inclinations towards a same-sex partner. Still, the episode explores how each character is dealing with their own set of crises in a complex yet well-written character story development arc.
For Paul and Ally, the fact that they’re supporting Ava in her coming out of the closet, that she’s not supposed to feel shame for expressing who she thinks she is, is something that brings them together after all the bad weather that their relationship has experienced.
For Luke, his feelings and growing up, dealing with those bad moments with his dad, and now facing fatherhood add a complex layer to a character that, as we see in the dialogues he has throughout this episode and the previous ones,
is building him up on either a fast track to being a responsible father or facing a catastrophe of the emotional kind if the circle of mixed emotions on the negative side takes the best out of him.
Breeders Season 4 Episode 5 Trailer
Breeders Season 4 Episode 5 Review
Breeders are the kind of show that evolves with time, puts the human relationships aspect to the test, and does so with the twist of comedy; sometimes the show goes into too much drama, sometimes it goes into too much comedy, and there’s no sort of in-between here.
All in all, as the season moves on, we can see that despite their problems, Paul and Ally fell in love for a reason: They find in each other a trait that complements them.
Can’t blame Breeders’s scriptwriting team for giving us this rollercoaster ride of storytelling. This episode explored Paul and Ally, welcoming the fact that Luke is having a baby while he’s in high school.
Now, things get even more complex for the two because Ava is exploring her sexuality with another girl, adding even another layer of complexity to a final season that will surely give us a tear-jerker as well as a laugh with flashback scenes and intricate, deep, powerful dialogues that keep building up to the series finale.
I keep wondering what are the knots in this dramedy going to be as they build up to the series finale. Is it going to be a happy ending, or are we going to see a problem, a fallout that causes a major emotional tragedy among Paul and Ally?
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