Netflix fans have been given a strict deadline to watch a Martin Freeman dark comedy series with a 92 per cent score on Rotten Tomatoes.
Subscribers of the platform have been given gift after gift in recent months, with several great films and shows added to the platform.
Whether it be the brand-new gripping documentaries about Amy Bradley or American reality show The Biggest Loser, or soon-to-be cult classics like The Iron Claw, Netflix subscribers have been given tons of things to choose from.
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With this bounty of new shows and films, however, it is natural that Netflix must make space for these by letting other TV and film go.
One of these coming off Netflix is a comedy TV series called Breeders.
Starring Martin Freeman and Daisy Haggard, fans of the series or people who’ve been putting off watching it must move fast if they want to get one last watch in.
The show’s concept is very simple; it follows Paul and Ally Worsley, a pair of parents trying to juggle their careers with their home lives.
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Although this may seem too simple to be great, reviews of the show dispel this notion due to its dark comedy tone.
With a score of 92 per cent on Rotten Tomatoes and a 7.6 on IMDb, it is a hit with both fans and critics alike.
This includes two different seasons with a perfect 100 per cent score, in which every review on the platform was positive.
Allison Shoemaker, who penned a largely positive review of the show for RogerEbert.com, said: “When writers Addison and Blackwell let Breeders wander away from its thesis, and especially when they allow Freeman and Haggard to play messy and complicated, it shows tremendous promise.”
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Meanwhile, Scott Bryan of the BBC was full of praise for the show, but did add one caveat to his recommendation to watch it.
He said: “I found the references funny, as I have a niece and two nephews, and it’s a lot of the anecdotes that I hear from my sisters about helping them grow up and all the stuff they get into.
"It’s one of those sitcoms that the more you watch it, the more your brain goes 'oh, that’s happened' and then the more you laugh.
"For me if you hold it as a general comedy and you don’t know anyone with kids I don’t think it would be that funny. It really is dependent on how connected you are to the issue at hand."
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If that sounds like the show for you, though, move fast, as it is being taken off Netflix on 4 September, giving fans just a couple of weeks to binge the series.
Breeders season 1-3 is available to watch on Netflix.
Topics: TV and Film, TV, Martin Freeman, Netflix
Michael Slavin