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Crap Happens(2026)

Also known as Kacken-sur-la-Havel

Archived · Netflix

149 eps
S01
Comedy
ON AIR: FEB 26Season 1Archived listing

What to Expect

PremiereLens read

Crap Happens is a situational comedy that keeps its laughs grounded in genuine overwhelm: a rapper returning home for his mother's funeral who discovers, mid-grief, that he is also a father to a teenager he did not know existed. The comedy grows from that collision rather than from absurdist detours, and the emotional weight underneath the jokes stays present without being tidied away.

Toni's relationship with his teenage son is awkward in the specific, unglamorous way that two strangers forced into family tend to be. Neither of them asked for this, and the negotiation between them, clumsy and halting, gives the show much of its friction and its warmth. His music ambitions do not disappear just because life has complicated itself, which keeps the pressure on and the situations honest.

Best for

grief-to-laughs comedy, unexpected fatherhood and Comedy

Story lane

Comedy

Commitment

Season 1 · 9 episodes

Where

Netflix

Official Premise

Rapper Toni comes home for his mom's funeral and must balance his music ambitions with unexpectedly becoming father to a teenage son.

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