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- 2018
- TV-MA
- SHOWTIME
- 2018
- TV-MA
- SHOWTIME
Summary Jeff (Jim Carrey) plays Mr. Pickles, a children's television personality, who slowly begins to unravel as he tries to cope with family difficulties.
Created By: Dave Holstein
- 2018
- TV-MA
- SHOWTIME
- 2018
- TV-MA
- SHOWTIME
Kidding
Season 1 Premiere: Aug 31, 2018
68
8.0
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Summary Jeff (Jim Carrey) plays Mr. Pickles, a children's television personality, who slowly begins to unravel as he tries to cope with family difficulties.
Created By: Dave Holstein
Where to Watch
Top Cast
Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 35 Critic Reviews
68
66% Positive
23 Reviews
23 Reviews
31% Mixed
11 Reviews
11 Reviews
3% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 35 Critic Reviews
68
66% Positive
23 Reviews
23 Reviews
31% Mixed
11 Reviews
11 Reviews
3% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
If Season 1 was a pressure cooker, Season 2 is more of a spiral. Everyone in Jeff's immediate circle has to face up to their sins, and even if some fare better than others, the collective reckoning makes a hell of a mess to clean up.
Showtime's best and most binge-worthy series in a long time. ... The result is funny, wildly inventive and utterly sad. To pull off what is conceptually the implosion of Mister Rogers is a real triumph.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 154 User Ratings
8.0
82% Positive
126 Ratings
126 Ratings
10% Mixed
16 Ratings
16 Ratings
8% Negative
12 Ratings
12 Ratings
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 154 User Ratings
8.0
82% Positive
126 Ratings
126 Ratings
10% Mixed
16 Ratings
16 Ratings
8% Negative
12 Ratings
12 Ratings
Wow! We love this show at our house. It's such a caring show in its own quirky way. The episodes are short, so I am recommending binging a few at a time. JC is at his best here.
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Kiddings quality is second to none, every episode is nearly perfect in both writing and actinh. What I love the most is the shows pacing, episodes are short and the story never wanders off the rails. After 2 seasons I am still finding every episode to be interesting and engaging.
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The personal toll the demand of celebrity takes on someone desperate for real connection. An audience’s insistence that the connection they have to someone on TV is real, and can’t be shattered. They are provocative, meta conversations raised especially by having Carrey in this role, and they elevate the show even as its quirkier dramedy subthreads begin to run amok.
Kidding is melancholy more often than laugh-out-loud funny, and well-acted even if some of its character development is lacking. More than anything else, it’s a showcase for Carrey.
Directed by Michel Gondry, Kidding occasionally shows sparks of the magic he brought to his previous collaboration with Mr. Carrey, “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind,” but there’s not enough of the show-within-a-show for Mr. Gondry’s wonderfully wacko visual style to get much play.
Through the first two episodes, Kidding has the slightly whimsical but basically naturalistic vibe of an indie family drama. ... When the series turns to Sebastian, a cold and implausible father, and his plotting, it feels as though Kidding is not quite confident that its two elegiac central questions--how to be sad and how to be good--are interesting enough. If the show could make itself comfortable with Mr. Pickles’ gloom, they could be.
None of this plays as interesting or funny as it sounds on the printed page. Carrey's Mr. Pickles is tortuously unappealing, a smiley-faced drip in need of a hard slapping. And Mr. Pickles' Puppet Time itself is on the screen, it's light years past unbearable.
Jim Carrey and Michel Gondry really delivered on this one. If you loved Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind 20 years ago, this is the team that made it. Kidding is in my top 5 shows for 2019, one of the best years of tv shows ever. Btw, my #1 show this year is The Boys
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Jim Carrey is the main reason that makes this show a real good entertainment.
In my view, this was the best comedy TV show of 2018.
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Production Company:
- Aggregate Films
Initial Release Date: Aug 31, 2018
Number of seasons: 2 Seasons
Rating: TV-MA
Awards
Golden Globes, USA
• 2 Nominations
Young Artist Awards
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
Young Entertainer Awards
• 2 Nominations
