Kidding

This series is great! It practically brought Jim Carrey back from the dead and you get to see it happen throughout the 2 seasons it lived for. (I'm sure his experience doing Sonic as Robotnik helped as well. They really treated him well during that production, which happened between seasons 1 and 2 of Kidding.) The camera work is clever and pristine, the writing is witty and grounding in its use of irony punctuating the end of each scene, the puppets and songs are cute, the themes explored are important to our current human experience (where so many are creating these marketable images of themselves to monetize and then they're stuck like that, as well as complicated family relationships caused by living and working together--*cough*CoviD*cough*), and the acting is... it's ok. There's a lot of Boomers yelling at each other, like this is the only place they can yell at anyone. It seems like an awfully expensive form of therapy for the actors at times more than entertainment for the viewer's pleasure. Jim Carrey is sorta... fake acting? While Jim Carrey is best playing Jim Carrey, he CAN act, but he started doing this thing where it's obvious he's "pretending" somewhere in the mid-late 2000s. You really see it here as he tries to play this "nice guy dealing with a mean world." He's not a "nice guy." Have you seen his Trump doodles? They're so terrible. And he's got all these minions in his feed rooting him on. Honestly the main reason I'm glad Trump is heading out of office is so Jim Carrey stops drawing the ugly man. You can only spend so much time drawing ugly before you become ugly, which is Jim's face in most of season 1. Throughout season 2 it gets much better as Mr. Pickles's attempts to be nice backfire and you, as the viewer, enjoy watching him LOSE IT--as Jim Carrey's characters do by trademark throughout his work. What's different in Kidding though is that when he loses it, it's kinda nasty. I don't wanna spoil it, but usually you laugh when he loses it because you wanna lose it like that too and just tell people what you really think and dance around, physically harmlessly, but spiritually woke. However, in this series, he becomes kinda scary when he loses it. He'd be less scary losing it if he were the show's villain, but he's supposed to be a good guy. Nevertheless. This is a quality piece of work. I am glad that it's cancelled though so Jim can branch out to something new again before he dies. I was kinda worried he'd be stuck in this for 9 seasons and that'd be the last we get out of him. He really needs to lay off the grilled cheese sandwiches. *pokes his tummy*

So many talented actors who give such marvelous performances, but Jim Carrey is beyond amazing. Funny, quirky and heartbreaking at once. Really showcases his superb range as an actor. I wish they had done many seasons of this...I want more.

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