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 Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Kidding is an American comedy-drama series which premiered on Showtime on September 9th, 2018 and ran two seasons, wrapping up in 2020.Created by Dave Holstein, the series stars Jim Carrey, Frank Langella, Judy Greer, Cole Allen, Juliet Morris, and Catherine Keener and marks the second collaboration between director and executive producer Michel Gondry and Carrey, who previously worked together on the film Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.The series follows one Jeff Piccirillo, who for 30+ years has been known to a loving public as "Mr. Pickles", the perpetually optimistic and gentle presenter of the public television children's show Mr. Pickles' Puppet Time. In reality he is as idealistic as his onscreen self — but one year prior to the start of the action, a freak accident claimed the life of one of his adolescent twin sons and led to the dissolution of his marriage. His resultant struggling with the grief of both bereavement and estrangement from his wife Jill and surviving son Will is starting to affect his work. His executive producer (and father) Seb is out to carefully conceal this from the public, much to the distress of Jeff's sister (and puppet maker) Deirdre, who is having her own problems with a troubled marriage and the effects it's having on her daughter. Can Jeff accept and cope with the heartaches of the real world while still being the All-Loving Hero he feels a responsibility to, and wants to, be?Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })Note that the character page includes unmarked spoilers.
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 Always Identical Twins: Will and Phil (played by the same actor); the resemblance between them figures into Will's character development as he struggles with survivor's guilt.
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 All-Loving Hero: Jeff is a deconstruction of the trope, as his desire to be loving to everyone — even those who hurt him — and responsibility to keeping up the image of "Mr. Pickles" in public start eating him alive over the course of Season One, as he struggles to express his anger, pain, and guilt in ways that won't hurt others. At the end of the season, he both gets his show cancelled with his heartbreaking speech at the tree lighting ceremony and hits Peter with his car on Christmas Eve, and thus Season Two is his Redemption Quest as he struggles to make amends and reconstruct this trope.
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