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Critic Reviews
Sep 6, 2018
Season 1 Review:
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.
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Sep 6, 2018
Season 1 Review:
Those tuning in for one of Carrey’s trademark manic performances will be disappointed. This is a much more mannered, subtle performance, and while you can admire the commitment to the role, you can find yourself perplexed by the execution. In the supporting cast, Langella is stand-out, a maestro at delivering deadpan snark.
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Sep 6, 2018
Season 1 Review:
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.
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Sep 5, 2018
Season 1 Review:
There’s something curious and affecting about a family that communicates its emotions mainly through fabric and googly eyes. Which is why it’s disappointing to see Kidding eventually turn into a more-familiar kind of pay-cable adult dark comedy. ... Its best moments come when it’s willing, like Uku-Larry, to own its feelings. The show, unfortunately, seems a little afraid of them.
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Sep 5, 2018
Season 1 Review:
Through the four episodes (of the season’s ten) screened by this critic, Kidding has yet to manifest a coherent tone. The frank jocularity of the wisecracks bumps up against rogue jolts of cutesiness and a slightly dirty realism, familiar from Sundance dramedies. ... One also wants to attribute the slow-boil mood and occasional low-key tone of Carrey’s strong performance to Gondry.
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Sep 5, 2018
Season 1 Review:
Dondry works in an abstract style with a minimum of narrative momentum, but sometimes the characters seem stranded from one another. That we’re all disconnected may be his message, but Kidding is going to have to give us more than Carrey’s sad-sack face to stick with the show--though it’s got some promise.
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