Kidding
Hi. Cruel world.
Created by Dave Holstein
On Showtime
A darkly comic character study of a children's television icon whose carefully constructed world collapses into psychological crisis, blending whimsy with genuine despair.
Jeff, aka Mr. Pickles, is an icon of children's TV. But when his family begins to implode, Jeff finds no fairy tale or fable or puppet will guide him through this crisis, which advances faster than his means to cope. The result: a kind man in a cruel world faces a slow leak of sanity as hilarious as it is heartbreaking.
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Same territory, far fewer people have seen it.
