How Kidding juggles its starkly different tones

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Jim Carrey's Showtime series features everything from crushing loss to unfiltered rage to magical realism and cathartic humor. "The whole show is a bit of a magic trick," says creator Dave Holstein. "It’s hard to pitch a magic trick." He adds: "We definitely aim for (each) episode to be a different color on the spectrum than the next episode. We’ll have a somber episode followed by a magical episode followed by a buddy comedy... Hopefully those 10 different notes play together and find some kind of chord."