alternation

The alternation between analytic calm and hysteria can be exhausting.

The variety of locations, the alternation of tone and predicaments as the series skips between threads, keeps it from becoming too emotionally, too existentially wearing.

Also, recordings of a kind of electrical dialog between fish featured highly-precise turn-taking in which the fish emitted their electrical discharges in strict alternation.

"They have two legs, so they can have regular trousers, but their hip is very wide so you have to take that to the alternations shop too."

That alternation between the serious and the absurd was the series’ stock in trade.