![]() ![]() Regardless, unfortunately, valiantly though it tried, “Rickternal Friendshine of the Spotless Mort” has failed to shut an asshole like me right up. ![]() Rick and Morty: A Guide to Every Voice Actor By Alec Bojalad In fact, something I really liked in this episode is that Rick specifically addresses how he could just hop into a different reality and grab a Bird Person that isn’t in a coma and “suits him best,” but evidently not fighting to save this Bird Person is, in his view, insufficient. It’s therefore potentially really interesting to explore what makes him continue to risk his life for sci-fi adventures and to put up with this particular iteration of his family when infinite other permutations exist and nothing matters. ![]() Unlike the rest of the family, the guy hasn’t changed all that much from the cynical God-like prick he was at the beginning. It smartly recognizes that one of the richest character veins left to tap for sweet, sweet pathos is Rick himself. “Rickternal Friendshine of the Spotless Mort,” which is concerned exclusively with Rick and Bird Person’s friendship to the point that the rest of the Smith family is removed from the episode less than 30 seconds in, feels designed to shut assholes like me right up. Whatever it is, it appears that simply packing an episode to the gills with gags and violence does not comedy make. Perhaps it’s an extension of the absence of characterization, which gave us reason enough to care about these characters to enjoy laughing at or with them. Unfortunately, season five has also been not very funny at all. This is accompanied by what feels like almost wall-to-wall dialogue, most of it jokes, ostensibly. This season, the Smith family exist to be bitterly snarky toward one another as they hack down multitudes of clones and mutant turkeys and sperms with no pause to breathe.Įpisodes this season feel packed with stuff: crazy plot escalations, violence, and visual insanity thrown at you almost constantly. The problem of how next to evolve this multiverse and these characters has been present since at least season four, if not earlier, but it’s become a lot more noticeable in season five, which focuses so much on spectacle (and a hefty helping of brazen stupidity) that it’s not just character development that’s being forgotten, but character in general. Therefore, in lieu of meaningful character stuff, the series has increasingly focused on sci-fi spectacle. After putting Morty and Summer through the multidimensional wringer and Jerry and Beth through a divorce and back again (and there was also that cloning business for Beth), all the characters seem to have reached peak cynicism, so it’s been understandably difficult to develop them much. One of my major complaints about newer episodes of Rick and Mortyis the lack of focus on characterization. This RICK AND MORTY review contains spoilers. ![]()
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