7/10/2023 0 Comments New rick and morty![]() ![]() As each half-hour swings the Jerry pendulum between being being the family doormat and finding some odd newfound confidence, Chris Parnell continues to pull off both with ease. Sarah Chalke has really embraced her own dual roles when called upon, really anchoring that episode centered around the two Beths. That leaves the show’s main cast to show off the kind of range that Justin Roiland’s had the chance to show off since the show started. Ever since the point of no return of getting a “Game of Thrones” actor to voice a dragon in a high fantasy parody episode, these guest cast members have stayed away from being too on the nose, either. There’s still room for a “Peter Dinklage as a Hans Gruber type” here, a “Lisa Kudrow as alien dinosaur envoy” there, but there’s less of a need to clear out the way for a high-profile voice to cut through the family dynamic. Part of being more self-contained has meant relying less on guest stars this season, too. The “Die Hard” riffs in “Rick: A Mort Well Lived” were more a complement to the existential crises happening elsewhere than the main attraction. What Season 6 has largely stayed away from is the kind of “what if but ‘Rick & Morty’” setups that have led to some of the more treading water episodes in recent years. The giant conspiracy that spins out from a single fortune cookie in “Final DeSmithation” is right in line with what the show has done with turkeys and squirrels and brined veggies in the past. When the family got caught in a consciousness tug-of-war with their sleeping selves, Summer got a chance to take the lead as the head of the “Night Family.”Įscalation is still one of the biggest tricks this show can conjure up. Beth and her clone (neither of them still 100% sure which is which) went on an episode-length exploration of what made them each happy. A callback to one of the show’s best self-contained gags once again brought the two title characters face-to-face with mortality. Without those other worlds to escape to and distract, the next few Season 6 episodes forced Rick and the Smith family to work on themselves even more than the show usually makes them. Not all of the Season 6 episodes have been confined to Earth, but “Rick and Morty” is showing a willingness to let the universe come to it rather than the other way around. Rather than write outward in the way the show often does, by stacking galaxies upon galaxies until there’s an entire planet populated by multiverse versions of two characters, finding portal gun-free adventures led the show back to its neighborhood family hijinks roots. The portal gun that lets Rick and Morty (and Summer and Beth and Jerry) hop between dimensions got sidelined in the Season 6 premiere. Step 1 was taking a big piece of the show’s iconography off the board. Felony Domestic Violence Charges Against ‘Rick and Morty’ Creator Justin Roiland Dropped ![]()
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