More of a Sci-Fi thriller than a humor show, Rick & Morty’s season 5 finale blew up my mind

And how a simple quest for revenge developed into an adult cartoon with a dark background of cosmological nihilism.

A sad Rick Sanchez as imagined by Dall-E-2. This picture is a Dall-E-2 generation, usable for all legal purposes including commercial use as detailed at https://labs.openai.com/policies/terms as of August 19th 2022.

Rick and Morty follows the “adventures” of Rick Sanchez, presumably (but we’ll discuss this here!) just a crazy drunk old scientist as presented early on in the show, and his grandson Morty, portrayed as a rather dumb teenager. Among several pieces of crazy tech that he invents, Rick has a portal gun that allows him to teleport to any point in space inside any universe of a multiverse where all possible combinations of Ricks, Mortys and other characters and things exist.

During the show we follow Rick, presumably from universe C-137, and “his” Morty, sometimes with other members of Rick’s daughter Beth’s family, as they live hilarious, crazy stories, often close to death or even involving their own deaths that are always somehow resolved with some fun and crazy science fiction -just one example is when they kill themselves multiple times inside a park whose main point is to have an immortality field that automatically brings you back to life every time you die.

Through his gadgets, labs, and the creations he and others have developed throughout the…