Go Watch Rick and Morty please
Much has been said about the subversive brilliance of Adult Swim, or to be more specific, the studio Williams street. Being the secret cultural backbone of alternative comedy, most of their work has some specific baggage attributed to it. Whether it be a non sequitur pace or bizarre artistic choices, Adult Swim offerings require the audience to on some level be effectually “on-board” with the dealings, a facet which has made Adult Swim on a superficial level to be perceived and stoner shlock for college age morons looking to get their fix of idiot comedy. Which is specifically unfair and egregiously ironic because these shows tend to be dense with clever parody and satire and sometimes rich internal mythologies.
Perhaps Rick and Morty’s greatest asset and sorest failure is that it requires the least from it’s audience than any Adult Swim show, which leads in the awkward position of being on too late for a mainstream audience but seeming too polished and vanilla for the regular Adult Swim contingency. That being said, Rick and Morty proves to be consistently hilarious, thrilling, and oft times thoughtful and insightful. It can be somewhat exacted to other 30 minute programs like Louie, they transcend the blanket term “comedy” to be just that, a great tv show. The ability of the writers to be so consistently profoundly creative is simply outstanding and co creator Dan Roiland really finds obscenely wide range and depth in his voice portrayal of the two titular characters.
Unfortunately this is more baseless and vague gushing than real analysis but to be frank I still believe this show to be criminally under watched even with the well deserved surging of mainstream viewership earned after the reveal of their couch gag for the Simpsons. And I don't really want to spoil the transcendent bits and believe me there are quite a few.
That being said I will in the future write on this, maybe ill wait till season 2 is over as a natural cut-off point for spoilers.
i dont give a fuuuuck is my new catchphrase
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