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Rick and Morty - Season 3 Episode 10: The Rickchurian Mortydate
Rick & Morty has become one of Adult Swim’s signature series and one of the hottest sci-fi comedies on TV. Season 3 sees mad scientist Rick Sanchez moves in with his daughter's family after disappearing for 20 years and involves them in his wacky adventures.
"The Rickchurian Mortydate" isn't the most dramatic or emotionally devastating episode ever, but it's still a fun, memorable way to wrap up the show's most eclectic season to date.
"The Rickchurian Mortydate" is entertaining (Keith David is, as ever, the best), but there's a clumsiness to it, a feeling of gears-shifting and resets being hit.
When your protagonist is so intelligent, resourceful, and independent that he's capable of crippling humanity, escaping intergalactic prison, and doing absolutely anything he wants, where do you go from there?
What's perhaps most intriguing about the episode - another stellar instalment, although the meta-references are becoming slightly overdone - are the final moments.
After a season teasing us with the grand ascendance of Morty, the episode calmly gave us an adventure where he and Rick were on the same level, maybe not of intelligence, but of apathy, which is where it really matters.
Also, though the family dynamic wasn't handled well this season, a solid theme that did emerge is the true ramifications of Rick's all-powerfulness - for him, for the people around him, and for the rest of the multiverse.
Overall, it's a solid episode that left me feeling a little cold. The rest of this season has been, at times, transcendent. The Rickchurian Mortydate felt more like a recap of themes than an exploration of anything new.