Rick is back baby! And its as absurd as ever. After two
highly praised seasons Rick and Morty have been on hiatus for over a year. The
last episode of season two left us with a cliffhanger. Rick was in jail and
Earth had joined the byzantine Galactic Federation.
As the Galactic
Federation tries to hack Rick’s brain the federation has turned Earth into a
giant nanny state which pays people in pills.
Desperate to escape this parody of government gone amuck, Summer exhumes
the Grave of this dimensions Rick and gets a copy of his teleportation gun.
Morty and Summer wide up in the dimension he and Morty
abandoned, where their family destroys the portal gun and starts after Summer
who “Smells of Rick” She is saved however by Rick’s from the council of Rick’s
who can’t allow Rick technology to fall into the wrong hands.
Meanwhile we see the origins of Rick’s portal gun, but of
course it’s a trap and Rick uploads into the body of the agent trying to break
him. At this moment Seal Team Rick breaks in to assassinate him. Rick steals
one of their bodies and kills them. Back at the Council Rick steals the body of
another, higher ranking Rick to rescue his grand kids, who are currently on
trial. Rick teleports the entire Citadel or Rick back into the prison and huge
fight breaks out. Rick kills the council
of Rick’s.
Rick, Morty and Summer proceed to the center of the prison. Rick uses the alien computers to undermine
their fiat currency which sends the government into anarchy. Rick and the kids return to Earth where Jerry
gives Beth an ultimatum, him or Rick. She divorces him.
This episode was brilliant on so many levels. From the absurdity of
Rick to the over the top parody of bureaucracy that is the Galactic Federation.
The episode managed to tie up most of the loose ends from the last season. It
was an absurd roller-coaster ride, which ended with Rick giving a crazy hard to
follow rant; a call back to the first episode.
The Social commentary was subtle and ripe. The Galactic
federation could be seen as the authoritarian conclusion of several trends in
today’s western democracies towards centralization and “protecting” citizens from
themselves. That the leaders of the federation are giant insects plays into
this. The nanny state metaphor is hammered home by The families new robot
butler who forces them to take their pills and watches them for the state. It’s
fitting that the only character who seems happy in this system is Jerry, whose
many, many faults are treated as virtues by the new system. He takes pride
performing a job with no real meaning as long as he is rewarded and exulted for
it. I hope that Jerry still makes
appearances after the divorce because he is one of my favorite characters.
Rick and Morty teaches us that existence is huge and our
lives are insignificant, so life is all about what you make of it, and that
life is made better with more Rick and Morty.
-Gedaemon
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