Review: Rick and Morty, "Rick: A Mort Well Lived"
It’s a fool’s game to try and pick out a distinctive creator’s voice in a collaborative work, especially given my relative unfamiliarity with Justin Roiland’s solo writing. But if you put a gun to my head and asked me to give up the codes, I’d have to admit that at least part of “Rick: A Mort Well Lived” (the Die Hard part) is about as Dan Harmon as you can get. A pop culture reference beaten so far into the ground that it somehow manages to emerge on the other side of the planet unscathed? Yup. A level of self-awareness so thorough that it’s impossible to decide if it’s self-parody or outright contempt? Hell yes. Some third thing that’s really just me repeating the first two things using slightly different words? Yippee ki-yay, mother plucker.
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