Review: Rick And Morty, "Unmortricken"
You ever think about our culture’s weird feelings on revenge? I do, because I’m like that. Ever since I was a kid, I’ve been reading and watching stories about how bad revenge is for you: how it will never take away your grief; how it only leads to more chaos and destruction; how, at best, even if you succeed, you’ll be more or less back where you started. But also ever since I was a kid, I’ve been reading and watching various heroes lose various loved ones and swear vengeance, and I gotta tell you, I’ve always been into it. You show me a grim, doomed sonofabitch diving into the proverbial meat grinder because he or she (though usually it’s a he) can’t bear to live with loss? I am absolutely there.
So which is it, then? Revenge is bad, or revenge is good? Or is it another one of those annoying situations where both are kind of true, where scratching the itch that gave you pain can provide some satisfaction, even as it largely serves to make the world worse. “Unmortricken” doesn’t exac…
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