TV Show of the Week: Rick and Morty – Season 4, Episode 1: Edge of Tomorty: Rick Die Rickpeat

It’s back, and it isn’t better than ever; it’s as good as it has always been, and that’s awesome. Rick and Morty loves having fun with the concept of infinite realities and possibilities, from the incredible to the incredibly creative angles that comes with the multiverse.

During a recent interview between the show’s creator, Justin Roland, he stated that this will be the perfect episode for new to people to be introduced to the show, without having the need to go back and catch up with the previous 3 seasons. Only do that if and when this episode has done its job and gotten you interested in seeing more adventures of Rick and Morty. You can easily binge all three seasons in one day, that’s for sure.

It certainly does what Justin stated and made sure this premiere wasn’t sewn together only with references from previous seasons, just a few handpicked ones to allow the experienced fans to swing from gratefully. To a new watcher, Mr. Meeseeks is a strange blue alien who appears when the button to a box is pressed and does any command you tell it to do, whereas to someone who has followed the show from day one will know exactly who Mr. Meeseeks is and remember the episode specifically dedicated to the helpful blue character – the one where Jerry literally broke Meeseeks’ spirit trying to cut his golf score down by a couple of strokes, and has popped up in the background of a couple of episodes here and there, since.

When the show explores the multiverse as it did in this episode, those are some of my favourite segments, purely because it shows just how creative Justin Rolland and Dan Harmon are, and the freedom can be had with a cartoon.

With Rick’s consciousness being transported across the multiverse, Morty is having an adventure himself, but on Earth, trying to make sure he doesn’t get killed in a humiliating way, but instead with the love of his life by his side. Morty has a crystal that lets him see how he is going to die dependent on which decision he makes at any given time, and so he specifically chooses only those decisions which will lead him to the death he wants. What’s crazy about this storyline aside from what I’ve just said is how wacky it gets. It appears to get further and further away from where he wants to go, and we’ll never know how it goes from being a part of some hideous alien tree-like substance in the desert which is somehow providing life-support to dying happily of old age with the love of his life by his side. But that’s Rick and Morty for you – it’s completely and entertainingly, intelligently, wacky in every way.

And to top it all, we get another reference to Rick having knowledge that he’s a character in a TV show, providing more evidence for that particular theory which I’m sure we all know is true but the show hasn’t outright confirmed yet.

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Antony Hudson

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