![]() Stream It Or Skip It: 'Disco Inferno' on Netflix, a Horror Short Set in a Chaste Church-Turned-Sinful Discoġ1 New Halloween Movies to Watch This Spooky Season ‘The Craft’ Gave Power To Alt-Goth Weird Girls With One Perfect Line Still, nothing got a big laugh out of me.'The Exorcist: Believer' Comes to Digital, But When Will It Be on Peacock? ![]() There’s some decently chuckle-worthy stuff in there, most of which comes from Jerry being charmingly lame (the third time in his life that Jerry shit his pants from eating too much soup was because, “to be fair, it was cold outside and the soup was warm”). However, a problem it has that has been persistent this season is it’s not all that funny. So, “Amortycan Grickfitti” has a solid plot that still squeezes in its fair share of sci-fi violence while not forgetting to do some decent sitcom character stuff. It also doesn’t feel too unreal that Rick admits some love for Jerry, as, afterwards, he ensures him this will never happen again. ![]() I know being the lamest is Jerry’s whole jam and all, but there have been episodes where the shitting on him gets so excessive that I really do just feel bad for the guy, so a whole plot in which the moral is basically “be a little nicer to Jerry” suits me fine. This pays off at the end when Rick is forced to (through some confusing, circuitous logic) have a moment of 100% sincerity, which means he actually has to admit he, in some way, loves Jerry. The Rick, Beth, and Jerry plot is mostly one big running gag about demons from Hell who find bad things good (much like “Oscar the fucking Grouch” as Rick puts it, which is one of the episode’s best jokes). Has Rick and Morty Lost the Zeitgeist? By Joe Matar Regardless, Morty, Summer, Rick, and (to a lesser extent) Beth all have believable arcs that present them as not totally irredeemable murderous sociopaths, and that’s good enough for me. It’s not like “Amortycan Grickfitti” is a feel-good lovefest or anything, nor does it come anywhere near plumbing the dark, emotional depths of something like a “Rick Potion #9.” Much of the episode is still dedicated to hyper-violent, carefree dispatching of background characters. Yes, they also did this in “Mortyplicity” and “A Rickconvenient Mort,” but it was so brief in “Mortyplicity” that it almost felt inconsequential and so forced in “A Rickconvenient Mort” that I don’t think anybody bought the emotionality it was selling. “Amortycan Grickfitti,” therefore, is refreshing in how the characters display a bit of heart. You want to find something to love, or at least root for, in a sitcom family, so it’s off-putting when the Smiths show such disdain for one another they barely seem to care whether the family they came with is the one they’re leaving with. ![]() But that doesn’t change the fact that it can get exhausting watching the Smith family chew each other out all the time. Sure, it makes sense that they hate each other their obvious, escalating dysfunctionality has been on display for over four seasons now. But the more pervasive issue is that all the protagonists of this show seem to hate each other. Sometimes an episode gets lost wayyyy up inside its butthole, Morty ( as yammered about in the opening of last week’s review), with a sci-fi puzzle box premise that gets so convoluted it feels like you’re in the writers’ room, listening to them work out the machinations of their plot. I just want there to be some sci-fi as well as some sitcom and a problem that pops up often in Rick and Morty these days is it forgets about the sitcom part. It’s not like I ask for a lot out of my favorite sci-fi sitcom. This RICK AND MORTY review contains spoilers.
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