It Takes A Certain Type of Person To Appreciate The Cynicism of Rick and Morty: Season 1- 2 Review

SEASON 1 Rick and Morty is an honest and cruel look at the modern world through a grandfather and grandson relationship. It tells a story of the evolution of family values, hits on disturbing real life issues using enlightening adventures of inter-dimensional travel. We begin with a family, like any other family with a mad genius grandfather living in the home and stealing away the grandson for heinous adventures. Rick, grandfather to Morty, father to Beth, the woman of the household with granddaughter Summer, and son in law Jerry. Rick is a genius scientist and inventor capable of traveling throughout infinite dimensions. Instead of using this ability to cure cancer, he uses it to feed his more addictive pleasures in life and engage in the most entertaining debauchery. Because in reality, what else would you really do with a portal gun…?

Episode one really sets up the culture of this television world. Rick storms into Morty’s room in the middle of the night drunk to drag him into a newly built spaceship. Drunkenly stammering and fishing for compliments from Morty about the ship, Rick then leisurely admits to just needing to make a bomb. You see quickly Morty’s feelings and terror on the matter and the episode divulges into chaos. I for one, came to this show not knowing it was on Adult Swim and thinking it was another great youth cartoon that appealed to an adult audience. I quickly found out this is not for children. Episode 11 “Risky Business” Summer, Rick and Morty have …