RICK AND MORTY SEASON 5 EPISODE 3 DRIVER
RICK AND MORTY SEASON 5 EPISODE 3 CRACK

As a result the season's biggest sin is that it's simply not very funny, and occasionally openly hostile towards those watching it. Why do you guys want to go around the track so much? Fine I'll do it and make fun of you for wanting it.

RICK AND MORTY SEASON 5 EPISODE 3 DRIVER

It feels like riding in a racecar with a driver who is utterly bored with the situation and resents greatly the desire of those in the car to extract pleasure from the things that they do. It's as though the creators half hate the show and its fans, or find the burden of character development unbearable (the final episode's payoffs were all but muted by the fourth wall demolishing commentating bizarrely resisting getting pulled into serialization in an off-putting and narratively vapid way), and can no longer find humor in their own project, only endless cynicism crammed into conceptual vehicles that work to varying degrees (Mortyplicity was a great concept executed to mediocrity, A Rickconvenient Mort was a terrible spoof).

The writing here is no longer winking and whimsical, it's downright smug and snarky (while also being rather lazy).

RICK AND MORTY SEASON 5 EPISODE 3 CRACK

It's as though the creators half hate the show Definitely the weakest season thus far, no episode in this round would likely crack the top half of best episodes of the series. Like any other show, it's impossible to expect Rick and Morty to be firing on all cylinders all the time, but considering that the latest season is only three episodes in and two of them fell flat in their execution, it's hard to know whether the rest of the season can pick up the slack.Definitely the weakest season thus far, no episode in this round would likely crack the top half of best episodes of the series. The only way in which this most recent episode improves on the former is that it at least strived to also deliver a B-story, even if it fell short of expectations. 'A Rickconvenient Mort' feels closer to 'Mortyplicity,' in that both episodes rest on one idea, and try to play it out without any significant twists, turns, or meta-commentary. So far, the fifth season of Rick and Morty appears to be losing steam. The Season 5 trailer, released Tuesday, hints at a full-on Voltron parody, some kind of Hellraiser BDSM dungeon-crawling, and a strange horny ocean man. However, just like everything else in the episode, there is little to be gleaned from this. There does seem to be some thematic crossover between both stories in 'A Rickconvenient Mort,' with the idea of saving the Earth played against three planets (well, two really, which results in a truly uncomfortable end-credits scene) falling to cataclysmic events. Morty crying to Beth that Planetina is gone doesn't hit home the same way as Rick's depressive state at the end of 'Auto Erotic Assimilation.' There is some connective tissue in the episode that seems to be hinting at Beth and Jerry's annoyance that their kids don't listen to them or respect what they have to say, but this idea is never fully developed, nor does it come off as more than a plot contrivance to push Morty and Planetina closer together. Rick and Mortys fourth season sometimes seesaws in quality, but many episodes capture the series. By the end of the episode, when Morty and Planetina break up, there are no emotional stakes.

On a deeper level, Morty and Planetina's relationship never comes off as more than a teenage boy becoming obsessed with a woman whom he knows so little about. While there needs to be some economy in storytelling for a 30-minute animated show, there should be a little more to explain her turn than just a quick montage that sees her going from putting out forest fires to throwing a molotov cocktail through the window of a governor's mansion. Planetina's turn to full-blown murderer also comes a little too quick.

Rick and morty season 5 episode 3