![]() This season, the Smith family exist to be bitterly snarky toward one another as they hack down multitudes of clones and mutant turkeys and sperms with no pause to breathe.Įpisodes this season feel packed with stuff: crazy plot escalations, violence, and visual insanity thrown at you almost constantly. The problem of how next to evolve this multiverse and these characters has been present since at least season four, if not earlier, but it’s become a lot more noticeable in season five, which focuses so much on spectacle (and a hefty helping of brazen stupidity) that it’s not just character development that’s being forgotten, but character in general. Therefore, in lieu of meaningful character stuff, the series has increasingly focused on sci-fi spectacle. After putting Morty and Summer through the multidimensional wringer and Jerry and Beth through a divorce and back again (and there was also that cloning business for Beth), all the characters seem to have reached peak cynicism, so it’s been understandably difficult to develop them much. One of my major complaints about newer episodes of Rick and Mortyis the lack of focus on characterization. ![]() This RICK AND MORTY review contains spoilers. ![]()
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