![]() ![]() Peace on rustic cat person planet is preserved through one awful night of orgiastic bloodshed, and that night just happens to be the same one Rick and Morty pick to descend from the heavens in search of wiper fluid(That they wind up drenched in blood after attempting to avoid having to look at a smashed bug is a clever piece of writing). ‘Look Who’s Purging Now’ posits a world, one of many, where a scenario like the one that drives the action in 2013’s The Purge forms the basis of society. ![]() Now that it’s here, it’s easy to see that it has. “It’s been a long time comin’,” he screams at Rick, threatening to tear his grandfather’s guts out and mash them into his face with his cyborg hands. ![]() Since his introduction Morty has been our audience surrogate and a channel for traditional Judeo-Christian Earthling morality, but along the way we’ve seen his ugliest urges(drugging Jessica, losing his empathy for strangers) come to the forefront as protracted exposure to Rick’s fucked-up life has, predictably, fucked him up. It’s more interested in delivering phantasmagoria laced with banal human failings than in preserving the idea of its characters that its fans have come to value. Morty’s rampage might, at first blush, read as a derailment of the character. Plenty of people have responded to that, forming attachments to the show’s deeply flawed leads, pumping out football fields of fanfiction, and photoshopping umpteen flower crowns onto poor, battered Morty and tormented Rick. Still, even in the midst of inhumanity Rick and Mortyis committed to keeping some kind of heart beating at its rotten core. We love to watch the titular duo butt heads and squabble over petty shit while the universe around them suffers for it. This is, unless you’re particularly squeamish about the aforementioned abuse(or gratuitous drool), right on the money. It’s a show predicated on the idea that watching a drunk abuse his grandson across space and time is inherently amusing. ![]()
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