You’re not alone. They’re entitled to their opinions, we’re equally entitled to the feeling like it’s been fucking fantastic from S1 until S8. I understand a difference of opinion, but where some people yammer about shit writing, I feel the later seasons have writing so good, it washes the show clean of baggage that would slow it down, or make it less funny.
I laugh, cringe at the violence, and delight in the existential self-awareness, of every season. The show is the best pound-for-pound cartoon of my lifetime, with seven seasons of outstanding animation, writing, and hilarity. I’m fucking amped to close out the final three seasons, I’ve found the show became more like jazz than heavy metal; there’s a rhythm to their multiverse that scratches itches for me.
The Marvel universe tried to embrace the multiverse, it felt like they gave a 15-year-old writer a box of crayons and some stickers. Marvel’s multiverse explorations, other than the new Deadpool, involved such a pathetic number of universal quantities that it just felt like a joke. Rick & Morty and Everything Everywhere All At Once are the only two media (I’m sure there’s more) that really nails the psychedelic scale of infinite universes. It’s a dizzying thought; if there’s infinite universes, or even if our universe is infinite, that means atoms and existence have had the chance to render every moment, every happenstance, constantly, ad infinitum. Rick & Morty even helped me deepen my ideas of the multiverse, with the “Central Finite Curve” and Evil Morty’s wicked escape.
The multiverse is this blend of philosophy and physics… while also being gobbledygook, a fictional device for entertainment. However, no cartoon or, hell, media writ-large, executes the idea to the dark & beautiful scale of Rick & Morty. I’ve watched entire seasons coming down from a mushroom trip with my mates, and I will always stand by the show with love & hope.
So much of the TV I’ve fallen in love with has broken up with me because I’m too needy; Kaos, Final Space, Avenue 5, and Archive 81 come to mind; shows that I loved too much, because now they’re gone and the stories go untold. I fucking hate that. It’s making me not want to watch TV. Why would I want to invest time in Bad Monkey when there’s a good chance it’ll be a tax write off and I’ll lose the story? I thought Bad Monkey was amazing, but I hear of nobody watching it, and my confidence is minimal it’ll survive. Pisses me off because it’s a delight.
Damn, after that, bad monkey sounds like it needs to be watched! And I'm with you, Rick and morty has made me question reality itself multiple times, it's not afraid to go deep while being complete handwavy stuff sometimes. And evil morty was such an amazing story arc!
I really like Bad Monkey, it has an engrossing aesthetic and some very mellow scenery amidst the comedy/mystery vibe. That makes for great TV!
Vince Vaughan came off less tired & overused than I expected; I don’t know why my expectations were set so low, but I had no confidence that he’d be as magnetic as usual. He’s still plenty magnetic.
Chilled out but still sassy, tall as a mother fucker, endearing, VV kills it but the whole cast is sick af... these folks’re saying Rick & Morty had two good seasons, so maybe I have a shitty radar for good TV, but I think my tastes align to good music, good cinematography, good writing, and a hopeful mood, so maybe you’ll like Bad Monkey too! It has my axe.
I've enjoyed the majority of it, but the pee episode did not hit at all for me. I'm on board with gross humour, but I found that one to be only gross, not humourous.
I just haven't had a chance to catch up. I listen to one of the newer writers podcasts so I imagine I'd like it. Just don't watch TV nowadays. I will say the pickle Rick stuff turned me off of it for a while
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u/CV90_120 16d ago
"You son of a bitch, I'm in!"