As the previous season ended, I was quite curious to see how they would solve the apocalypse rickmortian at the beginning of the new episodes of ‘Rick and Morty’. It’s been just a year since we said goodbye to them and the series returns to HBO Max through the big door.
As usual, this start is exciting with its twists and turns in which we see the rescue of those stranded Rick and Morty and how the former tries to resolve the Evil Morty mess, or at least get things back to normal in his life. You can already imagine that not everything goes well at first.
looking to the past
Nor is it that we are facing a perfect return, since we continue to observe some of those vices that drags the fiction of Dan Harmon and Justin Roiland (like liking herself too much), but this is compensated by a continuous maturation that the deranged family has had for years.
This first episode takes full advantage of the lore that has built the series, directly calling other seasons with the clear intention that, both the characters and ourselves check how they have evolved. While they’re still slightly cartoonish for the sake of comedy, there’s a lot more to them.
Not only for glimpses into the past but also for the other versions of the characters that we find in the multiversal animated comedy mythology. Most of all, we have this debate about the extent to which Rick is an anti-hero or just an obnoxious narcissist.
Something more classic —we already know how the series works— is the second episode (which we will be able to see next week), which gives more prominence to Summerwho without getting into spoilers lives his own ‘Glass Jungle’ in the famous galactic arcade Blips & Chitz.
Let’s recognize one thing: the structure of the series makes watching one episode of ‘Rick and Morty’ and watching them all the same. The problem that Harmon and Roiland face is not to lower the level or, at least, not to relax in the quality of either the script or the animation. Fortunately, with these first two episodes of season 6, they don’t.