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Rick and Morty irresponsibly tried social commentary in season premiere
Rick and Morty made its return Sunday night after a long two year wait, and it seems like the writers wanted their titular characters to catch up on some of the things they missed during the hiatus. The showrunners decided to use the main characters as avatars to express their opinions on some of today’s hot cultural debates, and they made a mess of it.
Edge of Tomorty: Rick Die Repeat picks up long after where the show left off. Rick has managed to mend his relationship with the rest of the family in between seasons, on the conditions that he has greater respect for them and their autonomy. He grabs Morty towards the beginning of the episode, and after reluctantly asking for permission to take him, they head to another universe to mine death crystals.
Rick dies towards the beginning of the episode after Morty crashes their ship in his quest to create the ideal death for himself. Luckily, Rick has backed himself up in hologram form and can be fully revived once Morty creates a clone body for him to take over. Morty refuses to do so — doing so may make his ideal death with his high school crush less likely — and Rick ends up spending the majority of the episode in hologram form.
Majority of the episode features Rick trying to convince Morty to give him a body to live in…
