Review: Rick and Morty, "A Rick in King Mortur's Court" | Season 6, Episode 9
In which Morty makes some mistakes, but Rick isn’t, like, a jerk about it
Okay, so technically, I shouldn’t be opening this review by once again saying how consistent and good Rick And Morty’s sixth season has been. I’ve covered that already. Multiple times, in fact. And while I’m not currently in therapy right now, the imaginary therapist who lives in my head is telling me that a reviewer can’t just repeat the same praise every week. Even if the review subject is a success in part because it’s doing the same things right over and over, my job is to… I dunno, find new angles? Fancy it up a bit. Unfortunately, I’m still stuck in meta mode from last week. Even my self-aware self-aware commentary has become stale.
Regardless of how difficult it makes my job, “A Rick In King Mortur’s Mort” is, yes, another banger–probably not an all-time classic, but in the upper echelons of R&M episodes, the sort of premise and execution that pulls in all the stuff about this show I’ve come to love: the on-going commentary on absurd events, the building, uncom…