Review: Rick and Morty, "Ricktional Mortpoon's Rickmans Mortcation" | Season 6, Episode 10
A strong season ends with a question: can Rick change; and does it even matter if he tries?
Here’s a confession: I recently got back into Star Wars. I’m as surprised as anyone. I more or less tapped out after Last Jedi; while interesting, that movie’s efforts to break with tradition clanged against its simultaneous efforts to honor said tradition, and the result felt incoherent to me in a way that more or less killed my interest in what came next. The fact that everyone seemed to despise Rise of Skywalker only confirmed my… decision? I’m not even sure it was a decision. I spend a fair amount of time on Twitter complaining about the stranglehold that Disney has on popular culture right now, but a lot of the time, it feels like my life would be simpler—and happier—if I just rolled with it. Every so often I try, which is why I saw the new Doctor Strange in theaters. (That and Sam Raimi.) But it never sticks. I guess there are things about you that you can’t change no matter how much you wish you could.
Maybe I could make a robot that looks like me and loves comi…