Review: Rick And Morty, "That's Amorte" | Season 7, Episode 4
You never would believe where those Keeble cookies come from...
Oh hey, Morty’s back! And boy is he ever. “That’s Amorte” is what we in the reviewing business call “old school,” a trip back to a classic Rick And Morty archetype: Morty learns too much, tries to be a good person, and makes things so much worse that Rick has to step in and fix them. This has been a key dynamic since the beginning of the show, and there’s something almost nostalgic about seeing it pop up again here; the second Morty finds out that the spaghetti Rick has been serving the family is actually corpse meat, you more or less know what you’re in for. Which can be good and bad, especially if, like me, you’ve watched every episode of this show and have grown more than a little tired of “Wow, isn’t it stupid to try and be a good person?”
Obviously I’m being reductive here, but at its worst, R&M can fall into the South Park “nothing matters” trap, offering supposedly complex moral problems whose solution is just “eh, who gives a fuck, if you try you make it worse.” I don’t need ai…