![]() ![]() The portal thing doesn’t have much thematic backbone, but it’s a good excuse for very creative and clever gimmicks – just when you think the episode has run out of ideas, it reveals another, in the form of a joke or an action beat or both. There’s no denying that, as weird as this is, the sincerity both ideas are treated with helps to elevate the entire episode. ![]() The second is that Morty, thanks to an accident with a portal gun, ends up with a portal on his hand that connects to one in the leg of a guy named Nick, whom he springs from an asylum for a spiteful anti-Rick adventure. The first is that Rick, thanks to a wheel of random things he could theoretically replace Morty with, replaces his grandson with two crows who teach him not only about empathy but a dense hierarchy of crow society and history, which Rick becomes rather taken with, realizing, in the process, that his relationship with Morty has historically been predicated almost entirely on abuse and exploitation. ![]() “Forgetting Sarick Mortshall” feels more like classic Rick and Morty fare, with a pointless argument about Morty’s usefulness spinning out into a couple of deranged ideas. By and large, and taken together, I think the two work as a fun outing of Rick and Morty, but I’m not sure they do as any kind of meaningful coda to such a bizarrely inconsistent season. Both are peppered with funny gags, some clever ideas, and some cool visuals, but even the worst episodes have those things. The whole thing’s a mess of contradictions and mixed messages making us wait a month for the two-part finale just seemed like further proof that the audience getting to enjoy the episodes is something of an afterthought.Įven the finale barely resembles one, comprising two episodes, “Forgetting Sarick Mortshall” and “Rickmurai Jack”, that are kind of connected through a plot thread but don’t have much resemblance to one another, thematically. You love its enthusiastic rejection of formulaic storytelling norms and then realize in some instances it’d work better for abiding by them you want the grand madness of a constantly escalating sci-fi premise until you realize it’s too convoluted and out-there for any actual drama to exist within it. This season of Rick and Morty has had its fair share of ups and downs, and sometimes it’s difficult to know what to even make of the show, let alone where to stand on it. This recap of the Rick and Morty Season 5 finale, two episodes titled “Forgetting Sarick Mortshall” and “Rickmurai Jack”, contains spoilers. Rick and Morty’s fifth season bows out with a two-parter that challenges some of the show’s long-held ideas, even if it can’t quite escape its newfound inconsistency. ![]()
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