Some of the darkest comedy in existence right now is hidden away on a faux movie podcast called On Cinema. The Adult Swim web series has been running for three years, and in that time it has slowly developed the fictional universe of two deeply flawed human beings constantly making one another miserable. It’s a weekly examination…
How confident are you in yourself? That’s a question at the core of Rick and Morty’s Season 2 premiere, “A Rickle in Time,” an episode which as usual plays with science-fiction tropes in a brilliant way that also services the series’ overarching narrative. After six months in the show’s world and 15 months in ours, Rick,…
Rick and Morty is a show that completely transcends its genre to become one of the most brilliant pieces of television I’ve ever seen. That brilliance has never been more clear than in the show’s eighth episode, “Rixty Minutes,” among the best half hours of a comedy series in the past decade.
BY BRENDAN MORROW 