Amortycan Grickfitti

It wasn't the worst Rick and Morty episode but the writers have done a lot better.

This feels like the change that happened in American Dad in single season. Went from pretty good to pathetically bad in one season and remained awful for the last x seasons.

I dont know what happened here or who got replaced this season but this IS NOT the Rick and Morty we knew. The humour is different and on the nose, the stories are not even half as original and entertaining as before and the previously subtle witty commentary on various pol-soc things is now in the open and totally generic.

Went from 9/10 to 5 or 4/10 tops.

I'm sure plenty of people will disagree but I can't remember three consecutive episodes in the history of the show that were so unremarkable. Last season episodes 2-4 weren't great but 3-5 this season is significantly worse (IMO). It's obviously far too early to even think about writing off the show but season 5 has been a real disappointment so far.

Decent return to form after the two least funny episodes in the series. The car was a nice returning character that was pretty funny, Rick felt like Rick again, although the hell subplot was a little overwritten. At least this episode made an attempt at good situational humor instead of relying on gross out like last week's garbage fire. Definitely not their best, but still felt like Rick and morty, which the show often doesn't in this latest season.

In the past few seasons, we've been introduced to a grand, sweeping, infinite multiverse filled with infinite versions and iterations of the Smith family. Infinite story lines, some of which we've caught a glimpse of. The foundation of a grand tale, the legend of Rick Sanchez and his progeny.

From S5E5, you'd never know it. It's filled with self-referential jokes and callbacks. It's stale. It's small-minded.

In a word - it's boring. This episode bored me. It was not funny. It was not insightful or deep. It did not advance the overarching story of the Smith family. There was no character growth. Most of what we saw and heard had already been seen and heard in other episodes.

It was just...boring.