Bethic Twinstinct

Season six has been solid if perhaps unspectacular so far for me, and this third episode was probably the best of the run so far, but still away beneath the quality the show has hit in it's prime.

It's Thanksgiving and Space Beth (Sarah Chalke) is visiting. She and Beth (Sarah Chalke) begin an inevitable, narcissistic love affair which Summer (Spencer Grammer) and Morty (Justin Roiland) quickly become aware of. They try to mentally distract themselves by playing Morty's new games console, which offers unprecedented levels of realism.

A rare episode based almost entirely at the house, the structure of the show is slightly odd too with the traditional "A" and "B" format swapped for essentially one story, with the games console business feeding back into it. So, it's not really feeding the wider mythology, or taking us on an extraordinary adventure, or (thankfully) another movie parody - it's a character story, dealing perhaps with why this Beth chooses to stay with the family. It's funnier than the previous couple too, most of which comes from the games console storyline and what the oft repeated boast when a new console comes out "heightening the realism" could actually mean.

Again, good rather than truly great.

Most of viewers look for gun shooting laser blasting star wars whatever in rick and morty. All the infinite ricks, some are cooler than rick but no one is cooler than rick because he is the rickest rick just by being himself. This episode is the rickest rick, this is what's all about. Few other episodes/shows can say so much with so little. Seasons 4 and 5 felt like they were forced, had no essence and there was little hope for season 6. The first two episodes in season 6 were more than expected, but this 3rd one encapsulated the show's quintessence like very few others. Great job from the creators.

Update: Rewatching this after restarting the entire series still has the same effect. Made me laugh as hell and I stand by the first review. It is one of the best episodes for me and I'm glad I saw it the same the second time.

The moment I saw may-be-a-clone Beth in season 4, I knew the events of this episode will eventually take place. Beth is too much of a narcissist, and Jerry too much of a perverted doormat, for this not to happen. But that does not stop it from being hilarious. It is the hallmark of great writing where even the most absurd plotlines actually make sense for the characters and world.

It has been a while since I laughed out loudly at a Rick & Morty episode. That changed today.

The mocking of "realism" in videogames is also on point. And there were quite few callbacks to beloved episodes of the past. This season keeps going strong.

It's just awkward and weird the whole time I don't how to explain it I just didn't really like it that much buts it was an ok episode overall but the whole awkwardness feeling during the parts with Beth and space Beth were just weird and it didn't really as much of anything to the main plot I know this was just a fun episode probably but I hate all the incest in Rick and morty it's not funny it's just disgusting, weird and just frankly straight up annoying I've been rewatching Rick and morty and I'm at this episode probably my least favorite so far I will see maybe some of season 7 will be worse.

Enjoyable fun awkward R&M episode without crazy actions and killing and portal guns and Evil/Prime Morty/Rick.

I really missed this vibe from the first few seasons when everything started slowly and smoothly from the house, it had been a long time.

In recent episodes and seasons, there were lots of actions and violence like Morty going crazy killing everyone in Planetina episode, death crystal episode or his mortal fight with the portal guy in last season; or Summer doing a die-hard or killing a bunch of monsters in the first two episodes of this season; or Beths killing some creators/people. I mean, we had enough of every one of the family being badass and killing actions, at least for me.

Therefore, this episode completely fits with its dark jokes; I know, it might get creepy and tbh, it gets; but, isn't that the point?

Another thing that I enjoyed in this episode was the part about the real game that they were playing. The consol looked cool and with the "real" game, we were expecting something crazy like interdimensional cable TV or Roy game, that they will be sucked into the game or trapped in the game, but the concept of a "real" game was a meta for the real life, when every real thing is boring.