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Rick and Morty

Rick and Morty is easily the best animated show on television right now. Shows like The Simpsons, Futurama and Archer were presumed to have set the bar for animated series in the modern era. With all due respect, Rick and Morty walked in with elements from all these great animated shows and simply decimated the competition.

The show features aliens, alien planets, wormholes, time travel, alternate dimensions, rapid cellular evolution, space travel, and mutation. Disintegration, talking dogs, sentient robots, shrink rays, growth rays, a giant naked Santa Claus in low orbit around the Earth. The humor, the creativity is absolutely mind-blowing. Sometimes it's not comfortable to watch, but that's one thing that makes it so hilarious. It's really dark sometimes and the viewer with a good sense of humor will appreciate that. Sometimes they are dumb, sometimes smart, and sometimes raunchy, but they are always funny. Whatever your expectations of where an episode will go, you will always be wrong. Nothing plays out quite like what you'd think. Every episode keeps you guessing. The characters are the best part of the show, the slow awkward grandson Morty is lovable, grandpa Rick is an alcoholic uncaring genius, and the rest of the family are wonderful. Those characters are well-developed and evolved over the course of the season and the voice by Chris Parnell is out of this world. There are no  meaningless threads.
The writing is awesome and Dan Harmon's creativity shines through just as it did in Community. Not a single episode yet has been remotely clichéd or uninspired. Even with the frequent parodies and obvious references to classic sci-fi plots and other shows it still manages to represent them in a new (usually pretty disturbed, which you will like) way. I was thinking the fourteen age rating feels a little low given the casual planetary genocide which seems to occur in every other episode.

For me, it's a masterpiece.

Recommendation: Highly Recommended.
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