My chief problem with "Rick & Morty", aside from the producers being assholes as it turns out, is that the show seemed like the same joke over and over again. Watch Rick be a self-loathing drunk! Again! Watch him crush Morty's illusions! Again! Watch Morty's family be rubbish! Again! But I admit I've only seen scattered episodes in the first two seasons and never sat down to really watch the show. Mostly I watched it over my girlfriend's shoulder, so to speak. The ending of the 2nd season intrigued me because it suggested growth but my guess is that it worked out much the same as all the attempts at developing Greg House. Whatever happened, he never grew up.
@kara_dreamer It's anything but that, really. 😕
@TrollDecker Anything but...what's the antecedent of "that"?
@TrollDecker ah! well, can't argue since I've only seen maybe five episodes max, I can only give my superficial view. The show just didn't grab me and, aside from the episode where Morty's dog gets uplifted, nothing I saw really stuck in my memory beyond self-loathing drunk, crushed illusions, &c.
@kara_dreamer I mean, yeah, those tend to be common themes, but there are gradual evolutions and plot threads that carry through to later episodes (like the fact that Rick and Morty abandoned their home universe and took the place of recently-deceased versions of themselves).
@kara_dreamer It's not really just the same joke over and over again. It's a persistent continuity that gradually evolves over each season.