![]() There are your expected jokes, like the Jack and the Beanstalk parody leading to the horrifying and brutal twitchy death of the pretty innocent giant, or the whole prison and eventual courtroom parody, or the weird tavern cut onto the side of the giggantic staircase, which give us some neat one-liners but are ultimately unremarkable. ![]() it's a neat little focus on Morty for once, and it's a motivation that fits with how he's sort of a doormat, but has enough.Īnd for the most part, while the episode focuses on the Meeseeks plotline, we get cutaways to the fun, but not especially exciting or groundbreaking scenes of Rick and Morty going through Ye Olde Fantasyland, with pretty generic villagers asking for them to help save their village or whatever. After a particularly traumatic experience where Morty was forced to kill an interdimensional time-travelling demon clone who looks like Beth (or something), he decides that he's had enough, and basically makes a bet with Rick - he'll choose the adventure this time, and prove that sometimes Morty can do something good. I wouldn't call "Meeseeks and Destroy" my favourite episode or anything, but the main Rick and Morty plot is pretty. Because as assholish, cynical and edgelord-anarchist as Rick and Morty can sometimes get, there are lines drawn in the sand, and those lines are important in separating Rick and Morty from being a show with some crass jokes to just crass. And it's not that Rick and Morty is any sort of huge, ground-breaking and deep discussion about the horrors of rape or whatever, but the fact that the show actually portrays what lesser shows would've probably used as a gag, and ended up showing just how horrific it is, ends up being kind of a pretty respectable thing. Because it still is, which really illustrates just how horrifying rape is.Īnd that is what manages to really separate Rick and Morty from the glut of other edgy or crass adult-oriented cartoons like South Park or Family Guy. It plays out pretty horrifically, and while Morty himself doesn't actually get raped (he actually succeeds in smashing his assailant's face into a toilet), the sexual assault is certainly there and it's only the bizarre oddity of using a jelly bean as an assailant that makes the scene. And I feel like we should discuss that scene first, which, of course, is the scene where Morty is assaulted by King Jellybean in a tavern's toilet in a pretty horrific attempted rape sequence. You know that scene, if you've watched the episode, and, honestly, chances are, it's a scene that'll get brought up in most conversations about this show anyway, once you peel away the massive layer of memes and quotable lines from the fandom. As the library becomes stagnant, every cancelation is a huge loss.Y'know, I remembered watching this episode the first time and going "what the fuuuuuck" on one particular scene. If Netflix wants to survive in the new era, it'll need to be willing to let shows like The Imperfects have a chance. ![]() Original content is what got Netflix to where it is today, but they've gone the way of the industry as a whole. Netflix refuses to bet on anything that doesn't have a movie star on the poster or a marketable IP in its title. It could've found a young adult audience that would've seen it as their favorite superhero universe. The Imperfects has no source material, its new content. HBO Max series Our Flag Means Death demonstrated the power of word-of-mouth marketing. The service wouldn't even have to spend much. ![]() No one seemed to care about it when it dropped, because Netflix had no interest in telling the people who might enjoy it what it is. The Imperfects is a fun superhero show with a unique aesthetic, a great cast of underrated young talents, and a ton of creativity on display. ![]()
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