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(Note that the last episode of the season is titled “The Rickchurian Mortydate.”)The parallels to our real-life political sphere were obvious, but what was striking about the Citadel’s election was that the entire episode showed us that world through the biased eyes of Morty Trump. It’s a character that Keyser Sozed his way out of our lives at the end of the first season, and his advancement to the highest office in the land offers us the big bad for the show’s future. The reveal of the return of Evil Morty was both unsurprising but wholly satisfying. Then there was Morty Trump, a freakishly adept politician who lies about his populism to rise to the top and win the election in a race that was almost close enough to trigger a recount. That gun was looking for you all along.”Tales From the Citadel” doesn’t dive too deep into the Black Lives Matter movement, but the social commentary provides a backbone for the main story and a three-dimensionality to ground the episode. Your life was at risk the moment you were born. It’s a system where saying the wrong thing to the wrong cop will get a gun shoved in your mouth, not because of what you said, but because of who you are. Turns out it was a starting pistol for an entire episode about police brutality in a corrupt system that treats one group of people with inherent respect regardless of whether they own the entire garment district or work at the plant, and treats another group of people with built-in hatred. When Rick K22 jabbed, “You’re pitching the Policeman’s Ball to a black teenager, here,” to a Morty still trying to get a donation for the Citadel Redevelopment Fund, I gasped a little at the cold slap of that joke. After playing tourist with brief glimpses of background characters in the Citadel, this is our first honest look at what life is like there, which means we get to know a lot of its citizens on an intimate level and start to understand the true meaning of the infinite possibilities for these two.Which brings us to the social commentary. For some reason, there’s a Morty strip club. Ricks are also capable of deep and abiding love…that is turned into a candy drug. Mortys are capable of more than we thought, which includes running for president on a populist platform while Ricks fart on stage. Not slapstick distractions, but incredibly clever ideas meant to make us rethink the characters we already know so well (who were busy high-fiving their way through “mermaid puss” apparently). But there were also a ton of gags, tucked into every corner. There was no looking away from the violence and malice.
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Contrast our God’s eye view of the Citadel with the sheer goofiness of Noob-Noob or the moronic aliens holding Rick hostage at the start of the season, and you get a good idea of how depraved and desperate that sin city of Ricks and Mortys is. Sanchez III as an opiate for the masses, we got window after window into a crumbling society. From Cop Morty flying off the handle and flaunting his fragile self-esteem, to the suicidal “Slick” Morty and his coming-of-age gang adventure, to Simple Rick’s brain juice harnessed by Rick D. This season has been slowly building up our tolerance for the kind of comedy that’s less laugh-out-loud and more dark or jaw-dropping, and we were rewarded for earning those callouses.
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