The main story with Rick, Morty, and Summer was great. The show showed off its sci-fi creativity chops with Rick dating Unity (hooray for Christina Hendricks and Patton Oswalt as a borg-esque collective), and Summer's do-gooder issues with trying to fix things were a great comedic twist. I loved the line "First race war, huh?" and all the Unity-related gags were great and inventive for both Rick and his grandkids. The Jerry/Beth storyline didn't work as well for me, though it did deepen Beth's character a bit, which was nice. Lots of laughs all around. Then, things get serious.
Rick's suicide attempt with the background music was, as this show occasionally is, heartbreaking. It's always powerful when shows like this show the well of emotion behind all the absurd humor. Quality episode for sure. Probably an 8.5/10 (the Beth-Jerry stuff dragged it down a bit).
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The main story with Rick, Morty, and Summer was great. The show showed off its sci-fi creativity chops with Rick dating Unity (hooray for Christina Hendricks and Patton Oswalt as a borg-esque collective), and Summer's do-gooder issues with trying to fix things were a great comedic twist. I loved the line "First race war, huh?" and all the Unity-related gags were great and inventive for both Rick and his grandkids. The Jerry/Beth storyline didn't work as well for me, though it did deepen Beth's character a bit, which was nice. Lots of laughs all around. Then, things get serious.
Rick's suicide attempt with the background music was, as this show occasionally is, heartbreaking. It's always powerful when shows like this show the well of emotion behind all the absurd humor. Quality episode for sure. Probably an 8.5/10 (the Beth-Jerry stuff dragged it down a bit).