BoJack Horseman, the love of my life, has its own post, in fact it was one of the first texts which I threw here. That's why today I will write a little about the second favourite animation from Netflix, namely Rick and Morty. Although at the beginning I was very skeptical, because I was mad about notorious farts and beating on the screen (to this day I can not stand it, unfortunately, it shallow this series horribly), the next two seasons brought me many surprises. If you are, like me, fans of a depressive alcoholic horse, then give this animation a chance as well. Really worth.
For years I have been defending the opinion that modern animated TV series are one of the most interesting and smartest television productions. Their creators often allow themselves to cross borders that are unbreakable in the drama series, aptly criticize the reality they find and deftly juggle hundreds of references to pop culture. These peculiar collages of associations and motifs are often small masterpieces: although Rick and Morty still have to work for it, it still shows that this series can quickly become one of the best in its genre.
A white, heterosexual family, as we know it from South Park, Simpsons or Family Guy gets here hard on the face: in Rick and Morty the mother has power at home, frustrated and traumatized by the relationship with her father, Beth, who happens look for oblivion at the bottom of a bottle of wine. Her husband Jerry is - let's call it by his first name - a loser: no one respects him, including his own children, wife and father-in-law, he has no job, is unable to provide his family, and can not reach Bet, she's the dominant and somewhat scary. Divorce is said here at every turn, and it quickly ceases to be a secret that the only reason for this family to come was a high school knocked up. But something keeps Beth and Jerry together, who can not live together, but they are not able to stand alone.
The series does not moralize, as it happened in South Park and Simpsons, on the contrary: it raises ethical dilemmas and often leaves with solutions that evoke discomfort in the viewer. Not because they seem bad, but because they are instinctively perceived as good or rational, although they are simply immoral. The absurdity and deep irony permeate this strange, basically ruleless reality in which it is sometimes more convenient to leave the broken world behind and move to the parallel than to repair its errors.
This production gains much deepening the characters heroes and giving them a psychological burden. The story becomes more coherent and the cause and effect sequence emerges from the initial chaos, events finally start to affect the characters behavior and their attitudes. This is best seen on the example of Rick, from which the second season takes off the mask of a cynic and a goshawk, revealing the vastness of suffering; this hero functions constantly on the edge of despair, regularly falling into the abyss and anesthetizing consistently before each encounter with reality. It is worth seeing Rick and Morty for him. I am waiting for more! Especially that I saw somewhere on the web that 4 seasons will be realised in November.
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