Rick and Morty Season 9 Finale Review & Recap
Warning: This assessment incorporates full spoilers for Rick and Morty Season 9, Episode 10!
I would not fairly go as far as to say that Rick and Morty Season 9 saved its greatest episode for final. “Ricks Days, Seven Nights” is fairly laborious to prime. But “Field of Dreams” continues to be positively an in depth second, and for lots of the similar causes. This episode caps off the season with a really successful mix of high-concept humor and crushing existential drama.
This week, we get launched to the idea of a Rick property sale, the place Rick’s (Ian Cardoni) dying leads his multiversal counterparts to swoop in and declare his stuff like opportunistic vultures. It’s all the time enjoyable seeing alternate variations of Rick and Morty (Harry Belden), particularly now on this post-Citadel period. But in the end, the entire property sale factor is only a means to an finish for the actual meat of this episode, which is Morty’s resolution to go funeral-hopping.
It’s each an amusing and disturbing idea. You can perceive why Morty can be interested by how these varied alternate households are grappling together with his dying, and how shortly he turns into hooked on the voyeuristic thrill of all of it. And as soon as he is inevitably caught within the act, you possibly can even see why he would develop connected to a household that really exhibits him love and appreciation. Even if the entire thing is extremely poisonous and harmful for all concerned.
And that is why this episode works so properly. Morty’s seemingly benign thirst for affection turns into a weight that drags everybody down into darkness. This alternate Jerry (Chris Parnell), already a borderline abusive father or mother beneath the nice facade, loses his grip on actuality when confronted with the prospect of reclaiming his son. Rick morphs from recovering addict with a satisfying dwelling life to a mirror picture of the drunken, spiraling mess we have come to know so properly. The Russian janitor turns into a canine with an impossibly lengthy neck. Everyone loses right here.
There’s an actual however very grim attraction in watching as Rick quickly throws all of it away, much less out of a need to assist Morty than the attract of changing into the person he might need been all these years in the past. Along the best way, this episode makes sparing however efficient use of Malin Ackerman’s character, one other reminder of what Rick is throwing away in his reckless pursuit of science. The finale hits on a few of the similar concepts as “Ricks Days, Seven Nights” by way of Rick escaping the vacancy of his life, solely to fall utterly again into that function, but it surely’s performed otherwise sufficient that it nonetheless feels novel right here.
Special credit score goes to Parnell right here. One of the neat issues about Jerry in the case of these alternate universe episodes is that the varied variations of him really feel distinct in a means that is not actually the case for the remainder of the Smith household. Part of that’s right down to the writing, after all, however do not low cost Parnell’s efficiency when he performs characters like this Jerry or the late Jerry Prime. It’s such a far cry from the standard unhappy sack model of the character, which we actually see in these couple of scenes with common Jerry singing about his silly fedora.
Episode 10 reaches a fittingly bleak finish, ensuing within the deaths of Rick, Jerry, and everybody else in Morty’s false household. None of it issues. Rick’s whole quest to construct a portal gun was a large failure. But, hey, it is okay. Another Rick property sale means Morty has a simple ticket dwelling. So it’s that the season wraps with a correct dose of existential angst, however this time coming from Morty fairly than his grandfather.
