Adult Swim Needs To Embrace Rick & Morty's Most Controversial Release
While Adult Swim opted not to follow Justin Roiland’s advice in season 5, Rick & Morty season 6’s release should use the creator’s controversial proposed release schedule for the next outing of the cult hit. The changing landscape of entertainment production has resulted in the once-reliable institution of television seasons being irretrievably changed in recent years, with everything from episode runtimes to the pacing of releases being altered year on year. Netflix’s decision to release some shows on a week-by-week basis and drop other series in their entirety in one day has resulted in many streaming services following suit.
Meanwhile, the creation of streaming spinoffs means shows like How I Met Your Father and the CSI revival CSI: Vegas have far shorter debut seasons than their franchise predecessors. With all of these changes occurring at once, it is understandable thatRick & Morty co-creator Justin Roiland suggested a highly unusual release schedule for season 5 of the cult sci-fi comedy series. Although Adult Swim didn’t end up taking Roiland’s advice at the time, recent events made the idea seem even more useful and clever than before.Rick & Morty has unusually long breaks between its seasons, meaning an atypical release schedule could fit the series well.
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Roiland argued in interviews throughout the making of Rick & Morty season 5 that the series should release one episode per month, as opposed to one per week, in order to lengthen the amount of time that Rick & Morty spent on the air. With such long breaks between seasons and such an ambitious shift in the show’s story, Rick & Morty season 6 could be even better suited to institute this change. Rick
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