Rick And Morty: Season 6 Episode 2 Review
Rick and Morty is off to a nice start after a revealing season six premiere that’s now been followed up by the series’ “Die Hard” episode that pays homage to John McClane’s feat, while also exploring a bit more of the grandpa and grandson duo’s relationship.
Indeed, showrunners Justin Roiland and Dan Harmon had hyped the Die Hard parody as a perfect example of how Rick and Morty’s creative process often unfolds, with this entry lining up with the show’s self-contained style, rather than the pure story bits delivered last week. Nevertheless, it’s safe to say “Rick: A Mort Well Lived” would do McClane proud as the original movie’s funniest moments are perfectly thrown into the Blips and Chitz arcade.
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The idea of alternate Ricks and Mortys is definitely not new to fans of the show, especially once their nature got further development in last season's finale, however, here the concept gets a new spin put into it as viewers enter a universe where everyone talks like Morty. The twist is that none of this is real, it’s actually all an extension of the season two arcade game, “Roy: A Life Well Lived”, where Morty is now stuck due to a power outage that allowed terrorists to take over the precinct.
That’s about as far as it goes in terms of setup, with Rick assuming the role of Roy to try to rescue Morty’s fractured psyche from the game, while Summer goes off to do her best try at pulling off a Die Hard, without ever seeing Die Hard. Now, suffice to say, the so-called Christmas movie is an absolute action classic and Summer really seems like the perfect hero to step into John McClane’s shoes against a group of alien villains led by a Gruber-like terrorist who’s just
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