Rick and Morty season 6 promises more multiverses after blowing one up

polygon.com:

How do you pin down Rick and Morty? No, reader, I’m asking you, specifically — when you think of the breakout Adult Swim animated comedy, what comes to mind? There’s probably the Szechuan sauce and its associated debacle; Pickle Rick; the wacky multiverse hijinks the show was doing before it was cool; maybe a stray, inescapable Justin Roiland voice that plays on loop.

In my own experience, Rick and Morty is like working out: The longer it’s been since I’ve engaged with it, the bigger the mental block is to going back. I genuinely like them both, but I don’t really want to listen to anyone who’s made either their whole life. Ultimately, they always feel good to return to, even (or maybe, especially) when it feels hard; there’s more depth to it than just the routine, everyday stuff, but that everyday stuff also gets the job done.

Part of that is the fact Rick and Morty dissects its sci-fi influences at a breakneck pace, running through whole concepts in a 22-minute run time. Then there are the many layers of this particular onion: Almost as belabored as Pickle Rick is the fact a lot of people are missing the point of Pickle Rick. And as we saw in season 5, Rick C-137 (the show’s main Rick) has a much darker backstory than the Rick of the timeline he finds himself in. C-137 Rick watched his wife get killed by another Rick, and — after some time spent trying to hunt him down, killing various Ricks, and generally getting fucked up — eventually crash-landed himself into a timeline where a Rick had abandoned his grown-up daughter, settling in bitterly.

It was a sort of confirmation of the story Rick told his Galactic Federation captors in season 3 — a slow reveal on a man whose true dark depths have been mostly hinted at