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Still, seeing Marionette Beth in charge of the underground resistance and Marionette Jerry becoming a breeding ground for a colony of beavers in that truly deranged extended tag are ideal ways to give the usual Rick/Morty dynamic a needed break. Maybe it’s weird to say that every Smith family member gets a chance to shine, given that one of Summer’s spotlight moments is her slowly plunging a dagger into the chest of someone who looks just like her. It’s no coincidence that one of the show’s best episodes in years keeps the entire family together. If anything, Rick pausing to explain his own “Highlander” joke is the closest the episode comes to getting sidetracked, but it’s also being delivered in front of a whiteboard illustration that anyone can choose to unpack instead.
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In line with the rest of the episodes, the quick “Westworld”/“Ex Machina” two-fer becomes a way to differentiate between families while also calling out Rick’s referential tendencies. There’s no overextended Michael Keaton riff when the concept of degenerating “copy of copies” decoys comes up. There’s also admirable restraint in “Mortyplicity” by not going after the low-hanging pop-culture clone story fruit. (It wouldn’t be a top-tier “Rick and Morty” without a heaping helping of nihilism.) Even in those repetitions, there’s a constant escalation happening that gives this episode the perfect kind of forward momentum.
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That the answer is “It doesn’t matter because they’re all about to get neutralized by an interdimensional molecule zapper” certainly helps. “Mortyplicity” is very careful to only play the “Wait, which one’s which?” card in calculated situations.
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They may have nearly identical personalities, but episode writer Albro Lundy sets up an attacker/defender dynamic in each of these smaller battles that gives purpose to each new wrinkle. When sets of families are firing lasers at each other across the Smith house (or a version of one, anyway), it’s easy to identify one as the Living Room set and the other as the Kitchen set. For as much chaos as there is in this Mandelbrot set of fractal clone warfare, it’s all outlined in a way that’s surprisingly clear to follow despite the overall story going into overdrive. This doesn’t necessarily mean “tear through enough plot and branching timelines in a way that will have Reddit timeline constructors going berserk for weeks,” but here that’s more of a natural byproduct than a driving goal. Like last week’s season premiere, “Mortyplicity” is proof that the show is at its most enjoyable when it’s paced just right. Before long, fake Smiths start mutating to the point where they all realize they’re the very thing they’re trying to hunt.
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New Movies: Release Calendar for November 24, Plus Where to Watch the Latest FilmsĪs these encounters start to complicate themselves, with Decoys making their own Decoys, that chain starts to branch out in the wildest of ways, with links of every size and shape traveling in every direction. 'Power Book II: Ghost' Review: The First Spinoff of the Kitschy Crime Franchise Aspires to Nothing 'Joe Pera Talks with You' Is Here to Help the World Make a Little More Sense This attack sets off a wave of nested showdowns between Decoy Families (those that Rick has placed in strategic locations) and the families who assume that they’re the ones at the top of the chain, responsible for eliminating all the fake versions of them below. As does happen sometimes, the intruders wipe out the breakfasting quintet before they can even get out of the room. “Mortyplicity” starts with (what seems like) a standard Smith dining room volley of ambitious plans, family insults, and unexpected visitors. It’s the best the show has been in a while. All of it adds up to an exquisite execution of a deceptively simple idea. In this week’s “Mortyplicity,” all that havoc is weirdly both confined to a single idea and sprawling so wide that Rick has to take a quick breather to draw up a diagram and explain. So it’s equal parts surprising and exciting when the show manages to craft itself an episode-spanning problem that’s self-contained. When trouble’s brewing, a leap to an alternate reality is almost certainly around the corner. “The multiverse” is a concept linked with “Rick and Morty” more closely than maybe any other show on TV.