Rock and Morty - Seasons 1-3 (2013-2015-2017)

	Also Known As: -
	Year of first release: 2013
	Creators: Dan Harmon, Justin Roiland
	Actors (voices): Justin Roiland, Chris Parnell, Spencer Grammer
	Country: USA
	Genre: Animation, SF, Black Comedy
	Conditions of visioning: December 2018, VOD, 10" tablet.
Synopsis: Teenager Morty is constantly embarked on crazy Sci-Fi adventures by his genius alcoholic grand-pa Rick, and it is not easy on their family under which roof they live.
Review: I was about to review this series season by season and my original ratings were more 6/10, but as since then I have watched the whole three first seasons at least three times, I must admit that I love it all. I am always looking for animated TV-series for adults and Rick and Morty seems to be the pinnacle of them all: the SF futuristic aspect of Final Space and Futurama, the geek side of the latter, the borderline graphic violence, gore and humor between Family Guy and Paradise PD, some Fantasy like in Disenchantment...  When watching the kind of pilot to the series: The Real Animated Adventures of Doc and Mharti, you get that it is strongly inspired by the successful duo from Back to the Future. Fortunately the concept (and character names) have evolved on the way to the first season, although the voices and main traits of the characters are recognizable. There are many things that I love about the series, starting with the characters: not only the two main ones but also their family (Jerry, Summer and Beth). Even when facing out-of-this-world adventures, they are still grounded to reactions we can identify with: love, drama, shame, divorce, separation, sickness, loneliness... Of course I love the wild adventures, which I thought after watching the first episode would remain bounded to some reality close to ours, but I was wrong and it gets very quickly very wild. The animation is also pretty nice, I was for a long time baffled by the how the character's lips do the F's and V's and how they express puzzlement or surprise like on the picture below. And the animation is very detailed as well, there are tons of details in the background, so much that the YouTube channel NewRockstars did breakdowns of the Season 3 episodes and more stuff. Knowing the series so well I can even attempt at listing my favorite episodes: S1E2: Lawnmower Dog, includes many references, to Inception among others S1E3: Anatomy Park, reference to Jurassic Park and to the 1966 Fantastic Voyage S1E10: Close Rick-counters of the Rick Kind, an introduction to the Citadel of Ricks S2E1: A Rickle in Time, a mind-twisting season start S3E1: The Rickshank Rickdemption, where Rick unleashes his full genius S3E3: Pickle Rick, for the crazy concept S3E6: Rest and Ricklaxation, for the story S3E7: The Ricklantis Mixup, diving deeper into the Citadel of Ricks S3E10: The Rickchurian Mortydate, for the battle against the President of the USA and my least favorites, even though I could also watch them with pleasure because of some good part or another: S1E5: Meeseeks and Destroy, because the voice of the Meeseeks gets annoying S1E7: Raising Gazorpazorp, a fatherhood story that should talk to me but doesn't S2E4: Total Rickall, maybe because it all takes place in the Smiths residence S2E9: Look Who's Purging Now, referencing the movie The Purge, but maybe not original enough S3E2: Rickmancing the Stone, referencing Mad Max but not getting many laughs from me Really, the only bad thing about this series is that there is so much waiting time between the seasons. I hope for one in 2019.
Rating: 8 /10