Ranking Every Episode of “Rick and Morty” Season Four From Worst To Best
Can art be judged objectively? Across the centuries, philosophers from Plato to Immanuel Kant, Arthur Schopenhauer and David Hume have proposed ways in which you can. Personally, though, I think the American poet Edgar Allen Poe laid out the most convincing argument of all when he called economy a king, and said an artwork could be considered great if and only if each of its elements, no matter how great or small, had a clearly designated purpose. This method, though by no means definitive, works nicely when analyzing stories, and so I’ll be applying it to find out which season four’s episodes were good, and which were not.
In my opinion, and maybe Poe’s as well, Promortyus is not only the worst of the season, but the entire series. If Tales from the Citadel is the Holy Grail—that is, an episode in which every sequence, every scene, every line of dialogue propels the story forward with the power of a jet engine—Promortyus is a twenty-minute crash consisting of underdeveloped concepts and throwaway jokes, which include several bits of plotless violence, and an ending in which the main characters believe they’re about to give birth to alien babies when, in reality, they just had to take a shit, which, symbolically speaking, sums how I felt about this episode, too.
"There are also other characters that come and go (also owned by the Warner Bros. Discovery conglomerate media company)."
Huh. Is that just referring to other characters from the show itself, or is this implying that the new season is going to have cameos from other WBD IPs