Review: Krapopolis “John Fate Comes a-Knockin’”
Overview
Deliria’s clairvoyant ex comes to town and gives the family some bad news.
Our Take
Krapopolis season two returns in 2025 and they do so with an episode that has by far the most Rick and Morty premise yet. Wallace Shawn guest stars as John Fate who threatens to reveal how Shlub is going to die leading the rest of the cast to do everything they can to make that not happen. John clearly wants to get back with his ex-gf Deliria and will do what he must to do just that, fortunately, Delira doesn’t fuck around.
SNL50 fans will be happy to learn that this week’s episode guest stars Ana Gasteyer and Laraine Newman which doesn’t really help out the Heather Campbell-written script in the dialogue department because we’re not really given a super over-the-top funny episode. To be fair, most episodes of Krapopolis are mostly on the dull side, but at least this week’s episode featured a rather endearing plot that helped carry the show.
Wallace Shawn makes for a fantastic adversary, but we knew that already when Rex was slightly more evil in the first Toy Story movie and when he voiced Evil Stewie. As it stands, Krapopolis serves a better-than-normal episode buoyed by a strong premise, even if there isn’t a joke to be found in the FOX-produced animated comedy.
There's got to be some kind of twist that's going to happen with this. I don't know if they're setting up an April Fool's joke now or what's going on, but it seems too strange that they'd suddenly reverse on doing a fourth and fifth season after the show was already renewed and they were even just talking about working on those seasons like a couple months ago or something. Or maybe the two episodes yet to release will secretly somehow each be like a "season" in themselves?