The wait is over, Szechuan sauce fans! It’s been a long year since we last saw Rick and Morty, but the bitter super-scientist and his infinitely put-upon grandson have crashed into our reality once more. Season six is now playing exclusively on Netflix, with each new episode dropping weekly.
Created by Justin Roiland (Solar Opposites) and Dan Harmon (Community), Rick and Morty is unarguably the cult adult animated series of the current moment. Its (famously toxic) fans are legion, and the wait for this latest season has been agonising. But not as agonising as having to spend time with Jerry, amirite?
Which is why we see Rick callously using his son-in-law as a human shield in the season six trailer, a chaotic concoction soundtracked by the mighty Black Sabbath.
Existential questions raised by the trailer include the difference between carking it and departing reality. Morty asks “are we about to die?” To which Morty responds: “No, we’re about to vanish from this reality.” The exact difference presumably involves more zany adventures taking place far off into the cosmos.
Other important topics evidently explored in the new series include how to deal with alien terrorists, the need to see Die Hard, and the kind of pretty visuals that can be achieved with an airborne car crash lands into a gasoline factory.
Let us hope that the philosophical essence of the new series matches to the following inspirational words Morty says in one episode: “Nobody exists on purpose, nobody belongs anywhere, everybody’s going to die. Come watch TV.” And indeed, let us all watch the teev: we’ll be glued to our screens every Monday for the next 10 weeks.
