That's really the point of Rick and Morty, the idea that at the end of the day, all of this is in service of a joke that almost goes too far. It is surreal, and it is brilliant,
What makes Rick & Morty worth coming back to and waiting for isn't just the wildly bizarre situations its titular characters find themselves... It's the way the series is increasingly aware the cost of its madness on all the characters involved.
Rick And Morty is a show that encourages -- no, demands -- smart viewers. It's a show that routinely breaks the fourth wall, that throws in jokes in a half second that take hours to parse.
Could we be witnessing Rick and Morty's Darkest Timeline? Sure, we care for our titular adventurers, but their travels are beginning to bring out the worst in them, particularly Morty.
