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This RICK AND MORTY review contains spoilers.
Rick and Morty Season 6 Episode 7
With a lead character who regularly makes clear his awareness he’s on a TV show, Rick and Morty is always plenty meta, but it’s not even a minute into “Full Meta Jackrick” that things get even more meta than usual. And if this hyper-meta-ness feels familiar, it’s because this episode is a sequel to the other most meta episode ever, season four’s “Never Ricking Morty.” Yes, this time the Story Lord from the Story Train has made it out of the fictional world and into the metaverse—oh, uh, wait, we can’t call it that—the meta-reality.
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Like the Story Train episode before it, this means a story about stories, replete with cutaways to other story concepts, literal manifestations of storytelling devices, and loads of overt references to creator Dan Harmon’s writing process. If you thought “Never Ricking Morty” was brilliant, you’ll probably feel similarly about “Full Meta Jackrick”. However, if you found the events on the Story Train exhausting and not very funny, well, come along with me!
Perhaps we’re hitting critical mass on stories that are self-aware they’re stories. People seem to be getting sick of that brand of dialogue that’s seemingly become the norm for Marvel movies, Netflix shows, and even the Star Wars universe, where characters comment on the absurdity of their situation, much like they’re audiences to their own conflict. (This is more commonly known as the Whedonization of media.)
