![]() ![]() I'm pretty sure I could write a dissertation on it at this point, highlighting all of the wild, mind-blowing layers within each 20-minute story. ![]() I've seen every episode of Rick And Morty at least five times. ![]() There is little doubt in my mind that authors and screenwriters and comedians will study Harmon’s process in the distant future, when we're all Cronenberg creatures. It's this far-reaching awareness of collective literary and societal memory that makes Harmon's work feel so pertinent to contemporary storytelling Rick And Morty isn’t too different from Shakespeare’s plays, which essentially satirized the Western canon and the very idea of the archetype, like Harmon and Roiland do now, within their show's freaky, boundless universe. The process is a riff on the Hero's Journey, or the Monolyth, a narrative pattern found in canonical myths and epics.
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