Despite on of the more eclectic casts that the show has ever had, particularly from an English perspective, episode nine of this season of "Rick and Morty" couldn't quite maintain the comedy.
Against Rick's (Justin Roiland) advice, Morty (Justin Roiland) accepts a sacred sword from one of the Knights of the Sun. Morty is happy for some adventure until he is told the price for swearing his oath by a fellow Knight (David Mitchell). Trying to extricate himself he accidentally becomes the new king and decides to disband the order. Unfortunately, the Knights of the Sun actually do an important job, keeping the alien races of the Solar system in order and without them war soon breaks out.
So, somebody over at "Rick and Morty" really likes "Peep Show" then. David Mitchell, Robert Webb and Matt King all providing voices in this one. They're joined by Daniel Radcliffe as the forth Knight, as well as a big role for Jack Black as the Viscount of Venus, one whose ambition grows when he's out from under the Knights of the Sun. No real role for the rest of the family this week, nor an A/B story structure. It's all on Rick and Morty's adventure and the fun that can be mined from that.
For me, it started off really funny, but fell away as the episode ran on. Never to a point I thought it was less than good, but not as good as it would have been if it maintained the hit rate of it's opening scenes.
Against Rick's (Justin Roiland) advice, Morty (Justin Roiland) accepts a sacred sword from one of the Knights of the Sun. Morty is happy for some adventure until he is told the price for swearing his oath by a fellow Knight (David Mitchell). Trying to extricate himself he accidentally becomes the new king and decides to disband the order. Unfortunately, the Knights of the Sun actually do an important job, keeping the alien races of the Solar system in order and without them war soon breaks out.
So, somebody over at "Rick and Morty" really likes "Peep Show" then. David Mitchell, Robert Webb and Matt King all providing voices in this one. They're joined by Daniel Radcliffe as the forth Knight, as well as a big role for Jack Black as the Viscount of Venus, one whose ambition grows when he's out from under the Knights of the Sun. No real role for the rest of the family this week, nor an A/B story structure. It's all on Rick and Morty's adventure and the fun that can be mined from that.
For me, it started off really funny, but fell away as the episode ran on. Never to a point I thought it was less than good, but not as good as it would have been if it maintained the hit rate of it's opening scenes.