I agree. Much like Rick’s behavior at the end of the previous “Vat of Acid” episode I thought Summer’s verbal assault of her father here was just too dark and mean spirited even by the standards of the show. Thankfully the episode sort of settled down after that and didn’t continue in that tone as opposed to “Vat of…

Its more like Rick has become more and more of a petty, thin-skinned, self-righteous asshole thats willing to destroy and kill just to prove that and its influencing Beth and Summer. Makes me wonder if this is intentional to make him unattractive to the toxic fandom that worships him. It would be naive of them to…

Absolutely agreed.

I had pretty much the same feelings as everyone else.

Honestly, I kept thinking about one of Original Recipe Star Trek’s petty “space God” episodes, especially “Who Mourns for Adonis?”, in which an alien believes itself to be Apollo:

I couldn’t even laugh at it. It flashed me back to middle school and being too timid to speak up for a learning disabled kid who was getting torn down by the cool kids. That kid left the bus crying and didn’t come back to school for two weeks. It was the shittiest I’ve ever felt as a human being.

Sure, I could potentially see that. But I still don’t think it worked. At least it didn’t for me! :)

That was brutal and not particularly witty. I think they wanted us to feel bad for Jerry, maybe to justify him becoming the cult leader of the improductives and starting a war against his own spouse latter in the episode.

I wouldn’t even give this episode a B.
I just kept waiting for some sort of punchline to land. The show is usually more self aware than this and I thought there’d be a twist on the hoary old trope of discordant family vacation. Like, making Summer and Morty one-dimensionaly obsessed with drugs and vidogames, out of…

I thought too. A sky god that inseminate Gaïa? Check. That gives birth to a bunch of weird proto-humans? Check. He is a shitty dad and kind of hates them? Check check check.

I said “Jesus Christ, Summer” out loud literally 2 seconds before Morty did so they knew exactly what they were doing.

It was sweet of Beth to acknowledge that, unlike her deadbeat dad, Jerry was there for her at the end when she needed him.

It feels like these past couple episodes have become much more mean-spirited than usual. 

I know that Jerry being pathetic is a running joke throughout the show, but Summer’s line to him at the campfire went so far that it wasn’t even funny in a “ha ha ha, they’re being overly cruel to Jerry” kind of way. Sure, Morty lampshades it right afterwards, and the equilibrium is (sort of) restored at the end, but…

I found “Knives out” way more plausible about the faults of liberals and how they actually manifest.

I don’t think Angela getting the powers of a god are an unambiguously positive development. You’re supposed to be pondering what would happen if someone like Angela - who as you pointed out has been shown to make some very ethically dubious choices - was given that kind of power.

Still vastly more believable than left-wing elites using guns and hunting for sport when most of them look down at both activities as being fundamentally beneath them.

So, you’re talking about the elites period. They know no party or ideology other than that the country should serve them. Biden is hardly liberal or the elite. He’s small fish.  

The black officer murdered by a white supremacist because he needed to get bureaucratic authority to use his weapon. I thought it was a great scene but it really pissed off some people, they thought Lindelof was advocating for less gun control for police. Good ole’ recognitions was not happy.

If anyone was getting trolled by Tulsa PD’s very specific ruleset, it was your average conservative who believes that government services are a joke compared to a righteous individual who’s willing to do “what it takes”.