I feel that the first season was pretty neutral, maybe kind of left-leaning aesthetically, but it also aired way back in 2013.

The newer episodes are dropping more fashy lines. The Unity episode where Rick frames some minority alien group for something, and then says "sheesh, don't blame me it's the police who are racist"

Or the "future crystals" where rick keeps getting routed through fascist alternate universes with nazi morties, only to end up with a wasp rick where the entire wasp Smith family eats the (Black) math teacher larvae. Not exactly subtle.

The whole premise of the show also became even more over of a power fantasy in seasons 3/4.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMILvY_FJj8

  • nom_nom_chompsky [any]
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    4 years ago

    Yeah, the "no politics, just classic fun adventure" mortysounds exactly like the gamergate crowd, and him getting beaten up is portrayed as the correct thing

    • grey_wolf_whenever [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Yeah, thats what I took from that to. Rick literally killing the gamergate crowd, its not exactly high brow but it wouldnt be the first time CHUDs missed that an artist wasnt exactly endorsing them.