Back after a brief Hiatus, and back with a bang, episode seven season six of "Rick And Morty" was and decent, difficult, smart return.
Rick (Justin Roiland) and Morty (Justin Roiland) find themselves dragged through the fourth wall, literally, into a battle with the returning Storylord (Paul Giamatti). They fight through the nature of the show itself, and against evil storytelling tropes before an ally, Joseph Campbell (Dan Harmon) sets them back on track.
It's actually a bit difficult to describe the story of this one, as it's a bit of a whirlwind of characters appearing and disappearing. What it is though, is clever. I've said in other reviews for the show that I like it when "R&M" tell a story that only they can do, and this is certainly one of those. From the very first moment, and a "Previously on Rick and Morty" that starts to unravel pretty quickly, through amended credits and right through to the post episode tag, there's very few shows that could make an episode as Meta as this, and even fewer that would take the time to take shots at the complaints of the audience at the same time.
Maybe though, that manic storytelling does come at the expense of some genuine humour, with the Self-referential six feeling very much like a first draft idea that should have been dropped when it didn't quite pan out to enough characters (Continuity errors aren't storytelling devices) particularly when they shift to being unused in the second half of the episode. I'd also say that, despite that uniqueness of the premise, in delivery it felt like several other episodes, even ones from this season (the fortune cookie episode, in particular).
I'd still say that overall I enjoyed it though and it's exactly the sort of clever storytelling I'm looking for from the show, I'd just like it to be a tiny bit funnier though.