The Vindicators, as an organization, feel like a writers’ room dream of random-yet-viable superheroes: Supernova, a celestial being with the power of a collapsing star, crocodile-robot hybrid Crocubot, ghost train summoner Alan Rails, a blob of a Million Ants and a Christian Slater-voiced offbrand Star-Lord as the human leader with swagger and a jetpack. Read More: ‘Rick and Morty’ Review: ‘Pickle Rick’ Turns the Simplest Premise Into a Spectacular Action Animation Showcase Even if some of it feels a little familiar, at least it’s sending things in a different direction. It’s no surprise that this show would take a premise with unlimited possibilities and trap this supersquad in a simplistic “Saw”-bstacle course. What starts as a means for a “Guardians of the Galaxy”-style adventure against a looming foe gets the “Rick and Morty” treatment by putting that formula in reverse. “Vindicators 3: The Return of Worldender” is an episode as deceptive as its title. Dogs taking over the world, parasites taking over happy memories, and a school dance becoming the platform for an army of Cronenbergs all came from a simple premise warped so fully that the result was twisted, unrecognizable bliss. At its best, “ Rick and Morty” is a show that’s been able to take the basic, ordinary parts of human life and spin them into grand, misshapen sci-fi horrors.
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