Why Rick and Morty is the perfect show for our nihilistic age “Nobody exists on purpose, nobody belongs anywhere, everybody’s gonna die, ” 14-year-old Morty tells his sister on Cartoon Network’s Rick and Morty . “Come watch TV.” There’s something about a cartoon world that gives nihilism just the right conditions to flourish. Cartoon characters spend eternity wearing the same clothes, reciting the same catchphrases, and undertaking the same death- and physics-defying adventures. Their lives are pointless, but they don’t seem to know it. In this sense, Rick and Morty, whose two seasons on the air have earned it a dedicated cult following, is both a recognizable descendant of its animated forbears, and a horse of an entirely different color. Rick and Morty’s lives are pointless, and they do know it. Simply put, it’s a show that doesn’t succeed at mimicking real life in cartoon form as much as it does in showing us the cartoonishness of real life.

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