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Binged the show for the first time a few weeks ago. It's a much better, funnier, and more thoughtful show than its online fanbase led me to expect. It's not a GOOD show, exactly, but it's decent for what it is.
But I feel the show wearing thin in spots. Rick can't change, can't show weakness, can't ever face real consequences because then the show itself would change. He's smarter than everyone, including Q-esque godlike beings. But Morty has come to the realization that Rick is an irredeemable asshole multiple times now. And while Morty has changed, he can't reject Rick fully because then the show would change. They've got to do something to keep this act from getting stale but they also can't do anything.
Similar to House M.D. in some ways, but I'm struck by how that show's various answers to it's unchanging asshole protagonist (his whole staff leaves, he loses both of the best relationships he's ever had, the only person he really cares about hates him for much of the last run of the show, he gets shot, and at least once he does change and isn't such an asshole anymore (but it can't stick)) wouldn't work for Rick & Morty.