Rick and Morty closes out its ninth season with an episode that leans hard into the show’s favorite mix of absurd sci-fi ideas and emotional collapse. According to the review, “Field of Dreams” is not the season’s single strongest chapter, but it lands close behind “Ricks Days, Seven Nights” by pairing big concepts with a deeply cynical streak.
The finale begins with the idea of a Rick estate sale after Rick’s death, which brings in alternate versions of the character eager to pick over what he left behind. That setup mostly serves as a launch point for Morty’s real obsession: sneaking into different funerals to see how other versions of his family respond to his death. What starts as curiosity quickly becomes a destructive fixation, especially once he finds a family that actually seems to care about him.
According to the recap, that emotional need is exactly what makes the episode so effective. Morty’s desire for affection pulls everyone into a spiral, with one alternate Jerry becoming increasingly unstable, Rick sliding back into the self-destructive version of himself, and the whole false family collapsing around them. The review also notes that Chris Parnell’s performance gives the alternate Jerry a sharper identity than many of the show’s other multiverse variants, helping the character stand out in a season that has already spent a lot of time with alternate realities.
By the end, the episode leaves almost everyone dead and undercuts any sense that Rick’s portal-gun ambitions meant anything at all. Still, the recap says the season finale works because it turns that failure into a final burst of dark humor and existential dread. With another Rick estate sale offering Morty a way home, the season ends not with triumph, but with the same hollow feeling the series has been building toward all along.
Source: ign.com
