@vwfringe I'm finding my experience the opposite. The first 10 episodes are fresh and hilarious. After that it starts to feel a bit sitcom-y and predictable. Still good and worth watching but not nearly as fresh. I'll stick it out and see where it goes.
Shout by VWFringe the Pervy Sage from TVMuseBlockedParent2020-05-13T04:30:21Z
YouTubers giving this a quarantine re-watch (binge) arranged Zoom interviews with all the cast members and show creator Dan Harmon. I like Rick & Morty, so I watched the interview with Dan Harmon. He says (paraphrasing, hope I got this right)...he says the show doesn't start to get really good until episode ten...haha...he said that's about when he decided it wasn't really working to try to compete with, "The Office," and he thought it's gonna be cancelled, they're never gonna ask him back, so fuck it -- just kick out all the stops -- and he was more himself after that instead of trying so hard he was getting in his own way...! (He also said some very nice things about how certain actors and actresses really started to inhabit their characters at around the same time.)
So, that's what the other reviewers here are probably alluding to when they say it takes a while to get hooked.
I've only seen one episode and a couple of YouTube videos, but I can't wait (to get to episode ten, which may take me a week or two, hehe).