From the voice half of Rick and Morty comes a new cartoon mocking pop culture through alien eyes. What makes Solar even funnier is that everyone on earth they encounter could care less about them (Korvo, Terry, Yumylack and Jesse) being aliens. It’s quite opposite, humanity’s ability to readily hate occurs more often, especially to Yumylack and Jesse at their high school.
Is it funny though? Absolutely but it isn’t Rick and Morty thankfully. Terry may be the smart one yet he’s no Rick; despite wanting to leave Earth, he still craves the same level of acceptance and pleasure from Earth inventions as Terry. With this being on Hulu, Solar can go a little further for it’s uncensored and they don’t avoid taking potshots at name brands: KFC, Dave & Busters, Pepsi, etc.
Meanwhile, there’s a constant C story happening in the wall of Yumylack and Jesse’s bedroom which happens to be a giant terrarium. Whenever somebody pisses Yumylack off, they get shot with his shrink ray and put into the wall. Within this closed environment, the shrunken humans have made their own civilization with an economy based upon the candy Jesse provides.
If you love Rick and Morty and other irreverent animated humor, you’ll love Solar Opposites. I’m glad they continue to make jabs at religion, if you watch all eight episodes, I’m confident you’ll know which joke was my favorite. The best comparison would be this, if you love The Simpsons, then you’re sure to love Futurama and Disenchantment. Same goes for Rick and Morty with Solar Opposites.
Hulu only has eight episodes making up the first season. Eight more will be appearing but there is no ETA given.
Killing Them Softly
Killing was a rather mediocre Crime movie set around the final days of the 2008 election. There’s so much yapping, you’d think David Mamet wrote this but it’s loosely based upon a book I’m not going to look up.
Brad Pitt stars as a free agent hitman hired by the Boston mafia to find out who robbed an illegal poker game. It doesn’t take him very long to discover who the bumbling thieves were but the person behind the operation is someone he knows, so this needs to contracted out. Meanwhile, to send a message, Ray Liotta also has to be whacked to send a message because he had his own game robbed a few years back, never mind his innocence over this matter.
Is it violent? At times. Was it entertaining? No, I found it rather boring and this may have been an ego project for Pitt to show off his acting chops. Killing is more realistic like Goodfellas in how organized crime isn’t glamorous, most of the money making is done through mundane things but there was too much high-brow jibber jabber trying to make a point about America.