The premise of this episode is simple yet chaotic, something Rick and Morty has been praised in the past for specialising in. In this episode, Morty discovers that the "special spaghetti" that Rick has been serving is actually, in an insane twist, the flesh of an alien version of humanity that upon killings themselves, turn into spaghetti.
This concept is wacky, and fantastic, and immediately seats the viewer in for a "classic Rick and Morty adventure" of sorts.
Something special, my friends, about Rick and Morty is that since those classic adventures first happened, there has been a lot of character development. The show itself has taken up a more serious tone, given the characters more passion. And the writers have taken this and melded it with the premise so well that the outcome is an episode so shocking and heart-wrenchingly complex that I myself am stunned.
I cannot praise this episode enough. Please, whether you're a fan of Rick and Morty or not, please watch this episode. It is, without a doubt, one of the greatest things to come from this show and by far the best episode to have come from it as of writing this review.
This is not just a silly wacky episode. This is art. Something I did not expect upon starting the episode and something I still struggle to come to terms with and accept.