{"id":476430,"date":"2026-06-14T05:57:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T05:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/476430\/"},"modified":"2026-06-14T05:57:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T05:57:08","slug":"first-look-at-rick-and-morty-spin-off-president-curtis-raises-more-questions-than-it-answers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/476430\/","title":{"rendered":"First look at Rick And Morty spin-off President Curtis raises more questions than it answers"},"content":{"rendered":"

We\u2019re currently a month out from the debut of President Curtis<\/a>, the somewhat unlikely\u00a0Rick And Morty\u00a0spin-off that asks what Keith David\u2019s recurring character gets up to when he\u2019s not having super-science dick-measuring contests with alcoholic malcontent Rick Sanchez. Which means it\u2019s probably\u00a0time for the show to start trying to explain what the hell it actually is (besides a place to hear more of David\u2019s smooth bass voice saying ridiculous things), not that you\u2019d necessarily know that from the first couple of clips of it that have now been released online.<\/p>\n

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The most recent one, for instance\u2014posted as a \u201cfirst look\u201d to Adult Swim\u2019s YouTube this weekend\u2014doesn\u2019t feature the Curtis character at all, and instead is focused on what seems like a Secret Service agent voiced by Jim Rash. (Alongside another, also unnamed character played by Stephanie Beatriz; both of them were featured in the initial images for the show that were rolled out at Comic-Con last year.) The actual joke featured in the teaser is fine, for a fairly Rick And Morty vein\u00a0of \u201cheroes bored by an absurd scenario\u201d comedy\u2014Rash is unsurprisingly pretty good at it\u2014but the tease as a whole doesn\u2019t do much to give an understanding of the actual premise of the series. (Although it did give a lot\u00a0of pissed-off fans of Netflix\u2019s canceled\u00a0Inside Job<\/a>, which the show at least superficially resembles, a chance to vent in the comments.)<\/p>\n

Admittedly, Adult Swim did roll out a\u00a0slightly\u00a0more descriptive video about two weeks back, featuring\u00a0Rick And Morty\u2018s Ian Cardoni and Harry Belden as they toss an \u201cInterdimensional Cable\u201d-style effort at describing their new sister series. (Which is to say, they argue about whether it\u2019s more of an X-Files\u00a0thing or a\u00a0National Treasure\u2014but the suggestion is that it\u2019ll be some manner of less high-concept sci-fi, more Earth-based procedural than their own show, which is currently airing its ninth season.) The upshot is that we still don\u2019t really know what the hook for the show\u2014created by Dan Harmon and Rick And Morty\u00a0writer and producer Justin Siciliano\u2014is, and might just have to wait until the series debuts in July to find out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We\u2019re currently a month out from the debut of President Curtis, the somewhat unlikely\u00a0Rick And Morty\u00a0spin-off that asks…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":476431,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[156,111,139,69,437],"class_list":["post-476430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=476430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476430\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/476431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}