{"id":1154,"date":"2026-07-25T16:41:30","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T16:41:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/relocationacrossamerica.com\/?p=1154"},"modified":"2026-07-25T16:41:30","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T16:41:30","slug":"president-curtis-is-a-rick-and-morty-spinoff-to-believe-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/relocationacrossamerica.com\/?p=1154","title":{"rendered":"\u201cPresident Curtis\u201d is a \u201cRick and Morty\u201d spinoff to believe in"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Years ago on \u201cRick and Morty,\u201d President Andre Curtis fumed that he can\u2019t coexist with Rick Sanchez, a living god who won\u2019t submit to his will. Giving the man his own spinoff is one way to fix that.<\/p>\n

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In \u201cPresident Curtis,\u201d America\u2019s POTUS is an egomaniacal \u201980s-vintage superhero who treats the White House as his lair. That\u2019s not too far removed from the real commander-in-chief\u2019s mindset, but any suspicions that co-creators Dan Harmon and James Siciliano are parodying Trump 2.0 are off base. The show\u2019s only satirical tool is Curtis himself, a myopic blowhard (voiced by the charismatic Keith David) who, to paraphrase one skeptic, uses taxpayer dollars to play Batman. Flanked by his cyborg chief of staff (Stephanie Beatriz) and a half-leprechaun special agent (Jim Rash), Curtis would rather police America than govern it. (To that end, the show\u2019s \u201cHill Street Blues\u201d-adjacent theme is another genius grace note.)<\/p>\n

But \u201cPresident Curtis\u201d is only as strong as the viewer\u2019s affection for \u201cRick and Morty.\u201d If you can\u2019t get enough of that show\u2019s visual irony, metatextual references and winking at entertainment tropes, here\u2019s 10 more episodes of the same feeling, only Earthbound. Not that I\u2019m complaining. There\u2019s something about David, the mellifluous voice of Ken Burns\u2019 America, committing to every expletive-laced punchline that makes me absolutely giddy.<\/p>\n

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Sealing this TV candidate\u2019s victory are all the ways Curtis shows himself to be more effective and dangerous than real politicians, in that he gets the job done. As he brags about singlehandedly ending Paul Bunyan, \u201cI\u2019ll say this much to anyone who thinks they\u2019re taller than the law: \u2018Timber, b***h.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cPresident Curtis\u201d premieres at 11:30 p.m. Sunday, July 26 on Adult Swim and streams the next day on HBO Max.<\/em><\/p>\n

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