Season six has been solid if perhaps unspectacular so far for me, and this third episode was probably the best of the run so far, but still away beneath the quality the show has hit in it's prime.
It's Thanksgiving and Space Beth (Sarah Chalke) is visiting. She and Beth (Sarah Chalke) begin an inevitable, narcissistic love affair which Summer (Spencer Grammer) and Morty (Justin Roiland) quickly become aware of. They try to mentally distract themselves by playing Morty's new games console, which offers unprecedented levels of realism.
A rare episode based almost entirely at the house, the structure of the show is slightly odd too with the traditional "A" and "B" format swapped for essentially one story, with the games console business feeding back into it. So, it's not really feeding the wider mythology, or taking us on an extraordinary adventure, or (thankfully) another movie parody - it's a character story, dealing perhaps with why this Beth chooses to stay with the family. It's funnier than the previous couple too, most of which comes from the games console storyline and what the oft repeated boast when a new console comes out "heightening the realism" could actually mean.
Again, good rather than truly great.