Season 8 - 10 episodes (2025)
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Created by: Justin Roiland and Dan Harmon
Starring: Justin Roiland, Chris Parnell, Spencer Grammer, Sarah Chalke
Rated: TV-MA
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Plot
An animated series that follows the exploits of drunk, careless, super
scientist Rick and his dimwitted, anxious grandson Morty as they
traverse multiple universes.
Verdict
It's a new season of Rick and Morty and for that alone I look
forward to it, but there were no standout episodes. It has a few
episodes I like but nothing I'd recommend as a must see. This still has plenty of references, but it doesn't seem as clever or witty as it used to be. I don't want to say the show is coasting, but I'll watch season nine because of the early seasons, not because of this one.
It depends.
Review
Season nine is currently in production with ten and eleven already renewed. The series plans for twelve seasons total.
I enjoy the show, but it's not as clever as it used to be. The show
reached absurd heights, and now it feels content to coast on the goodwill created. I'll keep watching the show no matter what, but now
that's due to nostalgia for what the show was. The reasons I liked and watched this are a shadow. It isn't
as sharp or as witty. Maybe the first few seasons raised the bar too
high, but I think the show has lost a step. How do you create new, wild
adventures that don't feel like something that the show has already
done? It's no easy feat.
This show has always managed to blend drama, comedy, and the absurd. The first episode touches upon drama when Rick subjects Summer and Morty to a simulation the equivalent of seventeen years as a punishment. While Summer and Beth bond as Summer is an adult in a child's body, Morty suffers from PTSD as a soldier that couldn't die in the simulation. It's an emotional episode, the most touching of the season. The reason for Rick's punishment is because Summer and Morty used his phone charger.
The third episode borrows from Unforgiven with a self-isolated Rick deciding to help clone Mortys.
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| Episode 4 |
Episode four has Jerry hitting with his car the second scariest Easter Bunny I've seen behind Teen Titan Go's version. Since Jerry killed the Easter Bunny, he begins to transform into the Easter Bunny. It's an alternate version to The Santa Clause. It's the wildest episode this season, but the other half of the episode is Jerry as the bunny forcing people to have sex. I like the premise, but Jerry's plight isn't interesting. The writers wanted to do something wild, and that was the best they could do. I get the religious overtones and how that relates to Easter and sex, but it isn't creative.
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| Episode 5 |
Due to cryo sleep adventures Rick and Morty disguise themselves as a rich child and a janitor in episode five. That ends up with Morty leading a social revolt for the "makeys" against Rick and the other rich "takeys."
Episode six features a crappy Earth theme park. It's an interesting premise that languishes. The episode tries to boost the episode with a Rick and Beth emotional moment.
Episode seven tackles crappy super hero movies and James Gunn. It seems like a generic episode, as if someone was trying to imitate Rick and Morty.
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| Episode 8 |
Episode eight is a nice change of pace, focusing on Jerry. Episode nine features Morty's son.
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| Episode 10 |
The season's episode ten deals with Rick's wife and his feelings over that loss.
The show has been around several years. That makes it difficult to not make new episodes feel like repeats, but season seven did have That's Amorte! Some episodes feel like they're trying to capture the best parts of the series, while others seem like they're just filler. This season isn't going to top anyone's best of list.
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