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Rating: 8.7/10 | Genre: Animation, Comedy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Action & Adventure | Seasons: 9 | Episodes: 91 | Status: Returning Series
Starring: Chris Parnell, Spencer Grammer, Sarah Chalke, Ian Cardoni, Harry Belden
I just finished binging all nine seasons of Rick and Morty, and I have to be honest: this show is exactly as good as people say it is, but also kind of infuriating sometimes. It’s brilliant and stupid in equal measure, which I guess is the whole point. If you haven’t watched it yet, do yourself a favor and start with season one. Just go in knowing that the first few seasons are going to blow your mind, and the later ones are going to make you scratch your head wondering if the show lost the plot or if you just got older.
Season 1
The pilot episode is instantly charming. Rick shows up at his daughter’s house as a total mess of a person, and Morty gets dragged into his first adventure. The dynamic is gold from minute one. Rick is a genius who clearly doesn’t give a crap about anything, and Morty is terrified and eager to please. That’s the whole show right there.
Season one is short, just eleven episodes, and it feels like the creators are still figuring out what they want to do. You get the inception episode where they mess with Morty’s teacher’s dreams, which is hilarious. You get the episode where they shrink down inside a person’s body at Christmas. It’s weird and creative, and every episode feels like the writers are just throwing ideas at the wall to see what sticks.
The best part about season one is that it doesn’t take itself seriously. It’s just a show about a drunk scientist and his scared grandson getting into increasingly absurd situations. That’s it. That’s the appeal.
Season 2
Season two is where things start getting darker. The show leans more into the sci-fi concepts and actually builds some mythology around the universe it’s creating. We learn there’s a whole Citadel of Ricks, which sounds silly but it’s actually a cool idea.
This season also introduces more complicated emotional stuff. Rick’s reconnection with an old girlfriend shows that under all the drinking and chaos, he’s capable of actually caring about people. The parasites episode is genuinely unsettling. Summer gets more screen time and proves she can hold her own in an adventure. By the end of season two, you start to realize this show might have some heart buried underneath all the burps and violence.
Season 3
This is where the show really hit peak popularity, I think. The Pickle Rick episode became a meme, and suddenly everyone was talking about Rick and Morty. For good reason. That episode is funny and weird and has some genuine emotional payoff with the family therapy stuff.
Season three feels more confident overall. The writers know what works, and they’re leaning into the character dynamics. There’s an episode where they go to a post-apocalyptic world, and it’s just beautiful chaos. Rick’s character gets more depth here too. He’s still a terrible person, but you start understanding why he acts the way he does.
The only problem is that by the end of season three, the show feels like it’s starting to repeat itself. How many times can Rick and Morty go on an adventure that almost kills them before it gets old? That’s when I started wondering if the show could sustain itself for much longer.
Season 4
Season four was weird. There was a whole thing with production delays and the show going on a hiatus. When it came back, something felt different. The episodes felt more scattered, like the writers were trying too hard to be weird instead of letting the weirdness happen naturally.
Don’t get me wrong, there are still good episodes here. But this is where I started noticing that the show was becoming less about Rick and Morty’s relationship and more about just throwing random nonsense at the audience. The novelty of “anything can happen” wears off when you realize that nothing that happens actually matters to the characters.
Season 5
Okay, season five is where I almost stopped watching. The show felt like it was trying to shock me instead of entertain me. There’s an episode with testicle monsters. There’s a whole character named Mr. Nimbus who exists just to be crude. It felt like the show was running out of ideas and replacing creativity with shock value.
That said, there are moments here that work. The deeper you get into the season, the more the show remembers that it’s supposed to have character development alongside the insanity. By the end, I was back in. Not completely sold, but back in enough to keep watching.
Season 6
Season six feels like the show reset itself a little bit. Rick and Morty are worse for wear. There’s actual consequence to all the chaos they’ve caused. For the first time in a while, I felt like the show was trying to tell a story instead of just creating episodes.
The Roy’s Game episode, which is basically a riff on a video game concept, is genuinely moving. These characters have been through a lot, and the show finally acknowledged that. The family stuff feels more grounded here. Beth’s character arc is actually interesting for once instead of just being the angry middle child.
Season 7
By season seven, I accepted that this show is never going to top seasons one through three, and that’s okay. This season is just solid. The episodes are entertaining. Rick and Morty still have good chemistry. Summer’s become a legitimate part of the show instead of a side character.
There’s less of the universe-hopping chaos here and more focus on smaller stories. An episode where Rick helps an old friend, or where the president shows up again. It feels like the writers learned that the show works best when it’s not trying to blow your mind with concepts every single episode.
Season 8
Season eight is fun. Rick left the kids in a matrix, which is a premise that could’ve been a disaster, but the show does it right. There’s a space Beth storyline that actually has some emotional weight. The show’s still got gas in the tank, basically.
The problem at this point is that the show has been on for so long that it’s running on fumes creatively. The writers are clearly having fun with it, but you can tell that everyone’s tired. The episodes work, but they don’t stick with you the way earlier seasons did.
Season 9
The newest season just dropped, and it’s… fine. It’s Rick and Morty. You know what you’re getting. The show’s formula is so worn in by now that nothing surprises you anymore. Rick’s going to drink. Morty’s going to be dragged into something. Summer’s going to be sarcastic about it. The universe will almost end.
But honestly, after nine seasons, I’m not angry about that. The show has earned the right to just coast a little. Not everything has to be groundbreaking. Sometimes you just want to spend time with characters you’ve grown to actually care about, even if they’re terrible people.
The cast carries everything here. Chris Parnell’s Rick voice is instantly recognizable and always funny. Spencer Grammer as Summer brings some real wit to the show. And Sarah Chalke as Beth has become way more interesting as the show goes on. The voice acting is consistently great, which is half the battle with an animated show.
So is Rick and Morty worth your time? Yeah, absolutely. But go in knowing that the first three seasons are the best, and everything after that is a bonus. The show doesn’t decline sharply, it just kind of levels out. You’ll probably want to binge the early seasons, and then maybe watch the newer ones when you need something to have on in the background.
Have you watched Rick and Morty yet, or are you one of the people who’s been avoiding it because you’re tired of hearing about it?
Episode Guide
Season 1 (11 Episodes)
Episode 1: Pilot (7.6/10)
Rick moves in with his daughter's family and establishes himself as a bad influence on his grandson, Morty.
Episode 2: Lawnmower Dog (8/10)
Rick and Morty try to incept Morty's math teacher into giving Morty an 'A'. Meanwhile, Rick gives Jerry a device to train their dog, Snuffles.
Episode 3: Anatomy Park (7.9/10)
Christmas day, Rick's friend, Reuben, comes over for his annual medical checkup. Meanwhile Jerry learns his parents have a new friend.
Episode 4: M. Night Shaym-Aliens! (7.9/10)
Rick and Morty try to get to the bottom of a mystery in this M. Night Shyamalan style twistaroony of an episode!
Episode 5: Meeseeks and Destroy (8.3/10)
When Morty thinks Rick's adventures are too dangerous, he challenges Rick to let him lead one instead.
Episode 6: Rick Potion #9 (8.4/10)
Rick provides Morty with a love potion to get his dream girl, only for the serum to backfire and create a living Cronenberg nightmare.
Episode 7: Raising Gazorpazorp (7.7/10)
Morty convinces Rick to buy him a sexy robot. Later Rick and Summer spend some quality time together.
Episode 8: Rixty Minutes (8/10)
Rick hacks the cable box, but the family are distracted by another one of his inventions.
Episode 9: Something Ricked This Way Comes (7.8/10)
Rick battles the devil and upsets Summer. Meanwhile, Jerry and Morty hang out.
Episode 10: Close Rick-Counters of the Rick Kind (8.6/10)
Rick and Morty have a falling out when Rick is approached by some familiar associates.
Episode 11: Ricksy Business (7.7/10)
Beth and Jerry go away on a trip, so Rick decides to throw a party.
Season 2 (10 Episodes)
Episode 1: A Rickle in Time (8.3/10)
Rick, Morty, and Summer get into trouble when time is fractured by a feedback loop of uncertainty that split reality into more than one equally possible impossibilities. Meanwhile, Beth and Jerry go to extreme lengths to save a deer struck by their vehicle.
Episode 2: Mortynight Run (8.1/10)
Rick teaches Morty to drive while leaving Jerry at a popular day care made just for him. Morty's conscience has him hunt down an assassin rather than spending the day at an alien arcade.
Episode 3: Auto Erotic Assimilation (8.1/10)
Rick gets emotionally invested when meeting an old friend, while Beth and Jerry have a falling out after making a discovery under the garage.
Episode 4: Total Rickall (8.9/10)
Trapped inside the house with an ever-increasing number of parasitic alien shape-shifters capable of altering memories, an uncertain Rick and the Smiths search for a way to determine which of them are real.
Episode 5: Get Schwifty (7.9/10)
When a massive head descends into Earth's atmosphere, Rick and Morty must save the planet by coming up with a new hit song. Meanwhile, Jerry, Beth, and Summer become part of a new religion.
Episode 6: The Ricks Must Be Crazy (8.9/10)
Rick and Morty travel inside the car's battery, where Morty discovers Rick has created a universe containing sentient life solely to produce power for him. Meanwhile, Summer must deal with being locked in the car with Rick's overzealous security system.
Episode 7: Big Trouble in Little Sanchez (8/10)
Rick joins in on hijinks while Beth and Jerry sort out relationship issues.
Episode 8: Interdimensional Cable 2: Tempting Fate (7.2/10)
Jerry gets sick, and Rick sparks up the TV.
Episode 9: Look Who's Purging Now (8.2/10)
Morty makes a mistake and Jerry and Summer work on their father-daughter relationship.
Episode 10: The Wedding Squanchers (8.7/10)
The whole family makes mistakes.
Season 3 (10 Episodes)
Episode 1: The Rickshank Rickdemption (8.8/10)
The Smith family tries to cope without Rick, which is painful enough on its own without taking into consideration the stifling rules put into place by the Federation. Meanwhile Rick's past is finally revealed as he attempts to get out of his prison
Episode 2: Rickmancing the Stone (7.8/10)
Rick, Morty and Summer travel to a post-apocalyptic dimension and meet some dangerous enemies.
Episode 3: Pickle Rick (8.6/10)
It's family therapy time in this one broh. Classic stuff. Pickle Rick too.
Episode 4: Vindicators 3: The Return of Worldender (7.7/10)
Action and heroes.
Episode 5: The Whirly Dirly Conspiracy (8/10)
Rick and Jerry goes on an adventure while Beth fails as a mother and Summer has body issues.
Episode 6: Rest and Ricklaxation (8.3/10)
Rick and Morty need a break.
Episode 7: The Ricklantis Mixup (9.1/10)
Rick and Morty head to Atlantis. Meanwhile, the Citadel of Ricks undergoes major changes under new leadership.
Episode 8: Morty's Mind Blowers (8.5/10)
Morty's memories are restored and we learn the truth in this one broh.
Episode 9: The ABC's of Beth (7.8/10)
Jerry pulls in some lady in this one broh. Beth revisits her childhood.
Episode 10: The Rickchurian Mortydate (8/10)
Rick goes toe to toe with the President in this one broh.
Season 4 (10 Episodes)
Episode 1: Edge of Tomorty: Rick Die Rickpeat (8.5/10)
Morty goes nuts this time. Rick does stuff.
Episode 2: The Old Man and the Seat (7.9/10)
We all have one thing in common, broh. I don't know, broh. Watch this one.
Episode 3: One Crew Over the Crewcoo's Morty (7.8/10)
Lots of twists and turns this time, broh. Wear your helmets.
Episode 4: Claw and Hoarder: Special Ricktim's Morty (7.3/10)
Morty gets a dragon in this one, broh. It's a wild ride, broh.
Episode 5: Rattlestar Ricklactica (8.2/10)
Lots of things in space, broh. Snakes and sharp stuff. Watch this, broh.
Episode 6: Never Ricking Morty (7.6/10)
Choo choo, broh. Catch this train, broh.
Episode 7: Promortyus (7.5/10)
Get off my face, broh.
Episode 8: The Vat of Acid Episode (8.6/10)
The one with the acid vat, broh.
Episode 9: Childrick of Mort (7.3/10)
Miracle of life, broh. Whole family in this one, broh.
Episode 10: Star Mort Rickturn of the Jerri (8/10)
Parenting is crazy, broh. Stuff straight disappearin' in this one.
Season 5 (10 Episodes)
Episode 1: Mort Dinner Rick Andre (8.3/10)
Big man comin' for dinner, broh. Better check the booze.
Episode 2: Mortyplicity (8/10)
Who's even real, broh? Are you real? Broh?
Episode 3: A Rickconvenient Mort (7.2/10)
Reduce, reuse, broh. Might be too late.
Episode 4: Rickdependence Spray (6.4/10)
No shame, broh. We all do it, broh.
Episode 5: Amortycan Grickfitti (6.8/10)
Adults 'r' gone tonight, broh. Grab the keys.
Episode 6: Rick & Morty's Thanksploitation Spectacular (6.9/10)
Gobble gobble, broh. Rick and Morty givin' thanks in this one.
Episode 7: Gotron Jerrysis Rickvangelion (6.5/10)
Check these ferrets, broh. Gotta keep it in the family though.
Episode 8: Rickternal Friendshine of the Spotless Mort (7.5/10)
Friendship is hard. It's like a journey of the mind, broh.
Episode 9: Forgetting Sarick Mortshall (7.5/10)
Two crows, broh. These guys are mad smart.
Episode 10: Rickmurai Jack (8.3/10)
Tryin' something new, broh. Doin' it big.
Season 6 (10 Episodes)
Episode 1: Solaricks (8/10)
Last season's finale was a doozy, broh. What do we do now, broh?
Episode 2: Rick: A Mort Well Lived (7.5/10)
Roy's our boy, broh.
Episode 3: Bethic Twinstinct (7.5/10)
Gotta love yourself or no one else ever will, broh.
Episode 4: Night Family (8/10)
Broh, I'm scared.
Episode 5: Final DeSmithation (7.5/10)
Fortune cookies, broh.
Episode 6: JuRicksic Mort (7.7/10)
They're back, broh.
Episode 7: Full Meta Jackrick (7.4/10)
This one wrinkled my brain, broh.
Episode 8: Analyze Piss (7.6/10)
Haters gonna hate, broh.
Episode 9: A Rick in King Mortur's Mort (7.1/10)
Things are heating up, y'know what I mean, broh?
Episode 10: Ricktional Mortpoon's Rickmas Mortcation (7.7/10)
Merry Rickmas, broh!
Season 7 (10 Episodes)
Episode 1: How Poopy Got His Poop Back (6.3/10)
Rick tries to help a friend get back on his feet.
Episode 2: The Jerrick Trap (7.6/10)
Rick teaches Jerry that he works smarter, not harder.
Episode 3: Air Force Wong (7.1/10)
Rick and the President are back at it.
Episode 4: That's Amorte (8/10)
Rick shares his secret recipe with the family.
Episode 5: Unmortricken (8.7/10)
Rick and Morty get stuck on a project.
Episode 6: Rickfending Your Mort (7.2/10)
Morty gets audited.
Episode 7: Wet Kuat Amortican Summer (6.8/10)
Summer and Morty spend time together with friends.
Episode 8: Rise of the Numbericons: The Movie (5.1/10)
Our heroes realize that math is hard, but saving the universe is harder.
Episode 9: Mort: Ragnarick (7.4/10)
Rick seeks the infinite. Morty tries to help.
Episode 10: Fear No Mort (8.6/10)
A jaded Rick and Morty seek spooky thrills.
Season 8 (10 Episodes)
Episode 1: Summer of All Fears (8.4/10)
Rick left the kids in a matrix. Not chill, broh.
Episode 2: Valkyrick (7.4/10)
Space Beth calls her dad for a ride, broh.
Episode 3: The Rick, the Mort & the Ugly (7.7/10)
Some guys wanna rebuild the citadel, broh. Seems like a bad idea, broh. Yeehaw stuff, broh.
Episode 4: The Last Temptation of Jerry (6.8/10)
Broh is risen. The Smiths learn the true meaning of Easter. Kind of. Broh.
Episode 5: Cryo Mort a Rickver (7.4/10)
Broh! Rick and Morty wanna rob a ship in cryosleep. But people are light sleepers, broh.
Episode 6: The CuRicksous Case of Bethjamin Button (7.8/10)
The brohs goes to a theme park Rick loves. Beth and Space Beth stay behind and regress or something.
Episode 7: Ricker than Fiction (7.4/10)
Rick and Morty write the next installment of their favorite movie franchise. Pure cinema, broh.
Episode 8: Nomortland (7.8/10)
That funemployed life, broh. Jerry makes a friend just as jobless as he is.
Episode 9: Morty Daddy (7.5/10)
Summer and Rick dine OUT, broh. Fancy restaurant stuff. Morty reconnects with someone from his past.
Episode 10: Hot Rick (8.4/10)
Brohhhhh. Broh. Sometimes we try weird stuff to let go of the past, broh.
Season 9 (10 Episodes)
Episode 1: There's Something About Morty
Rick's been lonely, broh. Morty's worried bout side pieces.
Episode 2: Ricks Days, Seven Nights
You try being Rick all the time, broh!
Episode 3: Rick Fu Hustle
Episode 4: A Ricker Runs Through It
Episode 5: Jer Bud
Episode 6: Erickerhead
Episode 7: MortGully: The Last Rickforest
Episode 8: Rickuiem Mort a Dream
Episode 9: Salute Your Morts
Episode 10: Field of Dreams
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