Rick and Morty: Season 8 Preview
Easter Eggs, Charging Cables, Cryo Pods and Gumbo. Separately these things have nothing in common but together they form plot points in the new season of Rick and Morty. Adult Swim allowed us a sneak peek of four of the first five episodes of the critically acclaimed cartoon’s eighth season.
The first thing that’s apparent in the new season is that Ian Cardoni (Rick) and Harry Belden (Morty) get the chance to make themselves at home in the roles in a way that season seven didn’t allow. This is apparent in episode three, “The Rick, The Mort & The Ugly”, where both Cardoni and Belden get the chance to flex their abilities.
The second is the writing, top tier as usual with plenty of references to past canon. In episode one, “Summer of All Fears”, we see Summer go out west and wearing turquois, a nod to a line from the season one episode, “Interdimensional Cable”, where she threatens to go out west and “I don’t know, do something with turquois!”
While we’ve had a few Christmas and Thanksgiving episodes, Rick and Morty gets its first Easter episode with episode four, “The Last Temptation of Jerry”. You’ll never look at Easter quite the same, though this fan is unsure if that’s a good or bad thing.
The final episode we got to screen was episode five, “Cryo Mort a Rickver”, which is going to be one of the episodes that truly stands out among the best episodes in the series. Though I won’t spoil it as to why.
Rick and Morty season eight premieres Sunday May 25th at 11PM ET/PT on Adult Swim.
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