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Critic Reviews
Nov 11, 2019
Season 4 Review:
The season 4 premiere was outrageously confident, and generally outrageous. Rick and Morty is angrily funny, powered by Rick’s galactic cynicism and a tendency toward hysterical navel-gazing criticism. The self-awareness would be annoying, if there wasn’t so much self there.
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Jul 31, 2017
Season 3 Review:
The series is shockingly funny, even when it goes into dark/disturbing mode, but moments like these confirmed that there was more going on than a bawdy, violent, nihilistically hilarious riff on science-fiction clichés and scientific principles, built around a character who’s like the Doctor reimagined by Armando Iannucci. ... Rick and Morty has always been one of wildest shows on TV. It’s time to admit that it’s also one of the best.
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Jul 20, 2015
Season 2 Review:
As usual, the laughs come from the thought that this doc Brown-homaging character may also have a little Hannibal Lecter in him as he sociopathically berates his grandkids Morty and Summer. [24 Jul 2015, p.55]
Screen RantAug 28, 2025
Season 8 Review:
The gore is constant this season, with quite a few horrific deaths per episode. The show does not shy away from it, which adds to the visceral experience, especially when Rick treats it in the most nonchalant way possible. There are also several gorgeous backdrops as we go to different planets, and it helps the show feel as immersive and grand as it should be, making Rick and Morty season 8 an all-around gem.
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Jun 24, 2021
Season 5 Review:
If the quality of the first episode of season five is at all indicative of what we’ll be seeing the rest of this season, it’s probably a good thing the show’s creators took the time to get it right. The opening salvo of the new season is spectacular: insane joke density, an ever-present silliness brushing up against bad taste, awkward social situations laid bare, and hilariously tearing classic sci-fi and genre conventions a new one.
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Jun 15, 2021
Season 5 Review:
Just as rambling, hyper-specific, and brilliantly dumb as this series always has been. ... If you love the show for its weirdo characters, Mr. Nimbus will leave you quoting and thrusting to his every line. If sci-fi insanity is more your speed, there’s a time-altering B-plot that is so perfectly Rick and Morty you’ll be shocked the show hasn’t done it before.
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Aug 29, 2022
Season 6 Review:
Season 6 so far is full of references to earlier episodes that will land better if you’re the kind of obsessive fan that’s watched all the previous seasons multiple times (to say nothing of references to Raiders of the Lost Ark, or The Usual Suspects). But there are also some entertaining new riffs that may well enter the annals of the show’s most popular bits.
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Oct 12, 2023
Season 7 Review:
Justin Roiland’s departure hasn’t changed Rick and Morty. The yet-to-be-identified actors playing the title characters sound pretty much identical to Roiland and the first two episodes of season 7 offer the same mix of sharp meta humor, emotional depth, and grotesque animation that has always made Rick and Morty great, delivering bombastic standalone adventures that offer just a bit of character growth.
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Sep 6, 2022
Jun 21, 2021
Season 5 Review:
A nemesis is a fresh ordeal for Rick. That Rick has one at all is surprising, given how many episodes of this show are devoted to showing him bragging about how far beneath him every being in every multiverse is. ... There's a special twinge of dark humor in making one of the many tentacles of Nimbus' power that he "controls the police." ... Welcome to "Rick and Morty" in 2021. The hero has met his match and doesn't quite know what to do. He's vulnerable, and so are we.
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Oct 20, 2023
Season 7 Review:
Undoubtedly, there will be fans who complain that Rick and Morty collapsed in Roiland’s absence. .... For the rest of the fans, either those uninterested in how the sausage is made or who have been able to keep an open mind, Season 7 will likely satisfy their thirst for more Rick and Morty.
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Dec 13, 2013
Season 1 Review:
In the golden age of narrative TV, cartoons offer countervailing subversive pleasures: They're juvenile, satiric, surreal. Those words all apply to the wild spree Rick and Morty. [23 Dec 2013]
May 23, 2025
Season 8 Review:
New characters like Space Beth and Evil Morty add new intrigue to the show, and although it’s stagnated a little bit in the four episodes I’ve seen of season eight, I’d be surprised if there weren’t juicer plot episodes in at least one of the other six. One thing is for certain, however: Rick and Morty is just fine without Justin Roiland.
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Oct 12, 2023
Season 7 Review:
Adult Swim gave critics the first two episodes of Season Seven. Neither represents the series at its best. .... Whatever character voice is necessary, Rick and Morty still has it, even if its comedic voice isn’t on its strongest possible display at the start of the new season.
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The Daily BeastNov 11, 2019
Season 4 Review:
In ways both refreshing and disappointing, it is indeed a throwback to a simpler Rick and Morty, with lower emotional stakes, some of the show’s signature inventiveness, and more straightforward sci-fi adventure. “Edge of Tomorty” isn’t the funniest the show has ever been, and it is far from the most meaningful. But the episode does boast a wildly profane imagination, gruesome visual contortions, and the self-awareness needed to poke fun at its own slightness.
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