Rick and Morty

The following recap contains spoilers for Rick and Morty S8E7 “Ricker Than Fiction” (written by Rob Schrab and directed by Douglas Einar Olsen). This week, James Gunn’s Superman drops in theaters. And in this week’s Rick and Morty, James Gunn himself (voicing himself) is the villain. It’s another semi-meta episode, which includes Dan Harmon’s story circle. Is […] More

The following recap contains spoilers for Rick and Morty S8E6, “The CuRicksous Case of Bethjamin Button” (written by Heather Anne Campbell & Jess Lacher and directed by Eugene Huang).  Beth and Space Beth hate their lives. Set to the theme song of Cheers, the Beths wake up, go about their jobs (Beth doing horse veterinarian stuff, and […] More

The following recap contains spoilers for Rick and Morty S8E5, “Cryo Mort a Rickver” (written by Nick Rutherford and directed by Fill Marc Sagadraca). As they do, Rick and Morty are traveling through space and listening to morbid podcasts when the ship’s scanner picks up a Cryoship signal with the power still online. The duo […] More

The following recap contains spoilers for Rick and Morty S8E4 “The Last Temptation of Jerry” (written by Heather Anne Campbell and directed by Douglas Einar Olsen) Body horror, sodomy, and blasphemy, oh my! Strap yourself for a truly classic Rick and Morty episode with “The Last Temptation of Jerry!” This is a f*cking funny one.  The […] More

The following recap contains spoilers for Rick and Morty S8E3, “The Rick, The Mort & The Ugly (written by Michael Kellner, Albro Lundy and James Ciciliano and directed by Jacob Hair). Rick and Morty are collecting Citadel wreckage after the Citadel was destroyed in S5E10 “Rickmurai Jack.” Morty is deeply bored, playing with his fidget […] More

The following recap contains spoilers for Rick and Morty S8E2, “Valkyrick” (written by Scott Marder and directed by Jacob Hair) Rick and Morty S8E2 (“Valkyrick”) opens with an organization called the Galactic Defiance planning to assassinate the Gromflomite Queen. The assassin—Space Beth—-is a no-show, having taken it into her own hands to take out the […] More

The following recap contains spoilers for Rick and Morty S8E1 “The Summer of All Fears” (written by Jess Lacher and directed by Fill Marc Sagadraca) Rick and Morty S8E1, “The Summer of All Fears,” opens on a crowd standing at the gates in front of a skyscraper from which an adult Summer, described by a […] More

The following recap contains spoilers for Rick and Morty S7E10 “Fear No Mort” (written by Heather Anne Campbell and directed by Eugene Huang).  It’s finale time! Rick and Morty S7E10 (“Fear No Mort”) is one of the best episodes of the season and a top-tier episode of Rick and Morty full stop. At this point, […] More

The following recap contains spoilers for Rick and Morty S7E9 “Mort: Ragnarick” (written by Jeremy Gilfor and Scott Marder and directed by Kyounghee Lim). After a couple of episodes that didn’t really rank in the upper echelons of Rick and Morty, S7E9 “Mort: Ragnarick” is a refreshingly fun and entertaining episode. We open on Jerry visiting his […] More

The following recap contains spoilers for Rick and Morty S7E8 “Rise of the Numbericons: The Movie” (written by Rob Schrab and directed by Lucas Gray). This week’s episode of Rick and Morty, “Rise of the Numbericons: The Movie,” actually doesn’t feature Rick at all, but Morty and his teacher Mr. Goldenfold join Ice-T—excuse me, Water-T—on […] More

The following recap contains spoilers for Rick and Morty S7E7, “Wet Kuat Amortican Summer” (written by Alex Song-Xia and directed by Kyounghee Lim).  Rick and Morty S7E7, “Wet Kuat Amortican Summer,” is the first episode of the show to feature Summer’s name (thus rounding out the roster of main characters for name usage in episode […] More

The following recap contains spoilers for Rick and Morty S7E6, “Rickfending Your Mort” (written by Cody Ziglar and directed by Jacob Hair).  After last week’s insanely eventful episode, Rick and Morty S7E6, “Rickfending Your Mort,” brings significantly lower stakes, but all of the ridiculous chaos. We were about due for another clip-style episode, and while I […] More