Nomortland

"Nomortland" is a solid but unspectacular entry. It succeeds as a Jerry character study, using the multiverse to explore self-worth and the fear of being expendable. However, its narrative shortcuts and missed opportunities with Boss Jerry prevent it from reaching the heights of earlier Jerry-centric episodes (e.g., "The Last Temptation of Jerry"). The emotional beats land, and the humor sporadically shines, but it lacks the layered wit or ambition to be more than a pleasantly mid-tier diversion. There's a scene in this episode that's supposed to be some great revelation, but since it was NEVER foreshadowed it falls flat. There's no continuity in season 8 whatsoever. Nothing matters, so why should we care enough to watch?

After quite a hit or miss season this episode was awesome! A sci-fi concept that's perfect for Rick and Morty, with really fantastic character work and tons of twists and turns. Really like how much time we spent with Jerry in this one, was so fun to see how his character developed. And there was one visual gaga I won't spoil that had me howling. Montages and music work really well, the multiverse is utilised fantastically in this ep, and the writing is so sharp - funny jokes and great plot, a great relief after some episodes that feel like they come from another show. This one really shines and I hope we see more like it.

Episode eight of a patchy season of "Rick and Morty" was, for me, another one that took its premise forward without being particularly clever or funny with it.

Jerry (Chris Parnell) is introduced to the concept of "The Road" by Jerry from another dimension that he discovers eating his cereal one morning. The Road is a path between dimensions, that the various Jerry's have chosen to use to get around a multiverse leaden with wormholes created by Rick's (Ian Cardoni) work. All is smooth until they miss a connection and have to use "Grand Central" a universe controlled by boss Jerry.

One thing I've regularly bemoaned about this season of "Rick and Morty" is the abandonment of the A-Story, B-Story structure. This episode's whole plot, whilst fine, should have (with some of the beats cut obviously) been the B-Story to almost any of the other ones in this run. It would have taken the pressure of both episodes and made the characters feel less isolated from each other that I feel they often have done this season.

Again, it's not that this is bad. It's just that it's never funny or clever enough to really justify the way it's been delivered.

Thats it? The ending was a real let down. The episode was "almost" good!. It feels like the writers just re-watched the other seasons over and over again looking for content they could scrape together to form new episodes from. It Definitely does not feel like they had new and fresh material to work from.

Remember Mortynight Run where Jerry gets left in a Jerry Daycare with a ton of other Jerries. Well this felt like an overdue follow up to that where now Jerry gets to explore those other universes that are missing their Jerry. This episode was fun, easy going, and but also showcased the personal growth Jerry has made over the years. This episode was also the right balance of gags while having a self contained story. We see brief snippets of crazy alternate Rick N Morty universes as Jerry hops around, pausing on each just long that they never overstay their welcome or tire out their gag. It was nice seeing Jerry finally live a little after all the hard work he never does.