Morty Daddy

All it did here was take away from what actually had potential. They could have just deleted the Rick and Summer plot and put all that screen time into fleshing out the A plot, add actual growth and resolution to their relationship, and not just make a joke out of it like they seem to do with every single thing they know the viewers care about.

Why are they making the show at this point? All they seem to wanna do is just spite the audience. Just quit. Sell the IP and let someone else take over. The amount of disdain from the writers this show emanates is so bizarre.

The penultimate episode of this eighth season of "Rick and Morty" is perhaps the pick of the bunch so far.

Morty (Harry Belden) gets a call from his son, Morty Jnr (Maurice LaMarche) who is near death and wants only to meet his mother, a sex-robot that has been dumped in a pocket dimension of Rick's (Ian Cardoni) creation, exclusively used to dump rubbish and broken/useless tech. Rick and Summer (Spencer Grammer) have reservations to a precog restaurant, where the food is selected for you, based on what they know you will want. However, the precogs have prepared for Rick's arrival.

I don't think is a co-incidence that that two episode that have worked the best this season are the two that stuck to the classic "A" and "B" story format and this episode is genuinely good. Film parody's a bit a played out, I admit but the nods to both "Minority Report" and "The Lord of the Rings" and just enhancements to the stories here, rather than the actual stories themselves.

The best episode of this run. Lets hope it can finish strongly next week.

The voice acting of Rick and Morty is becoming nearly unbearable. Rick isn't too bad but I really struggle to watch any episodes that are Morty heavy.

There have been a couple of episodes that have been enjoyable this series but I cant see how much further the show can go. And this sentence is just to meet the required number of. Characters.

This Rick and Morty episode was a real miss, landing firmly on the "therapy to cure insomnia" side. The A-plot with Rick and Summer at the precognitive restaurant was just dull. Rick likes it summer hates it, Summer's mad ricks's not paying attention, and we have two generically boring chase scene .

The B-plot with Morty and his adult son was even worse. It felt like nothing important was happening, leading nowhere. No character, including Morty, was likable or used in an interesting way. The plot felt automatic, and honestly, not a single joke was funny.

It just felt like white noise; things happened just because. But that's how Rick and Morty is a roulette wheel. Sometimes you get gold, and sometimes you get this big pile of nothing, is not that the episode is bad is just that is nothing.

Rick and Morty has consistently gotten worse over the last few seasons. The plot of this episode is so moronic I felt like I would have to bang my head against a wall to lower my IQ enough to enjoy it. Harry Belden is also an absolutely terrible voice for Morty - he overly embraces the stutter and makes Morty sound like an idiot. It's like Morty is trying to do a Morty voice. The writing feels uninspired, like it's just trying to meet episode quotas instead of telling interesting stories. Every episode lacks the nuances that made the original seasons great. The core theme of the show feels broken now; whatever heart, creativity, or meaning it once had has been replaced with shallow gimmicks.