‘Rick and Morty’ Season 8 Feels Like a Whole New Beginning

The world may be dark and confusing, but at least Rick and Morty is finally back. Season eight comes nearly a year and a half after season seven wrapped up in late 2023, marking the end of the first outing for new stars Ian Cardoni (Rick) and Harry Belden (Morty). Fans couldn’t help but spend much of season seven listening very closely, searching for clues that the voices behind the show’s main characters had changed. But the transition was surprisingly seamless, and season eight continues that feeling—with the additional joy of hearing all the ways Cardoni and Belden are now stretching out in their roles. io9 was able to view episodes one (“Summer of All Fears”), three (“The Rick, the Mort & the Ugly”), four (“The Last Temptation of Jerry”), and five (“Cryo Mort a Rickver”)—no, we have no idea why Adult Swim skipped over episode two (“Valkyrick”), but either way, we won’t be spoiling anything in this review. Most of the episodes we watched hew to the trademark Rick and Morty formula ... Read full article.