The Cast of ‘Rick and Morty’ on That Mind-Warping Season 8 Premiere

Rick and Morty kicked off its eighth season last night on Adult Swim. While “Summer of All Fears” did frame itself around why it’s very important to return a borrowed phone charger, it was really about several other themes that run much deeper—in grand Rick and Morty fashion. Early in the episode we learn that Rick has imprisoned Summer and Morty in a Matrix-style simulation as punishment for taking his phone charger. It’s classic Rick to use wild science to overreact to something so petty, but less expected was the fact that he accidentally left his grandkids brain-jacked into another reality for the equivalent of 17 years. On the outside world, it’s been the length of a drunken Rick nap. But when Summer and Morty emerge, they’ve both lived those years—yes, they were virtual; yes, there sure was an awful lot of talk about phone chargers—and have the equivalent emotional damage to go with that. Morty is more haunted than Summer; his simulated life involved a prison stint, then milita ... Read full article.