It’s time to Get Schwifty – Rick and Morty are back for a seventh season of existential surrealism!
After the well-publicised departure of Justin Roiland, the new, yet-to-be-named voices of Rick and Morty are barely noticeable to the audience if you had or hadn’t paid attention to any of the behind-the-scenes controversies. The first two episodes are standalones, happily dipping into some meta jokes about canon and paying attention to previous episodes. In Episode 1, How Poopy Got His Poop Back, we have the return of some fan favourites, one of whom has fallen on hard times. Rick begrudgingly stages an intervention that ‘isn’t an intervention’, which of course, in true Rick Sanchez style, turns into an intergalactic bender. Cue party mixers, honey raves, an A-list cameo, a 1980s outro and a hilarious explanation about fading out and we’re back into the show’s comedy core.
Episode 2, The Jerrick Trap, is an off-the-cuff Rick and Jerry adventure, instigated by an argument over a rake (what else?!) and an ill-thought-out mind swap. This is arguably a stronger episode, with some of the best writing being in ‘throwaway’ comments such as needing to pretend breakfast and school matter. Morty gets caught with crystals on Crimeworld and we end up with a buddy-heist story that the whole family get dragged into.
Both episodes are a welcome return for Rick and Morty and set up a promising series, comprising of eight more episodes without a mid-season break as had been the norm.
RICK AND MORTY: SEASON 7 premieres on Tuesday, October 17th at 10pm on E4 and will be available to stream on Channel 4.
