Review Rick and Morty (2013)

Rick and Morty is an American adult animated science fiction comedy series created by Justin Roiland and Dan Harmon for Cartoon Network's late-night programming block Adult Swim. The series follows the misadventures of cynical mad scientist Rick Sanchez and his fretful, easily influenced grandson Morty Smith, who split their time between domestic life and interdimensional adventures. The series premiered on December 2, 2013, and the third season concluded on October 1, 2017. A fourth season has been mentioned, first by Harmon in a September 2017 interview, and later in the post-credits scene of the third season's finale.

Roiland voices the eponymous characters, with Chris Parnell, Spencer Grammer, and Sarah Chalke voicing the rest of the family. The series originated from an animated short parody film of Back to the Future, The Real Animated Adventures of Doc and Mharti, created by Roiland for Channel 101, a short film festival co-founded by Harmon. When Adult Swim approached Harmon for television show ideas, he and Roiland decided to develop a program based on the short. The series has received universal acclaim for its originality, creativity, and humor.


The show revolves around the adventures of the members of the Smith household, which consists of parents Jerry and Beth, their kids Summer and Morty, and Beth's father, Rick Sanchez, who lives with them as a guest. According to Justin Roiland, the family lives outside of Seattle in the U.S. state of Washington.[1] The adventures of Rick and Morty, however, take place across an infinite number of realities, with the characters travelling to other planets and dimensions through portals and Rick's flying car.

Rick is an eccentric and alcoholic mad scientist, who eschews many ordinary conventions such as school, marriage, love, and family. He frequently goes on adventures with his 14-year-old grandson, Morty, a kind but easily distressed boy, whose naive but grounded moral compass plays counterpoint to Rick's Machiavellian ego. Morty's 17-year-old sister, Summer, is a more conventional teenager, who worries about improving her status among her peers and sometimes follows Rick and Morty on their adventures. The kids' mother, Beth, is a generally level-headed person and assertive force in the household, though self-conscious about her professional role as a horse doctor. She is dissatisfied with her marriage with Jerry, a simple-minded and insecure person, who disapproves of Rick's influence over his family.

Different versions of the characters inhabit other dimensions throughout the multiverse and their personal characteristics can vary from one reality to another. The show's original Rick identifies himself as "Rick Sanchez of Earth Dimension C-137", in reference to his original universe, but this does not necessarily apply to every other member of the Smith household. For instance, in the first-season episode "Rick Potion #9", after turning the entire world population into monsters, Rick and Morty move to a different dimension, leaving Summer, Beth and Jerry behind.

Critical reception
Rick and Morty has received universal critical acclaim, holding a 97% approval rating by critics on review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes.[48] David Weigand of San Francisco Chronicle described it as "offbeat and occasionally coarse... the take-away here is that it works". He praised the animation direction by James McDermott for being "fresh, colorful and as wacky as the script", and states that the series possesses "shades of Futurama, South Park and even Beetlejuice", ultimately opining that its humor felt "entirely original".[49]Neil Genzlinger of The New York Times praised the series and stated that it was "Grandparenting at its unhinged finest."[50]

Todd Spangler of Variety gave the series a lukewarm review; while he found the series was passable, he contrasted it with other Adult Swim series as "often seems overly reliant on simply being frenetic at the expense of being witty" and enjoyed it as "a welcome attempt to dream just a little bigger".[51] David Sims of The A.V. Club gave the series an "A−". In reviewing the first two episodes, he complimented the animation for its "clean, simple style". He stated that while the series has "a dark, sick sensibility", he praised its "effort to give each character a little bit of depth", further applauding Roiland's voice talent for the eponymous characters


Future
Although there has not been an official renewal announcement by Adult Swim,[19] Dan Harmon talked about the possibility of creating more than ten episodes per season, in a September 2017 interview, where he stated "I’m about to do season 4 of Rick and Morty and want to prove that I’ve grown."[20] On October 1, 2017, similarly to the second-season finale, the animated character Mr. Poopybutthole re-appeared in the post-credits scene of the third-season finale and said that it will be a long wait until the fourth season of the show.[21] Writer Ryan Ridley, in a December 2017 interview with The Detroit Cast,[22] said that he "highly doubts" there will not be a fourth season, but he does not expect it to air any sooner than late 2019.[23] In January 2018, Adult Swim told Variety that "there is no timing to share on premiere or status of production."

“Rick and Morty” Future Is In Limbo





Responding to an angry fan demanding to know why work had yet to begin on a fourth season of Adult Swim’s “Rick and Morty” animated series, show co-creator Dan Harmon revealed that there was a very good reason creative staff were not working on new episodes.

It turns out the network has yet to order a fourth season, despite the show being a critical and ratings smash, and the lack of a deal is preventing Harmon from writing anything for the show at all. His tweeted response:

“I hear ya, tough spot. On one hand, it can be challenging, especially with crippling lazy alcoholism, to write a show that hasn’t been ordered by a network. On the other hand, the thought that fans like you pay the price… I mean… I’m gonna grab a drink.”

Back in January, series writer Ryan Ridley indicated network delays over a decision meant the show, at the current pace, won’t have new episodes ready until late 2019. For now, the future of “Rick and Morty” is unclear.

Don't think I have heard of this one until now.

But it has been going since 2013.

Anyone a fan?

[QUOTE="Doctor Omega, post: 38861, member: 6”]It turns out the network has yet to order a fourth season, despite the show being a critical and ratings smash, and the lack of a deal is preventing Harmon from writing anything for the show at all. His tweeted response:

“I hear ya, tough spot. On one hand, it can be challenging, especially with crippling lazy alcoholism, to write a show that hasn’t been ordered by a network. On the other hand, the thought that fans like you pay the price… I mean… I’m gonna grab a drink.”

Back in January, series writer Ryan Ridley indicated network delays over a decision meant the show, at the current pace, won’t have new episodes ready until late 2019. For now, the future of “Rick and Morty” is unclear.[/QUOTE]

Adult swim is so craptacular. Look what they did to the fourth season of “The Boondocks” and “Metalocalypse”. They don’t know what to do with their best programming.

“Rick and Morty” To Get 70 New Episodes





Turns out there was good reason Adult Swim was taking its time on deciding to renew their iconic animated series “Rick and Morty,” and it wasn’t a question of if so much as ‘how big a renewal’. Today comes the news and it’s a whopper.

THR reports that in a new ‘longterm deal’, the network has handed out a 70-episode order of the cult cartoon from co-creators Justin Roiland and Dan Harmon. That is more than double the 31 episodes that have aired to date across three seasons and pushes it past the 100 episode number which allows for rich syndication deals.

Should it stick to the current episode count, it would take the show through to a tenth season airing sometime well into the late 2020s, though no time frame for the episodes has been announced.

“Rick and Morty” has become the flagship show of Adult Swim, ranking as TV’s No. 1 comedy, cable or broadcast, among millennials in 2017. To celebrate the news Adult Swim is rolling out a multi-city pop-up, the Rickmobile, to cater to the fervent fan base kicking off May 17th in Atlanta and ending at San Diego Comic Con in July.

Harmon Explains That “Rick & Morty” Renewal





Adult Swim took a hell of a long time to renew their wildly successful animated series “Rick and Morty,” and then the other month it was revealed why – the show scoring a renewal for a gigantic 70 episodes.

That more than doubled the number of existing episodes aired so far over three seasons and will take the show past the 100 episode mark. The deal was part of a series of extended discussions and series co-creator and executive producer Dan Harmon has spoken with GQ about why it took so long.

Harmon conducted part of the interview before the deal was closed and revealed both he and co-creator Justin Roiland were holding out for a contract that granted them not just many, “many, many more seasons,” but also enough money so Harmon “doesn’t have to take 12 other jobs while we’re working on season four” and thus both can give the show their full attention.

Despite the show’s ratings success, both Harmon and Roiland apparently had to take on other jobs while working on the show in order to stay afloat financially. Following the renewal’s announcement, Harmon said in a follow-up: “I can finally actually breathe and be as excited as I’ve wanted to be… From now on, the reason I’m not writing the show will be because I’m done writing it for the day, and I’m having fun. That’ll be nice.”

The pair are now presently writing the new episodes and with this deal in place it should ensure a more consistent delivery and airing of new episodes.