(Mercifully, this one did not involve any giving birth to dozens of wasp hybrids from their exploding skull.)Īnd just as last season debuted in the wake of the premiere of “Solar Opposites,” Season 5 arrives in the immediate wake of “Loki,” another project led by a “Rick and Morty” alum. It’s a nice little inversion of the final result, even if the paths to get there were markedly different. Just as Season 4 began with Morty trying to guarantee a life with Jessica and ending up with the ability to see all possible given outcomes, Season 5 begins with Morty trying to guarantee a happy night with Jessica and her ending up with the ability to conceive the fullness of spacetime. Everyone has clear objectives for this whole episode, none of which get lost in the millennia’s worth of evolution and destruction happening over the course of the night on the other side of the portal. Nimbus gives the show a chance to add a wrinkle to their relationship that goes beyond his incompetence and her frustration), there really isn’t a part of this episode that drags. Threading together a trio of storylines (Beth and Jerry prepping for a night of passion with Mr. “Mort Dinner Rick Andre” may not have the high highs of snake assassins or story trains, but this is as steady and consistent as “Rick and Morty” has been in a while. It’s a welcome regrouping for the show, which last season seesawed between uninspired genre parodies and giant episode swings that built out entire universes in mere minutes. Of course, that plan goes sideways awfully quick, as some mistakes in shepherding the wine between worlds inadvertently spiral into the death of a helper, some fast-forwarding shenanigans, the creation of a portal-worshipping cult, and the hypercharged arrival of the singularity. Nimbus, Rick sets up a scheme to age wine in an alternate dimension where time travels much faster: Stash a few bottles on a farm across the rift for a few minutes and come back with drink worthy of a Sea Lord nemesis.

A kind of Atlantean mind manipulator bent on controlling more than just life under the ocean, his sudden presence throws off Morty’s date plans and sets a temporal comedy of errors in motion. Nimbus (another in a growing list of Rick foils voiced by series co-creator Dan Harmon). When they arrive for what they assume will be a peaceful night of romance and recuperation at the Smith household, they find their evenings ruined in multiple ways by the arrival of Mr. The power of potential love calls back Morty from the brink, saving him and Rick from a certain fiery death (and cures his black eye by the time the two have made their way home from the crash).

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But just when all hope seems lost mere minutes into a new season, Morty gets a call from his permacrush Jessica, asking if he’d like to hang out that night.

At first it seems like the pair are doomed, with Morty piloting a ship through Earth re-entry minus a steering wheel and some functioning heat shields. It starts with a familiar “Rick and Morty” opening: dropping everyone in the middle of an escape from some unexplained mess that the two are barely going to survive. Still, as a jump-start to a new season, there’s enough in this time-jumping kickoff to make it feel like much more than a formula. After months away, “Rick and Morty” makes a return with plenty of the show’s hallmarks. As far as season premiere traditions go, “title character’s hopeless feelings leads him down interdimensional path that ends up with him or his crush absorbing all knowledge of existence” is a good one to stick to.

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