After seven seasons, a couple of video games, a stack of comics, an official D&D tie-in set, and an actual series of events that culminated in people going wild in the real-life physical fast food restaurant McDonald's over revived sauce, the animated series Rick and Morty likely needs no introduction. And season 8, which premieres May 25 on Adult Swim, is more Rick and Morty for better or worse.
That's not to say the new season is in any way bad. Having seen four episodes of Rick and Morty season 8 – "Summer of All Fears," "The Rick, The Mort & The Ugly," "The Last Temptation of Jerry," and "Cryo Mort a Rickver" – the folks making the show are still putting out great work from the writing to the voice actors to the animation. But it also falls into a trap that Rick and Morty's previous success has set for itself.
