Rick & Morty: Season 3

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Rick And Morty

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Season Details & Credits

Cartoon Network | Adult Swim | Season Premiere Date: April 1, 2017

Starring: Sarah Chalke, Sarah Chalke, Clancy Brown

Summary: Rick & Morty is an animated series that follows the exploits of an old genius and his dimwitted grandson. Based on "The Real Animated Adventures of Doc and Maharti" the show was created by Dan Harmon (writer, Community) and Justin Roiland.

Creator: Dan Harmon and Justin Roiland and Anthony Alfonso

Genre(s): Comedy, Animation, Action & Adventure, Fantasy, Science

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Season 3 Episodes

7.5
S3:E10. The Rickchurian Mortydate
Air Date: October 1, 2017
6.8
S3:E9. The ABC's of Beth
Air Date: September 24, 2017
9.0
S3:E8. Morty's Mind Blowers
Air Date: September 17, 2017

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Matt Zoller Seitz

Jul 31, 2017

The series is shockingly funny, even when it goes into dark/disturbing mode, but moments like these confirmed that there was more going on than a bawdy, violent, nihilistically hilarious riff on science-fiction clichés and scientific principles, built around a character who’s like the Doctor reimagined by Armando Iannucci. ... Rick and Morty has always been one of wildest shows on TV. It’s time to admit that it’s also one of the best. Read full review

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100tifiko

Jan 2, 2018

Esta serie es realmente magnifica y lo sigue siendo en esta 3ra temporada, que me ha gustado mas que las 2 anteriores, porque esta temporada, a diferencia de las otras, va a más, sobrepasa un limite que no era sobrepasado antes, es al mismo tiempo divertida y profunda, de las mejores seriesEsta serie es realmente magnifica y lo sigue siendo en esta 3ra temporada, que me ha gustado mas que las 2 anteriores, porque esta temporada, a diferencia de las otras, va a más, sobrepasa un limite que no era sobrepasado antes, es al mismo tiempo divertida y profunda, de las mejores series animadas ahi fuera.… Expand

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Arsalan99

Nov 9, 2018

One of the best TV series ever. Easily the best animated show of this decade.
Definitely recommended.

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edwardgonzalez

Apr 21, 2017

I don't know much about animation but god, this show is truly one of the best animated ones out there, the complexity of the characters and the writing make this show an amazing one for entertainment and analysis, it has it all.

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ComandanteCobra

Mar 22, 2018

One of the reason to subscribe to Netflix. Rick and Morty are still fun in season 3.
Tons of movie sci-fi references and ... Pickle Rick!!

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NZAnimeManga

Sep 7, 2017

Great, but not ricktacular. It's a shame, the writing of seasons 1-2 was top notch, 10/10 - hands down, but this season? We're currently 6 episodes in and the writing feels "off". It's Rick and Morty, but not to the same calibre as we saw in the previous two seasons. Honestly, the onlyGreat, but not ricktacular. It's a shame, the writing of seasons 1-2 was top notch, 10/10 - hands down, but this season? We're currently 6 episodes in and the writing feels "off". It's Rick and Morty, but not to the same calibre as we saw in the previous two seasons. Honestly, the only "classic Rick and Morty" episode that we have got so far in season 3, was Episode 1. Episodes 2-6 have been a bit, "meh".… Expand

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Jarvis

Oct 2, 2017

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I'm starting to worry that this is the beginning of the end for this series. With the season finale airing last night, We can look back on this season and ask ourselves weather or not this was really worth the wait, and I'm not sure if I can say it was. Now I'm not a long running fan of the show, I was brought in by the April fools day preview, and I watched the first two seasons in the time it took for adult swim to finish up season three. And while I may not have the longest relationship with this show, I can easily agree with the many people who considered the first two seasons of the show some of the best modern television. But that can't be said about season three. Due to a variety of reasons, this season has been the epitome of all of this series' flaws.

Season three had the set goal of being decidedly darker than the previous two, and yet there is no logical reason for this to be the case. (Mild spoilers in this paragraph.) The first episode ends with Jerry and Beth getting a divorce, and while early episodes deal with this topic, the rest of this season is just edgy and dark for no discernible reason. The design philosophy the writing staff has gone for is to just add an uncomfortable moral in every episode, and usually kill off an unnamed kid every now and then just to make you feel sad for a bit. This series has gone from using dark themes for the sake of story telling, to using dark themes to be edgy and rebellious, which leads me to my next topic.

This series has been praised for being unique, and different, and the folks at adult swim have turned that quality from a feat on behalf of their writers, to a bureaucratic business model, where the story isn't written with the intention of being a good story, it's written with the intention of being different, which leads to all sorts of infuriating, and poorly thrown together plot points. Now, the way the last season ended on a cliffhanger, it seemed like the show was finally gearing up for a much larger scale story, but this seemingly season long arc essentially became a two part episode. But that's not terrible, as long as the series is still able to keep providing a good story, then that is forgivable, but... about that.... That whole "We must be different" philosophy has torn apart every remotely interesting part of the series canon. Plot points which seemed like they would matter are thrown aside and ignored in exchange for meaningless episodes with no substance. The series has always liked trolling the audience a bit, but this season reaches a new milestone, featuring some of the most deceptive, misleading, and downright disappointing moments in franchise history. a few bait and switch moments were more entertaining than what was promised, but most of it just came down to showing you something much better, and then giving you nothing.

An issue that has only been a mild deterrence in the past has become a major problem with season three, and that issue is just how much of an overpowered main character rick is. Now, it has always been part of Ricks character dynamic that he can do anything as long as he wants to, but that has gone from an interesting idea to a drama destroying plot device. Rick always wins, and It gets boring seeing him always know the answer to every question, and never being at a loss. Hell, he is even referred to as a god at some points in this season because of just how unstoppable they made him. And Ricks invulnerability isn't just limited to perilous situations, the writers also make sure that he is never wrong about anything either. Even when committing literal murder the series still insists he was right because the people he murdered were "stupid". as previously mentioned, this season is only different so adult swim can market it as different, and part of this artificial innovation is how morality goes from being questioned to frequently being labeled as wrong. This series has gone from exploring the idea of nihilism to embracing it, and forcing it on you, the viewer, with almost every episode having a moral involving how **** life is, and how you're only a "smart person" if you accept that your actions don't matter. It's essentially just a trip to 4 chan but with animation.

And finally, there's just the quality of the episodes themselves this season. Too much of the season was hit or miss. While on one hand, there are two stand out episodes this season which are just some of the best in the series as a whole, There are three clunkers. Especially "Vindicators 3", which is so abysmal it might just be one of the worst cartoons I've ever seen, in this series or otherwise. The other two bad episodes are just poorly written and flawed, and on top of all that, the episodes which aren't amazing or terrible are just okay. Not nearly the quality of seasons one and two.
Every successful TV show eventually hits a wall where it can't keep on going, and I fear this show has hit it's wall very early.… Expand

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thelettere

May 13, 2019

1 star for the one good episode, ironically featuring a character who basically has been kicked off the show. I enjoyed the first season and much of the second, but a large part of what made it enjoyable was the dynamic between the characters - which gets completely destroyed this time1 star for the one good episode, ironically featuring a character who basically has been kicked off the show. I enjoyed the first season and much of the second, but a large part of what made it enjoyable was the dynamic between the characters - which gets completely destroyed this time around. Suddenly everyone turns into a min-Rick, which is just not interesting. Just as a great sports team requires role players to do the "dirty work" - the thankless but necessary tasks essential for success - so too does a show need "normal" characters to ground the narrative and provide a foil for the "star" (i.e. Rick). So the innocent, anxious and not particularly intelligent Morty, the cynical but good-hearted slave-to-trends Summer, and the ol' parental unit - ambitious but feeling-boxed-in-by-her-marriage/family Beth and trying-too-hard and not-too-bright Jerry provide fodder for Rick to play with and against.

But now, in our everyone-must-be-special age, "role players" are no longer allowed. Every character must get their own episode, in which they do things completely alien to just about everything we know about them, and the hard work of making it believable is completely absent. You get a picture of a bunch of bored writers in a room taking turns saying "wouldn't it be cool if..." rather than systemically thinking through the organic evolution of the characters (or non-evolution, as the case may be).

And the result is that immersion becomes impossible as the seams in the story show themselves, and various stereotypical agendas of the writers become clear. We are not listening to Rick and Morty speak, but rather California liberals who took their instruction at Pomona far too seriously.… Expand

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Seasons & Episodes

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Series Overview
Season 4

84
- Season 4 Overview
  Air Date: November 10, 2019
Season 3

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- Season 3 Overview
  Air Date: April 1, 2017
- 7.5
  S3:E10. The Rickchurian Mortydate
  Air Date: October 1, 2017
- 6.8
  S3:E9. The ABC's of Beth
  Air Date: September 24, 2017
- 9.0
  S3:E8. Morty's Mind Blowers
  Air Date: September 17, 2017
- 9.9
  S3:E7. The Ricklantis Mixup
  Air Date: September 10, 2017
- 9.2
  S3:E6. Rest and Ricklaxation
  Air Date: August 27, 2017
- 7.8
  S3:E5. The Whirly Dirly Conspiracy
  Air Date: August 20, 2017
- 8.8
  S3:E4. Vindicators 3: The Return of Worldender
  Air Date: August 13, 2017
- 9.2
  S3:E3. Pickle Rick
  Air Date: August 6, 2017
- 7.7
  S3:E2. Rickmancing the Stone
  Air Date: July 30, 2017
- 9.4
  S3:E1. The Rickshank Rickdemption
  Air Date: April 1, 2017
Season 2

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- Season 2 Overview
  Air Date: July 26, 2015
Season 1

85
- Season 1 Overview
  Air Date: December 2, 2013