Rick and Morty’s experiences will continue in season 5, but when will the series return – and where will the multiverse take these?
Rick and Morty season 4 could be over, but thanks to an epic episode order from Adult Swim, fans may look forward to seeing season 5 and a few more seasons beyond that. Created by Dan Harmon and Justin Roiland, the animated series follows the experiences of caustic genius scientist Rick Sanchez and his worried grandson Morty Smith as they travel across the multiverse.
Season 4 has been divided into 2 halves of five episodes every day, which saw Rick and Morty engage in a set of rapidly escalating heists, invest an uncomfortable quantity of time in a vat of acid, also create and destroy an entire civilization in the space of a week. To put it differently, it was a season that is fairly typical.
Considering that the show’s addictive blend of extremely dark humor and high-concept science fiction, Rick and Morty fans will be keen to see that the duo (and occasionally Summer, and sometimes Beth, but never Jerry) return for more experiences. Here is what we know so far about what to expect from Rick and Morty season 5.
At an attractive and welcome movement, Adult Swim gave the green light for an additional 70 episodes of Rick and Morty after season 3, meaning that Harmon and Roiland are still clear for another 60 episodes. Assuming that each forthcoming season is ten episodes, such as the past three seasons have been, that means that Rick and Morty have been revived up to year 10. Needless to say, it will be a while before fans have to worry about the safety of the future of this show.
Less certain than Rick and Morty’s future is now 5’s premiere date. The launch schedule of the show has been quite sporadic and subject to hiatuses. Rick and Morty’s founders said in 2018 that by season 4 onwards there will no longer be any lengthy fractures between seasons, but it remains to be seen how the show’s production will be impacted by the coronavirus pandemic. The cartoon is easier to continue than filming a show but things can slow down. Optimistically, we could anticipate Rick and Morty season 5 premiering at overdue 2020.
Rick and Morty season 4 wrapped up with the show that Rick had cloned Beth and delivered among those Beths off to space to become an adventurer. Since Rick randomized that variant of Beth went into space, there is no means of knowing which one of them is the clone. The two Beths do manage to reconcile at the end of the episode, and it looks like Space Beth will stick around for 5. Phoenixperson is stashed in bits in Rick’s workshop and returned.
Each season of Rick and Morty generally saves ongoing storylines for the first or last incident, with stand-alone experiences in between. The end of season 4 has shifted the status quo somewhat with the return of Space Beth, but maybe not getting thrown in prison-like he did at the end of season 2. Rick and Morty season 5 will probably jump back into random experiences – and possibly even bring back another long-missing personality: Evil Morty.