The seventh season of Adult Swim’s “Rick and Morty” arrived the other day, and with it came a rather unfortunate honor – the lowest scoring season so far (and by far) on Rotten Tomatoes.
The new run is pulling in a 73% (6.3/10) with critics and a dismal 34% with audiences. The previous lowest scorer was the fifth season at 86% critics and 60% audiences.
All other seasons are critically above 90% and audience-wise above 84% with those first three seasons in particular landing near-perfect scores.
Criticism from the critics centers on several creative decisions from the sidelining of Beth and Summer, to an uneven quality though most seem to say it retains all the hallmarks of previous seasons.
Amongst the audience reviews the reaction is sharply divided with a lot of 5-star reviews from hardcore fans, to a bunch of 1-star reviews with a lot of those angry over Justin Roiland’s dismissal.
This marks the first season not to feature Roiland providing any voice work, though he is still credited as co-creator and executive producer. Soundalikes Ian Cardoni and Harry Belden have taken over the Rick and Morty roles.
Only the first two episodes were made available for critics with the second to air tonight. The season runs ten episodes in all with at least three more seasons on the way and work already well underway on the eighth.
