Ranking Every Episode of “Rick and Morty” Season Four From Worst To Best
It’s ominous, oddly-specific title got my hopes up, and while I was not disappointed, I certainly wasn’t blown away either, mostly because the episode seems to have been Frankensteined together out of two separate, previously trashed projects. Although the vat was a clever way to finish off Morty’s little lesson in accepting responsibility, I cannot help but wish it bore a greater thematic resemblance to the save-your-place-like-in-a-video-game device that Rick built for him toward the end of the first act. The way I see it, The Vat of Acid Episode is the epitome of what season four is all about, which is creator Dan Harmon’s attempt to let go of his self-destructive perfectionism and accept the fact that not every story he makes has to fit together with the precision of a Swiss watch. Of course, that’s all nice and well, but a Swiss watch is still better than a non-Swiss one.
There's got to be some kind of twist that's going to happen with this. I don't know if they're setting up an April Fool's joke now or what's going on, but it seems too strange that they'd suddenly reverse on doing a fourth and fifth season after the show was already renewed and they were even just talking about working on those seasons like a couple months ago or something. Or maybe the two episodes yet to release will secretly somehow each be like a "season" in themselves?