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The fourth season of Rick and Morty on HBO Max was my binge this afternoon.

I am going to be honest here. I think there were some real high highs in this season of ten episodes, but also a few episode that I found to be lower than normal.

While there are several episodes that I did not love, there were still some really funny moments within these episodes. There were no truly horrible episodes in the season. I would just say that some of the shows were just not as strong of overall stories as they could have been.

The episodes that I did not like much were “One Crew Over the Crewcoo’s Morty,” “The Old Man and the Seat,” “Claw and Hoarder: Special Ricktim’s Morty,” and “Rattlestar Ricklactica.”

My favorite parts of the season for me were the following: the return to the Beth’s clone story from last season. I loved the episode of “The Vat of Acid Episode” which may have been the darkest of the entire series. The Rick clones across the multiverse were fun in the season premiere. The remarkably meta and fourth wall breaking episode “Never Ricking Morty” was awesome, even with the guest star role for Jesus Christ. Rick fights Zeus. They had a Covid-19 joke as well that was very funny.

It did seem like the second half of season four was considerably better for me than the beginning of this season.

Guest stars for the season included Sherri Shepherd, Sam Neill, Kathleen Turner, Taika Waititi, Jeffrey Wright, Pamela Adlon, Elon Musk, Justin Theroux, Claudia Black, Matthew Broderick, Liam Cunningham,Keegan-Michael Key, Eddie Pepitone, Paul Giamatti, Christopher Meloni, Susan Sarandon, David Herman, Chelsea Peretti, Harland Williams, Grey DeLisle, Natasha Leggero, Jake Johnson, Lauren Lapkus and Nat Faxon.