Rick & Morty is back in the long-awaited season three (re?)premiere. In the episode which premieres tonight, the events of the April Fool’s Day premiere are continued with Beth & Jerry preparing for life after divorce, and Morty & Summer’s own personal struggles to deal with their currently incomplete feeling family.

Rick and Morty is a 2013 animated science fiction comedy series, it is produced by Sono Vanity and distributed by Warner Bros. TV Distribution. Season three premieres July 30, 2017.

Editor’s Note: This review contains near complete to complete spoilers for “Rickmancing the Stone”.

The new adventure trio of Rick, Morty, and Summer return.

Season three’s actual premiere continues almost immediately after the events of the April Fool’s premiere. Beth & Jerry have nearly finalized their divorce, and Jerry is packing up ready to move out. Summer is visibly effected by the divorce while Morty tries to come to terms with it, Rick of course, is being Rick. After the initial opener with the divorce plot the dial is turned up to one hundred with our trio getting involved in a post-apocalyptic world that’s clearly a Mad Max parody.

Those aren’t the Morty & Summer we’re used to.

THE GOOD: Continuing on from the first episode is a great way to provide a more serialized arc for the series, the randomness & silly adventures are still there, but the main plot point for this season is Beth & Jerry’s divorce and how it will effect Summer, Morty, and to a degree Rick. Ever since she began hanging out with Morty & Rick, Summer has received a ton of character development, which is fantastic, the “mean spirited teenage girl” act can only stretch her so far, but it’s good knowing Dan Harmon & co. are able to adapt characters to give them more depth. Morty and even Rick receive a bit of development spread out through the episode.

Rick & Morty go Mad Max.

The Mad Max parody, while done to death in science fiction shows, gets a bit of originality here thanks to Rick bringing in science to the mix. After giving Morty an enormous muscular arm (that ends up having a mind of it’s own) Morty goes on a violent rampage in a gladiator like battle dome, which finally causes him to lash out over his parents divorce, the arm after seeing the person responsible for killing it’s (the owner of the arm) family takes Morty out on a quest for revenge to kill the evil King responsible for it. Summer vents her frustrations over the divorce in an extremely violent barrage of murder & mayhem, and ends up falling in love with the leader of the post-apocalyptic city, meanwhile Rick is attempting to get the stone in the city that acts as an extremely powerful source of energy which could power the wasteland city indefinitely (which it does come episode’s end). There’s a hilarious scene where Rick eventually abandons Morty & Summer to deal with their emotional problems, and replaces them with robots, robot Morty in typical real-Morty fashion, eventually rebels against his programming, only to be shut down anyways.  Poor Jerry, who’ll likely be the star of the season, was mostly ignored by his family gets a bit of spotlight when Summer attempts to reconnect after her own quick marriage falls through.

Tons of character development for Summer & Morty this episode.

THE BAD: It would have been nice to have a bit more foreshadowing on Rick feeling guilty about Beth & Jerry’s divorce, but there’s a small hint of it here.

Morty smash!

OVERALL THOUGHTS: While most of the spotlight in “Rickmancing the Stone” goes to Summer, which was much needed, Rick. Morty, and Jerry get their own moments in the sun, the latter of which will likely be the star of the season. Otaku Dome gives “Rickmancing the Stone” a 90 out of 100.