"Rick and Morty" Season 8 is here, and it's sounds like just the latest batch of episodes we'll be enjoying in the years to come. While there might've been a time when the Adult Swim series was considering an endpoint, creator Dan Harmon and showrunner Scott Marder confirmed to CinemaBlend there's no end in sight (currently) for the sci-fi animated series, and gave me a good reason why.
I had a chance to talk to Harmon and Marder ahead of the arrival of the new season and asked about whether they've ever considered an "endgame" for "Rick and Morty." There might have been a point that was in the cards when the series was more serialized, but the show's massive popularity has led to them getting the greenlight to make new seasons indefinitely.
00:00It's almost like out of our hands. My feeling is that if we started bothering, if we if we now went like, let's take a bow and finish on top, I think the unspoken answer to that would be like, on top of what?
00:13You're already like a wallpaper, you know, a fixture. I think our job is to us playing the game properly is to just see if we can set a record for distance and find joy every single episode.
00:31Because I don't know what ribbon we would get from what committee for having the restraint and bravery to after all we've done and been through to go like in season 13, like, let's face it.
00:44But I can say, look, if it's fatigue, if the show starts to suck and we go like, look, the show sucks now, let's stop making it.
00:51That would be a different kind of fine. Great. Here's your award for honesty and self-awareness or whatever.
00:56But but I think that in a world where I like hit show that has a plan for an ending and does a graceful, wonderful ending.
01:07I mean, those shows get to, you know, they're like eight episodes long, six to two seasons.
01:13And so we're in this opposite stratosphere where it's almost like we're obligated to do the opposite, like to be the last.
01:20We're like the grandfathered into this old school TV model.
01:23And I feel like we should be like Robert Altman, who, like, I think died on the set, like calling action, like that.
01:31There's a here that that's the other form of craft and heroism is you just go like we're doing this.
01:36We're doing this until you make us stop that because it's that kind of show.
01:41Yeah. Ending has not been in the conversation.
01:43Like if there really were fatigue and it felt like creatively we were starting to bang our heads against the wall.
01:49Maybe there would be chatter, but like internally, I can tell you that the show is still breaking as smooth and fun and like effortlessly through 10 as it was in the early days that like I just don't see an end in sight right now, which is super exciting.
