Summer Follows Through on a Season One Threat in the ‘Rick and Morty’ Season Eight Premiere
Contrary to what Jerry once thought, “do something with turquoise” isn’t code for crystal meth-related activities — it’s something much darker.
In tonight’s Matrix-themed lesson in respecting his stuff.
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Right when things start to go south for adult mind, teen body Summer and her friend/mother Beth/Mom, she heads to a place to which she’s been threatening to runaway since Season One: the Southwest. And, what do you know, Summer is even wearing turquoise in her Santa Fe escape fantasy, fulfilling an 11-year-old threat as Beth learns that there are far greater dangers than jewelry in the Land of Enchantment.
In “Summer of All Fears,” after spending 17 simulated years in Rick’s “Never Take Grandpa’s Phone Charger” Matrix, Summer returns to the real world with the intention of using her extra decade-plus of life experience to “crush it in high school” and maximize her future. And, since she’s now mentally the same age as Beth, Summer strikes up a friendship with her mother that transcends generations — for a time.
Growing dissatisfied with the limitations placed on a 17-year-old, Summer hot-wires a car and flees for New Mexico, where the wellness industry places her in a Zen pottery studio, and, presumably, gives her a complimentary turquoise necklace. Beth tracks down her daughter and convinces Summer to come home and return to her real age, only to find that Santa Fe really does have a way of sucking in lost women, which, considering the pottery teachers all turned out to be literal vampires in the post-credits scene of “Summer of All Fears,” is pretty convenient.
Rick and Morty fans will recall how, in the first Interdimensional Cable episode “Rixty Minutes” back in Season One, Summer, fed up with the dysfunction in her parents’ marriage, threatens to run away to the Southwest with a vague intention of working with the region’s favorite mineral. As it turns out, that desire only grows stronger as Summer ages, which may be a more common and possibly paranormal phenomenon in directionless woman than we realized.
Thankfully, the blue-green luster of Santa Fe didn’t fully ensnare Summer or Beth, otherwise we’d be looking at a vampire arc for the women of Rick and Morty — and you know how the family gets when they turn into night people.
