OT: "Archer" 14th & Final Season Premieres W 8/30 @ 10 PM ET
Any Archer fans out there? The spy (and other genres) spoof is ending. A couple episodes air on Wednesday on FXX with a single weekly episode to follow.
Lana Kane is running the Agency. Zara Khan (Natalie Dew) is a new character.
Was bummed that Jessica Walter died a few years ago. She was great as Malory Archer.
Will they still be doing phrasing?
August 25th, 2023 at 10:04 PM ^
M as in Mancy
August 25th, 2023 at 10:04 PM ^
The End as the opening song for Apocalypse Now is one of the best opening songs ever for a movie.
August 25th, 2023 at 11:25 PM ^
August 25th, 2023 at 10:07 PM ^
Is this show worth watching? I tried watching the first season about ten years ago and couldn’t get into it. Can’t remember the exact reasons why but I do remember feeling like I didn’t “get” a lot of the humor. I remember thinking 1-2 episodes were really funny, but then it felt like every other episode was a massive inside joke that I wasn’t in on.
I love other stuff that comedies F/X puts out there. It’s Always Sunny, What We Do In The Shadows, etc. wondering if I should just give this another go.
August 25th, 2023 at 10:10 PM ^
I could watch the first 4-5 seasons forever. It's really well done. After that it seems to have lost its way.
August 25th, 2023 at 10:49 PM ^
The first 4-5 seasons were some of the funniest entertainment I've ever seen. I agree that last few have not been at the same level. I still got excited when I heard there was a new season.
IASIP and WWDITS are hilarious as well. For WWDITS fans the Toast of London with Matt Berry on Netflix is an acquired taste, but if it hits you right you won't stop laughing.
Audio guy: "Steven, this is Clem Fandango."
Steven Toast: "I know WHO YOU ARE!"
August 25th, 2023 at 11:19 PM ^
I get a ton of replay value out of seasons 3 and 4. I can both laugh and get some foreign language listening practice with "El Contador", "Lo Scandalo", "Coyote Lovely", and "The Papal Chase".
August 26th, 2023 at 1:38 PM ^
the clem fandango stuff makes me laugh every single time.
August 25th, 2023 at 10:31 PM ^
YMMV. I've enjoyed it, though when they got away from spy spoofing, it was uneven.
August 26th, 2023 at 3:18 AM ^
Exactly. When Adam Reed wrote everything, it was fucking hilarious. Callback humor, clever dialogue, solid plots, and enough depth to keep things interesting. The Bourdain episode is one of my favorite pieces of TV, period.
Now, it's so uneven. Some newer episodes are great, but many are not and the overall plot arch is lacking, plus it's really missing the presence of Jessica Walter.
Like the last season it felt like nothing they did mattered. First they're in a corporate convention, then they get dropped in a jungle, then this multinational spy conglomerate has nobody that can work on Saturday, then they're fighting a Swiss commando team for a device of dubious threat to national security, and so on...
It really feels like the post-coma episodes were written by different people (which they were) at different times, with different levels of input by Reed. The show went from having rival spy agencies and governments and terrorist cells as antagonists to the main problems being... workplace bureaucracy and childcare? Oh no, Archer's therapist that is never mentioned in any other episode is out of network, guess she's gotta die?
It's a bummer. I've been a fan of Reed and Matt Thompson since the days of Sealab (which was fodder for fantastic crossover episodes in Sea Tunt) but it just genuinely seems like they're either bored of Archer (the reason Reed diverted the show away from being a spy comedy in the first place) or they just don't care as much about it.
There's a whole character arc about the wee baby Seamus (now a teenager, ostensibly), and then he just disappeared from the show totally after being born despite Trinette making a reappearance? Where's lettuce-ass Len Trexler? Where's Katya and her hilariously stupid KGB boyfriend? Where's Dicky?
Like, fuck guys. Just quit and finish Frisky Dingo if you're bored. The space season was the worst.
August 26th, 2023 at 2:34 PM ^
Frisky Dingo was a personal fav back in the day. Still kills me when I go back and rewatch every few years
August 26th, 2023 at 6:00 PM ^
Think ya could, think ya could, think you could bench press a Scion?
August 25th, 2023 at 11:36 PM ^
I once dated Pam Poovey’s doppelgänger.
August 26th, 2023 at 12:03 AM ^
I married her 😍
August 26th, 2023 at 2:07 AM ^
It definitely has fallen off in the last like 7 ish seasons but I still find a lot of moments funny. I think the last couple seasons have been better. Those first few seasons were amazing though.
I'm definitely excited for the new season and it's sad it's coming to an end. Forever and always, phrasing!
August 26th, 2023 at 9:01 AM ^
Is it wrong that I got all tingly in my man parts at the sight of Lana Kane in that show?
August 26th, 2023 at 2:52 PM ^
I found the irreverent bickering between Archer and his mother to be most entertaining. Jessica Walter is something special. While not exactly family television I don't recall any episodes that crossed the line.
I also felt the same way about Trial and Error with John Lithgow and Christine Chenowith as season guest stars. Humor was very edgy.