Welp, we made it. It’s been three years of false starts and dead ends, great character reinventions, lousy character takes, and an awful lot of speculation. What’s even real by this point? Are the continuity discrepancies the writers’ fault or … Continue reading Archer S10 E8/9 “Cubert/Robert De Niro”

The competition for Most Self-Explanatory Plot has been pretty stiff lately, but I think Space Pirates just might clinch it. To be fair, in a whole season of wilfully unoriginal plotlines served straight from the tin, at least this time … Continue reading Archer S10 E7 “Space Pirates”

There doesn’t seem much point in being coy, so I’ll tip my hand right now: these two episodes represent the high and low point of the season so far for me, and since these write-ups have been short on positivity, … Continue reading Archer S10 E5/6 “Mr. Deadly Goes to Town/Road Trip”

Archer S10 E3/4 “The Leftovers/Dining with the Zarglorp” The first two episodes made me worry that the characters were becoming broader and more generic – and I’ll come back to that – but for the second pair even the plots … Continue reading Archer S10 E3/4 “The Leftovers/Dining with the Zarglorp”

If there’s one reason to be pleased that this is Archer’s final season, it’s this: the show has got through ten seasons and no fewer than three reboots (arguably five, depending how you count it), and while some seasons have … Continue reading Archer S10 E1/2 “Bort the Garj/Happy Borthday”

In which Archer discovers the concept of chronology. Perhaps inspired by too many smartasses asking about Archer’s willfully anachronistic timeline, Danger Island has fairly beaten viewers about the head with its historical accuracy – the Messerchmitt is new, the German … Continue reading Archer S9 E8 “A Discovery”

So far I’ve been praising Archer: Danger Island for keeping its story small and tight, without succumbing to the clusterfuck of cross purposes that can mar a series finale. So it’s surprising that with only one more episode to go, … Continue reading Archer S9 E7 “Comparative Wickedness of Civilized and Unenlightened Peoples”

In an early episode of Aisha Tyler’s podcast Girl on Guy, she interviewed show creator Adam Reed, who revealed that one of the rules of Archer is never to “lay pipe.” In other words, every line of dialogue should either … Continue reading Archer S9 E6 “Some Remarks on Cannibalism”

While some might accuse Archer: Dreamland of trying to cram too much in (and I am one of those people, and also phrasing), Archer: Danger Island is pacing itself. With only three episodes left, the story’s taking its sweet time … Continue reading Archer S9 E5 “Strange Doings in the Taboo Groves”

Season nine of Archer, now up to its fourth episode, once again reinvents the show with a new premise, and not only do we have a fresh setting, but perhaps for the first time, a slightly new take on the … Continue reading Archer S9 E4 “A Warrior in Costume”