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Aug 29, 2023
IndieWireSep 16, 2020
Season 11 Review:
Luckily, the signature “Archer” connective joke tissue that melds its disparate plots with bookending conversations is as sharp as ever, too. Archer’s jealousy, Cyril’s struggles to command respect, and Cheryl’s turn-ons should be territory so well-trod that no fertile ground would be left. Yet, there’s enough magic in each passing setup that you get a chance to see these from a new angle.
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Feb 3, 2011
Season 2 Review:
Congrats to Bob's Burgers star H. Jon Benjamin, who is now voicing the lead on two of TV's funniest shows. [28 Jan 2011, p.68]
Aug 25, 2023
Season 14 Review:
FXX’s Archer has remained one of the funniest shows on TV over the course of 14 seasons by never losing sight of its strengths even as it finds novel ways to change its characters and their mission. It’s as good as ever in its final season, bringing back vintage gags and delving into entirely new ways to make fun of both action flicks and workplace politics.
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Jan 14, 2013
Mar 4, 2011
Season 2 Review:
In its second season, the spy parody remains my favorite animated series, thanks to its retro visual design--this is a cartoon for the age of Mad Men--and the vicious, dead-aim put-downs that make up most of the dialogue. [14 Mar 2011, p.42]
IndieWireMay 28, 2019
Season 10 Review:
“Archer: 1999” is another strong entry in an ever-developing series. The animation is stunning, as the shortened episode order (eight instead of 10) and release delay (FX has been giving the team an extra month or so for the past three seasons) accommodate brand new set and character designs, not to mention some snazzy VFX during the various space battles. The timing and jokes are still right on point.
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IndieWireMar 30, 2017
Mar 28, 2016
Season 7 Review:
The Case of the Starlet and Her Incendiary Disc is another sign that Archer isn’t losing any ambition with age. Reed and crew made the most of their relaxed production schedule, crafting a picture-postcard L.A. while giving the Figgis offices that “second floor of Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce” sheen.
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Sep 5, 2023
Season 14 Review:
We’re not investing in the stakes of the missions Archer and the team take on. We’re investing in all of the goofs, crass moments, and self-involved absurdities that come along with it. That’s what was funny in 2009, and it’s funny in 2023 as Archer prepares to shut it all down.
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The Daily BeastAug 31, 2023
Season 14 Review:
Whether it came to writing shocking jokes or trying to find fresh ways to reinvent itself, Archer was always dauntless. But its final season manages to straddle those lines in a fashion as proficient as its titular spy has always claimed to be. It’ll be tough to bid Archer adieu, but like he always said to his colleagues, there will never be another spy who can do quite what he does.
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May 28, 2019
Season 10 Review:
These are still the same characters we've laughed with dressed in other people’s movie clothes, save for Pam Poovey (Amber Nash), who is literally built like a rock in this 10th season. This just goes to prove that the best TV delights can put on any old clothing; as long as they remain true to the core of what makes us adore them, we’ll keep our eyes on them.
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Apr 5, 2017
Season 8 Review:
This season of Archer has a great look: this cartoon version of film noir features richly dark blues, greens, and black, and the pacing has the hypnotic pull of a dream turning into a nightmare. Of course, this being Archer, it’s also loaded with lots of double- and single-entendres, and energetic vulgarity.
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Jan 8, 2015
Season 6 Review:
Adam Reed--creator, showrunner, voice actor, and writer--seems to have composed Archer both as a love letter to douchebags and as a set of instructions for destroying them. Having a baby might be the final nail in the coffin. Then again, maybe not; Sterling’s the resilient type.
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Feb 3, 2011
Season 2 Review:
The other six episodes I've seen have their ups and downs, but that's kind of the nature of the beast with comedies that push the outer edge of the envelope of taste and common decency; their batting average will be lower than their comedy peers, but their slugging percentage will be higher.
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Season 1 Review:
The first episode is, maybe to grab the young-guy audience, heavier on the sexplay and lighter on the laughs. But two or three episodes in, the characters and dynamics come together, and the show really begins to kill. Literally and figuratively, but mostly figuratively.
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Season 1 Review:
While the show's humor can be raunchy or even cruel, the voice work is pure unruffled deadpan. [18 Jan 2010, p.42]
RogerEbert.comMay 28, 2019
Season 10 Review:
The four episodes don’t crackle with the wit that was in “Dreamland” or the playfulness of “Danger Island” or “Vice.” The writing just doesn’t feel as sharp as it once did, although I’ve only seen a small percentage of the season, and even that sampling had some laughs, if not the standard batting average of the overall series.
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Season 1 Review:
Archer may be crude but it's far more clever than last fall's disappointing "Testees," and "Archer" wins points with its observational humor about modern life and in its mocking of mundane workplace minutiae, such as computer passwords and the lack of security at a spy agency.
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Apr 24, 2018ColliderMay 29, 2019
Season 10 Review:
My only gripe with Archer: 1999 is that there’s no bigger plot to the season; it’s just a collection of episodes that are loosely tied together through the space-travel setup. So while it was fun to watch the crew track down a xenomorph, battle in space gladiator combat, get addicted to psychotropic alien eggs, and fight their way out of a celestial mollusk, I wish they had some greater goal in mind.
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ColliderMar 31, 2016
Season 7 Review:
Archer is consistently in the moment and garners many of its still plentiful laughs by focusing on the immediacy of the world that Reed has created, a world where a former spy and new father can find himself fighting terminators and robbing high-scale L.A. lawyers while also tangling with Oedipal urges and an ego that, after seven seasons, isn’t even close to settling down.
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