Archer

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Season 5
  • Network: FX , FXX
  • Series Premiere Date: Sep 17, 2009
Season #: 14, 13, 12, 11, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1
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8.1

Universal acclaim- based on 123 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 104 out of 123
  2. Mixed: 8 out of 123
  3. Negative: 11 out of 123
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  1. jeffreybar
    Apr 14, 2014
    1
    Holy crap Archer got terrible fast. What the hell happened? Season 4 was great. Season 5 is suddenly awful, and consistently unfunny. Why the lame change to "Archer Vice" and why ditch the well-crafted jokes and plot twists for tired action tropes?
  2. ozymandias79
    Mar 7, 2014
    0
    What happened to Archer? I think I've laughed two or three times so far (six episodes!), not at all during the last episode. The next episode is the decider whether to stop watching this season.
  3. dillonvs
    Feb 23, 2014
    2
    I loved the first few seasons of Archer, but like other FX comedies (see "Always Sunny"), it seems to have transitioned almost overnight from fresh and funny to old and tired. Even the pop culture references have become forced and "lol, so random."
  4. Yester
    Jan 18, 2020
    3
    I'm halfway through the season and I have not ben entertain one bit. There are too many good shows around to continue this unfunny mess.
  5. DrBAMF_PhD_MMT
    Sep 25, 2022
    1
    Wow. This is easily the worst, and in fact, only genuinely bad season of Archer. I might be a bit biased, as I love spy shows and HATE drug shows/movies/games or really media about drugs of any kind, but It seems so obviously inferior to all the seasons before and after it that I had to write a review. For one, its not funny, at all, and when on the rare occasion that it does approachWow. This is easily the worst, and in fact, only genuinely bad season of Archer. I might be a bit biased, as I love spy shows and HATE drug shows/movies/games or really media about drugs of any kind, but It seems so obviously inferior to all the seasons before and after it that I had to write a review. For one, its not funny, at all, and when on the rare occasion that it does approach humor, its only when they abandon the drug premise to focus on cheryl's inexplicable country music career.

    The drug side of things is painfully shoehorned into their world and completely rejects not only the basic premise of the show but all the built-up character arc and continuity from the entire show, dumping all the secondary side characters and turning the main characters into stupid caricatures of themselves that aren't funny, interesting or even sensible.

    Despite reviewing this years after it's release, I actually did see it when it was new. I was a fan of Archer from season 1 and it just got better and better until season 5. Despite the stupid ending of 4 (which did not bode well for 5) I watched it when it was new. It was SO BAD that I quit the show entirely and didn't come back to it until just now, which is a shame because the seasons that come AFTER 5 are amazing, and almost as good as the first 4. This makes me hate season 5 even more, knowing that its decrepit stupidity denied me the goodness of the rest of the show for 8 years!

    To anyone enjoying Archer for the first time who sees this review, do yourself a great favor, ignore the nonsensical positive reviews (probably people who can't admit how awful this season is because they love the rest) and just skip this awful waste of time. It does actually get slightly better near the end, but in no way is it at all worth the boredom and annoyance needed to get to that point. Besides, season 6 immediately retcons season 5 out of existence in the first episode, so you are literally not missing anything by skipping directly from 4 to 6    … Expand

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Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 3
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 3
  3. Negative: 0 out of 3
  1. Under The Radar
    Reviewed by: Jim Scott
    Jan 28, 2014
    70
    There was a certain circuitousness to the plotlines that Archer Vice not only interrupts, but short-circuits completely.
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  2. PopMatters
    Reviewed by: Michael Ward
    Jan 13, 2014
    80
    Archer‘s affection for character and craft makes it more likely to be remembered as one of the great TV shows of our time, and not just another dirty cartoon.
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  3. The A.V. Club
    Reviewed by: David Sims
    Jan 13, 2014
    91
    The show is getting rebooted for its fifth season, and it’s quickly clear what a good idea that is.
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