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- FX
- Jan 13, 2014
- FX
- Jan 13, 2014
Summary Archer is an animated, half-hour comedy set at the International Secret Intelligence Service (ISIS), a spy agency where espionage and global crises are merely opportunities for its highly trained employees to confuse, undermine, betray and royally mess up together.
Created By: Adam Reed
- FX
- Jan 13, 2014
- FX
- Jan 13, 2014
Archer
Season 5
15 Seasons
Season Premiere: Jan 13, 2014
Metascore
Available after 4 critic reviews
8.1
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Summary Archer is an animated, half-hour comedy set at the International Secret Intelligence Service (ISIS), a spy agency where espionage and global crises are merely opportunities for its highly trained employees to confuse, undermine, betray and royally mess up together.
Created By: Adam Reed
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15 Seasons
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The show is getting rebooted for its fifth season, and it’s quickly clear what a good idea that is.
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.
User Score
Universal Acclaim
Based on 124 User Ratings
8.1
85% Positive
105 Ratings
105 Ratings
6% Mixed
8 Ratings
8 Ratings
9% Negative
11 Ratings
11 Ratings
User Score
Universal Acclaim
Based on 124 User Ratings
8.1
85% Positive
105 Ratings
105 Ratings
6% Mixed
8 Ratings
8 Ratings
9% Negative
11 Ratings
11 Ratings
The change in plot has created more situations of pure comedy. Same Archer in new situations. This is one of my favorite seasons of Archer, and it's still the funniest animated show.
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SEASON 5
I don't think I'm in the traditional Archer demographic, but I am completely in love with this series that just keeps on ratcheting up the brilliance. Krieger, Pam, Cherlene have radically and hilariously transformed, and still feel consistent to their personalities. Archer's continued almost innocent narcissistic elitist **** is perfect. Not crazy about the new palette for opening titles, but it does evoke the Miami Vice postmodern pink, teal, tropical color scheme. The sets are exquisitely and hilariously rendered as they deconstruct the notion of retro, pulling from several decades simultaneously. Obscure references continue to instruct and **** timing of the cast is spot on. Loved the last episode's Breakfast Club bit (Mallory: "Now you're just spouting random words" (not verbatim). & Fred Armisen is predictably fabulous. I imagine many find this show bad for the kids, deeply profane. I just love it and Bob's Burgers, and find them Macintosh innovative compared to the mass produced Windows-like, endless McFarlane shtick. Total 10 for this girl.
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SEASON 5
There was a certain circuitousness to the plotlines that Archer Vice not only interrupts, but short-circuits completely.
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 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 **** 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
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SEASON 5
