Archer

Archer is probably the greatest thing to happen to Late night Tv since networks decided to extend their broadcasting day until 9 PM on weekdays an 11Pm on Saturdays.

The show follows the exploits of a dysfunctional spy agency that goes by the name of ISIS and its 30 something-year-old perpetual Man child main character that only seems to have a job because his Mother owns the agency he works for. The comedic element of the show follows the idea that even though Archer and his comrades at ISIS may seem to be retarded and only capable of fucking up everything they touch because of their group ineptitude, they are capable of pulling together and getting the job done when needed.

During season 6 of Archer, creators of the show dropped the word ISIS from their show believing that people might confuse their make believe spy agency ISIS with the Jihad Joe brand of ISIS. Like most people trying to avoid butthurt from parents' groups or getting blown up by offended Jihadists, the creators of Archer decided that it would be an all around better move to drop the word ISIS from all new episodes being made and to take the show in other directions that have the characters perforing other roles in show such as their becoming 1980s style, Miami Vice inspired drug dealers.

History

The origins of Archer and his mother

Archer is proof of and shows that no many how times you step up to the plate and strike out,there is always that one good chance that you can still walk up to the plate and hit one straight out of the park. Before You take this as some sort of life lesson and puff up your chest to mumble, "It's just a matter of time." This refers only to people who went to school and have jobs, not basement dwelling idiots that are convinced success is a matter of time and doesn't come from someone's own making.

Archer was conceived shortly after Adult Swim informed Adam Reed that his then show on Adult Swim, Frisky Dingo was an embarrassment to the network and was going to be canceled for more Tim & Eric shows.

Like any good writer that has tasted failure, Adam Reed decided to revise his work and rework it. Instead of having a show about a retarded rich guy that wants to be a Superhero, Reed reworked Frisky Dingo into a story about an somewhat competant and functionally autistic mama's boy that is an international spy.

The way to look at Archer is to imagine Killface's son, Simon, from Frisky Dingo all of a sudden taking advantage of his father's position as a world class villain, along with his wealth, so he can bed down foreign hotties on his dad's credit card every other episode.

Plot

Although Archer represents itself as a James Bond style espionage/action show, it is really no differant from a sitcom like the The Cosby Show, Friends or Seinfield in that its plot is dependent on the interaction of the characters with regards to the situations they are in rather than being placed in a situation and trying to resolve it.

The first four seasons revolved around the spy angle and following such par for the course ideas like espionage, assination or retrieving data - such as the time the Main character of Archer was sent to a southeast Azn jungle to retrieve a computer from a downed fighter jet and 90% of the episode revolved around Archer coming across a 60 some year old soldier from World War II Japan and Archer trying to convince him that the war is over and Japan lost. On tge other side, like all good sitcoms, the moral of tge episodes lies with the Japanese character teaching Archer tge importance of Family after the Japanese soldier believes his family is lost because they lived in Nagasaki and he knows that it was nuked because he watched tge history of WW2 on Archer's smart phone.

Season 5 of Archer follows the Archer cast as being the most inept drug dealers in the business as they are secretly hired by the CIA to take 2,000 kilos of Cocaine, turn it into crack, then sell it to inner city residents. They fail spectaturaly because one character, Pam, starts a coke habit that has her eating half a key a day. More gets lost up when their resident scientist, who built a submarine in a swimming pool using coke as ballast, gets upset that it will never have a maiden launch blows up the sub along with the coke.

In season 6, they are technically back in the spy business but the season focuses more on the development of the lesser characters like Pam and The Character of Archer accepting that he is a father and doing father things like meeting his baby-mama's parents.

Recent seasons, seasons 7 and 8, follow a more film noir, Raymond Chandler Private Dick type genre where the story itself is secondary and only there to set up a world of absolute Shittines where the characters are made to believe that they have a choice in the decisions they make but it is everything around them that is actually making the decisions for them.