shadden66
First few seasons are fantastic, but ever since they stopped being a spy agency and did all this alternate timeline stuff it has become garbage.Hope the show goes back to the spy genre next season, or I'm just going to have to drop it.
neuroportal
I don't often write reviews, but Archer stands above so many others. You can see in the first season the exploration of a concept, and for me this season is, although funny, still developing ideas and seasons. As they progress, however, you start to see the subtly woven self referrential humour and incredible attention to detail in the animation. Seriously, I can't think of any other animated series that even comes close to the detail, especially vehicles and interior design. Whereas I can see that the writers get a little constrained by the Spy theme as it progresses, I can also see them developing the characters so that they don't really become just two dimensional parodies of themselves. The humour can be dark, purile, sarcastic, rude, quickfire or a gloop of all in one go.Contraversially, it serems from the other reviews, I actually think that season 8 was a triumph. It created a single moving story in a plot that is almost Bobby Ewing in daring. I think it worked. The shift in humour to required for the setting was very well done. Yes, this is a comedy, and it isn't serious, but it does have a serious thread running through it and as a storyline, it is is the usual Archer farce but with more of an edge. What shines through in any long lived series is how the actors gel together and how much the writers and creators care about their work. And i think that these are the reasons it has been so successful. I look forward to season 9, and I hope there are a few more, but if they don't, I await to Adam Reed's next project with anticipation. I hope he gets to use some of the same actors in that next project. Congratulations to everyone involved.
mehrdadjg
Just finished watching season 2. Up until now, this show is a lot of unnecessary screaming, irritating mess ups and well, a whole lot of sex! I was led to believe that Archer is a spy TV show. That couldn't have been more wrong. If you call 'occasionally shooting someone while you have absolutely no plan to deal with what's coming' a spy show, then this will be your piece of cake.Truly annoying! Lower your expectation before watching the first season. Seriously, this is what most of the show is about: Not putting your phone on silent and constantly talking to yourself while doing a secret mission, always throwing a new tantrum and acting like a spoiled little brat, talking about their secret missions in public and bragging how Archer is a secret agent to anyone who passes by.To be completely fair, there are three or four episodes that are actually worth watching towards the end of the second season.
