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Archer - S5 |OT| of Phrasing, Gurpgork, Boop! & the Danger Zone - Mondays on FX
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BuddyJoeHooker
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Cornballer
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So it's his kid, Carol didn't have a chip, and ISIS is back in business.
Hahaa , nice find. Definitely his kid.
The Last Wizard
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Short season, but looking forward to Archer,Lana, and Abergine(?) next season.
Also I've got a feeling his Russian cyborg ex will be returning next season.
Also I've got a feeling his Russian cyborg ex will be returning next season.
Neko Godot
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I'm just wondering, what's the production time on these episodes? I know that after there was a bit of backlash against the season's concept, they announced it would go back to being a spy show next year. But the montage at the beginning of the season suggested that wasn't always the case, as Lana was going to give birth in a completely different situation, there was that different scene with the tiger and I believe some other scenes that didn't show up at all. All the stuff with the CIA must have been added in to course correct for next year, but how much time would the staff have had to make those changes?
zyxwvu4321
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Goal for Season 6: Make Pam not-horrible.
The Last Wizard
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Yea I was wondering about the church delivery scene from the premiere. My main problem with the season was Pam and the fact that the show lost its adventure, the ending scene that was a "look forward" into the season looked really cool but we never got that. It was just fuck up after fuck up.
I dunno, maybe it was just for fun. Like, only in Archers mind would he be in a forest with a tiger and Chi the nail lady.
Although that would have been pretty cool. Was hoping Archer would get the pet tiger.
Her "A long racist story", line got me pretty good. Yeah, her cocaine deal was pretty overplayed. I can agree on that.
Think it was a combination of Archer's fantasies and the creators dropping some fun red herrings to keep some mystery about how the season would play out.
systematic
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Adam Reed was in the middle of writing episode 11 in January, assuming this interview was published shortly after being conducted:
Fantastic finale, just quotable and hilarious and exciting all around. Captured the season pretty well too in that the only outright bad parts were Pam and sometimes Carol.
But the pilot conversation, the nerve gas carrying, Abby Jean (?)'s wait-finger, Slater and Archer and Lana arguing, and the chaos of Mallory and Cyril and Pam running from the palace were all awesome.
didn't get the gag with Archer's tinnitus freezing. I thought it was just him freaking out about the baby, but him talking about a coma was lost on me.
But the pilot conversation, the nerve gas carrying, Abby Jean (?)'s wait-finger, Slater and Archer and Lana arguing, and the chaos of Mallory and Cyril and Pam running from the palace were all awesome.
didn't get the gag with Archer's tinnitus freezing. I thought it was just him freaking out about the baby, but him talking about a coma was lost on me.
Heh no answer for you but your post reminded me of all the whiners at the beginning of the season who thought the entire run was ruined because of a 40 second promo
Cornballer
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Jason's Ultimatum
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Personally, I thought this was the weakest season, thought the ending was heart warming, yet hilarious with archers tinnitus.
lazybones18
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Interesting name for the baby Lana
I hate it 
Very. Naturally given the plot it covered a wide range and all of it was done well.
Very happy (I think) they lightly lowered the tinnitus sound. It didn't resonate with my tinnitus like it has in the past.
I mumbled "Oh you fuckers" under my breath when the tinnitus started to go. I thought he had gone the entire season reading lips, or he'd been in a coma the entire time (which is the gag they kind of jokingly went with). I was glad that they didn't go there though.
Abbigene huh? Mallory is going to love that. Abbigene Archer Kane, or Abbigene Kane Archer, depending on who wins that argument. Either way, it was a very nice final moment.
Edit: Can't even figure out how to spell it. Not going to try.
Absolutely the weakest. They tried something new and it really didn't work for the most part, but that's always the risk you take when doing so I guess. There were really good episodes in there, but it just never reached the level of prior seasons.
I'm hopeful for them getting back on track for next season. Hopefully sans cokey monster, Charlene, and misadventures in drug running.
I guess if Charlene really has a sticker in her brain, it's him. I don't know how a clone would know that. They definitely dropped a lot of hints that he wasn't the real Krieger, but then he did basically scuttle the rocket so....I don't know.
Abbigene huh? Mallory is going to love that. Abbigene Archer Kane, or Abbigene Kane Archer, depending on who wins that argument. Either way, it was a very nice final moment.
Edit: Can't even figure out how to spell it. Not going to try.
Absolutely the weakest. They tried something new and it really didn't work for the most part, but that's always the risk you take when doing so I guess. There were really good episodes in there, but it just never reached the level of prior seasons.
I'm hopeful for them getting back on track for next season. Hopefully sans cokey monster, Charlene, and misadventures in drug running.
I guess if Charlene really has a sticker in her brain, it's him. I don't know how a clone would know that. They definitely dropped a lot of hints that he wasn't the real Krieger, but then he did basically scuttle the rocket so....I don't know.
I'm still not sure I understand what the deal was with clone arc with Krieger and I feel one could make a decent argument that this season was weaker than the others but I still loved it. The "twists" that played out this episode weren't what I'd call particularly shocking though
Jason's Ultimatum
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I think the problem is that they focused on plot since the entire season is based on getting the coke, and every episode is, for the most part, related.
thezerofire
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They developed the characters a lot more and made it more plot-oriented but it definitely came at the expense of the humor imo. I did like the ending, though I expected Archer to shout "Abbi-what?!" just before the credits
ReturnOfTheRAT
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Nope. Did not think it was Archer's baby. I am shocked.
That was beautiful.
Overall the weakest season, I think, but considering how funny I think the others are, this was still really fucking good.
This little part from ep 12 slayed me:
Mallory: Look on the bright side, with any luck at all, it'll save me the trouble of killing you myself
Pam: Damn, dawg.
Ray: Inaprops.
:lol The way Pam said "Damn, dawg" was perfect.
This little part from ep 12 slayed me:
Mallory: Look on the bright side, with any luck at all, it'll save me the trouble of killing you myself
Pam: Damn, dawg.
Ray: Inaprops.
:lol The way Pam said "Damn, dawg" was perfect.
i knew that baby was gonna be someones in the firm. hopefully pam is in rehab for half of the next season. cherlene has always been crazy, but the cokey monster got so damn old, i would assume the writers would have thought so too
Dominican Power
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I thought Krieger was the one brought in all that cocaine.
Passive Assassin
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welp ... this is going to be interesting next season.
Matt_
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Wow, I am surprised the Baby is actual Archer's. Throughout Lana's whole speech I was expecting her to slap him, say she was joking and call him an ass
Happy that they are returning to ISIS next series. I enjoyed this cocaine break but it will be nice to get back to normal. Maybe even hire a new agent or something?
Happy that they are returning to ISIS next series. I enjoyed this cocaine break but it will be nice to get back to normal. Maybe even hire a new agent or something?
Dorsal Axe
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Sounds like ISIS will get a redesign next season. Guess they'll need a space for the baby.
I think it was just poking fun at the "it was all a dream/coma/hallucination" trope that is often used to explain these sorts of stories.
Miles Quaritch
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Ditto, I loved the concept. The new logo with the Vice City styling and Archer minus tie with a Mac-10 held such promise. I was hoping for riskier situations, higher stakes and more outlandish actions as they went rogue. Instead it was mostly them trying to get their foot in the door of drug dealing and getting outwitted straight away by those already in it with a constant B-plot of supporting characters doing goofy stuff at home to pass the time.
It creeped me out. The shot went on for a second too long and then Archer was all, "Am I waking up from a coma from the Sealab incident?"
The show is just crazy enough that they might pull have pulled that.
This was the weakest season of Archer because it felt like thirteen episodes of filler and lead-ins to the next episode that ultimately went nowhere.
Frisky Dingo did a lot more with less time. Adam Reed has pretty much made five seasons of Archer by taking pieces of Frisky Dingo and flattening it out as far as they can go (for better or for worst).
Archer's tinnitus scene at the end of this season + the sperm donor baby bit is almost identical to Xander's girlfriend keeping his sperm in Frisky Dingo and him tuning her out in that moment of revelation but without all the zaniness of a mutant baby. Entire nerve bomb subplot was reminiscent to the Anhililatrix.
I had this far out hope that Wendell from from Frisky Dingo would have made made a cameo as a CIA agent. It would have been something random and unexpected at the end of the season that could have redeemed a show that's creatively dragging its feet.
Frisky Dingo did a lot more with less time. Adam Reed has pretty much made five seasons of Archer by taking pieces of Frisky Dingo and flattening it out as far as they can go (for better or for worst).
Archer's tinnitus scene at the end of this season + the sperm donor baby bit is almost identical to Xander's girlfriend keeping his sperm in Frisky Dingo and him tuning her out in that moment of revelation but without all the zaniness of a mutant baby. Entire nerve bomb subplot was reminiscent to the Anhililatrix.
I had this far out hope that Wendell from from Frisky Dingo would have made made a cameo as a CIA agent. It would have been something random and unexpected at the end of the season that could have redeemed a show that's creatively dragging its feet.
Cornballer
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Not sure how I feel about the season. I liked the big overarching serial plot, but it was probably the least funny season thus far. Love that Archer will be a dad next season, though.
It was still a massively stupid decision....
It was still a massively stupid decision....
RustyCassette
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I teared up.
to show placeholder footage cut together rapidly that gave a vague idea of what would be coming? Yeah definitely show-ruining my poor virgin eyes were sullied
Miles Quaritch
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I'm actually pretty disappointed they reworked/changed a lot of how things went down from the promo.
Some of it looked really interesting. The part with Archer on the run from the feds as well as that scene in the rice fields and Cherlene's kidnapping. San Marco as a whole seemed more interesting from the promo too...
Some of it looked really interesting. The part with Archer on the run from the feds as well as that scene in the rice fields and Cherlene's kidnapping. San Marco as a whole seemed more interesting from the promo too...
razgriz417
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agreed, they took pam getting hooked on cocaine and really ran it into the ground. But yeah this San Marcos arc was great and redeemed the season for me. Really interested to see how next season will work out
The Real Abed
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I hope not. I loved it when My Name is Earl did it. Never saw it when House did it. But it's been done. And I don't watch shows that take place in jail. Please go back to being secret agents. Or stick with your original plan.
But even if they did, I'd still enjoy it.
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