Disgusting, Vulgar & Offensive: Why I ♥ FX’s New Animated Series ARCHER
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Feb 1 2010, 9:02 AM
From the same network that provides such sordid programming as It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia and Nip/Tuck, comes a new animated series that makes you almost feel bad for laughing…I said almost.
Archer is a 22 minute animated 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, betray and royally screw each other.
The series features the familiar voices of H. Jon Benjamin (Family Guy, Dr. Katz, Home Movies), Jessica Walter (Arrested Development), Aisha Tyler (Talk Soup, 24, and The Boondocks), Chris Parnell (SNL & 30 Rock), and Judy Greer (that chick from that thing).
Although there’s barely any action for the employees of ISIS, there are enough racial slurs, sexual overtones, and inappropriate situations that make holiday with my family seem like church. The main characters, as per FX:
Suave, vain and overly confident, Sterling Archer is an expert secret agent who is inept in most other aspects in his life. His [unhealthy] relationship with his mother Malory - who is also his boss at ISIS - is often strained, never sympathetic and sometimes Oedipal. Archer has the less-than-masculine codename of "Duchess" and used to date fellow agent Lana Kane, which makes their working environment tenuous and difficult.
Strong, voluptuous and often exasperated, Lana Kane is a star agent at ISIS. Lana has a penchant for adult films and is currently dating ISIS comptroller Cyril Figgis, to the mystification of her colleagues.
As the ISIS comptroller, Cyril is a rigid, unerring company man and Sterling's easiest target for ridicule and humiliation - usually without Cyril's knowledge. Boorish and awkward, he is jealous of Sterling's career, charisma and provocative lifestyle.
As Chief Executive Officer of ISIS, Malory Archer governs her employees with harsh criticism, raw commentary and belligerent vilification - and almost always with a drink in one hand. A former spy herself, Malory was usually an unavailable working mother when her son was growing up.
With episode titles like “Diversity Hire” and memorable lines like “Just the Tip!” your subsequent sin-scrubbing shower will be well worth it.
From the same network that provides such sordid programming as It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia and Nip/Tuck, comes a new animated series that makes you almost feel bad for laughing…I said almost.
Archer is a 22 minute animated 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, betray and royally screw each other.
The series features the familiar voices of H. Jon Benjamin (Family Guy, Dr. Katz, Home Movies), Jessica Walter (Arrested Development), Aisha Tyler (Talk Soup, 24, and The Boondocks), Chris Parnell (SNL & 30 Rock), and Judy Greer (that chick from that thing).
Although there’s barely any action for the employees of ISIS, there are enough racial slurs, sexual overtones, and inappropriate situations that make holiday with my family seem like church. The main characters, as per FX:
Suave, vain and overly confident, Sterling Archer is an expert secret agent who is inept in most other aspects in his life. His [unhealthy] relationship with his mother Malory - who is also his boss at ISIS - is often strained, never sympathetic and sometimes Oedipal. Archer has the less-than-masculine codename of "Duchess" and used to date fellow agent Lana Kane, which makes their working environment tenuous and difficult.
Strong, voluptuous and often exasperated, Lana Kane is a star agent at ISIS. Lana has a penchant for adult films and is currently dating ISIS comptroller Cyril Figgis, to the mystification of her colleagues.
As the ISIS comptroller, Cyril is a rigid, unerring company man and Sterling's easiest target for ridicule and humiliation - usually without Cyril's knowledge. Boorish and awkward, he is jealous of Sterling's career, charisma and provocative lifestyle.
As Chief Executive Officer of ISIS, Malory Archer governs her employees with harsh criticism, raw commentary and belligerent vilification - and almost always with a drink in one hand. A former spy herself, Malory was usually an unavailable working mother when her son was growing up.
With episode titles like “Diversity Hire” and memorable lines like “Just the Tip!” your subsequent sin-scrubbing shower will be well worth it.
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