Archer: Seasons One & Two

Archer: Seasons One & Two

                Once upon a time I was a member of Netflix (no longer am) and for whatever reason they recommended that I watch Archer.   Not only that, but they allowed me to watch the first however many episodes for free on their site.   This was before there was as much streaming as there is now.

                My initial imprint of Archer stands to this day.   This is a show about a spy agency, sure, but more than anything else it is a comedy.  It’s on FX, so they can say things like “shit” (Or maybe that’s just for the DVD, I have no idea really, I don’t watch television) and get away with a certain amount of partial nudity as well as glorious violence.

                The first season is mainly an introduction to our characters and a feeling out process for the show.   The episodes do have plots, sure, but for the most part it’s just about the humor.  

                In Season Two, we introduce the Wee Baby Seamus and Archer also gets cancer.   So, yeah, there is sort of some plot going on there, amidst all the humor and violence.

                Archer is vulgar.   Archer is bloody violence wrapped in gore.  Archer is crass.   Archer is something that no living person should ever watch based on all of the things- content-wise – that are wrong with it.   For instance, in one scene, someone is choking someone else during sex (no spoilers) and Pam shouts from the toilet, door ajar, “You’re making it kind of hard to drop a deuce!”   But at its core, Archer is still one of the funniest shows I have ever witnessed, animated or not, and the cast is simply terrific in backing that notion up.