Archer

As long as it isn't tattoos and bullet wounds at least.

Doesn't Archer still have SEAMUS on his shoulder?

And Dickey, Wodehouse's brother.

I just watched the end of season 6, and aside from the most epic of epic fails, it wasn't that good. The season just seemed to end without any real resolution to anything, aside from their run working for the CIA.

I've forgotten what happened, but isn't it a cliffhanger?

Right, but a cliffhanger needs to have more substance than just Archer putting on sunglasses saying "I have an idea."

I wish Archer was more like the Venture Bros. There, the characters never stop being dysfunctional, but they do get clear character development. There's not enough of that in Archer for my liking. I was looking forward to the latest season because I thought having a baby was going to flesh out Archer and Lana, but it wasn't until the season was more than halfway over before we saw clear character growth for either of them.

You know, there all horrible people, and that's were the humor comes from but Lanna doesn't really work for me. Maybe it's how she's terrible isn't funny.

She's supposed to be the only sane one.

Relatively. She's still petty and prideful.

That's true.

I think it's her so-called sanity that makes her less than stellar moments more noticeable, and therefore worse looking.

We expect more from the supposed Sane one, so when they fuck up , or do something dickish, we tend to be far more disappointed then when Dumbass #2 does something dumb again.

Indeed. But still, I like it that even the supposed Straight Man isn't perfect.

No, no, I know that, but that's not what I'm talking about. It's hard to explain really.

It's not that I dislike the character but something about her rubs me the wrong way differently from the others.

The show's page lists Rodney as a Scrappy, but I actually liked him, because he was a totally normal guy who didn't put up with the rest of the cast's craziness. Of course, the fact that he was willing to exchange weapons for a handy j kind of threw that out the window.

And then he became an arms dealer. Still, I don't think refusing the casts ridiculous and unnecessary requests should make one a scrappy.

Who was Rodney?

Rodney was the guy who ran ISIS's armory. After the organization was shut down in the Archer Vice season Rodney ran off with all the stuff and became an arms dealer. This is all explained in the episode where Archer has to babysit AJ.

Hey, you guys remember that female-led show that Adam Reed was doing for FXX, "Cassius and Clay"?

It got canceled. Before it could be on TV. In favor of an animated something by Louis C.K. and Albert Brooks.

When I read about this, I literally said "Wh-Oh, come on." Like how Lana said it in the first episode of Vice.

Evidently, someone over at FXX had himself one too many doses of cocaine.

(I'd like to give my thanks to Vice for making me associate stupid executive descisons like this as people having too much fun with coke. Thanks, Archer Vice. )

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So I just got a sizzle reel for the new season as a Youtube ad. Coming at the end of March.

I found that too.

In fact, here it is.

Geez, I haven't finished season 6. How much longer until it pops up on Netflix???

I'm hoping this goes over better than Archer Vice.

I liked Archer Vice.

The new trailer is their best yet:

I think this is going to be pretty good. Going from spy agency to private investigator is much easier than spy agency to drug cartel. A combination of Burn Notice and Magnum P.I., starring Archer. That should be hard to fuck up.

I became very attracted to Archer's animation style when it first began airing more frequently on FXX and became syndicated on Comedy Central, and later its harsh yet still hilarious sense of humor. While still mostly just being "James Bond meets Arrested Development", it seems like it could go to Bo Jack Horseman/Rick and Morty levels of pathos with the depiction of Archer and Mallory's relationship, and I hope it does in Season 7.

The ladies of ISIS or whatever it is now debut in the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue.

What, no Malory? I am disappoint.

Me, too, but it's Sports Illustrated. Getting Pam in there was a bit unlikely. Like, Pam looks great, but this is the first year they've had a plus-sized human model, and Pam makes her look like a broomstick.