a5c7b9f00b Archer is an animated, half-hour comedy that revolves around an international spy agency and the lives of its employees. Although their work of espionage, reconnaissance missions, wiretapping and undercover surveillance is daunting and dangerous, every covert operation and global crisis is actually just another excuse for the staff to undermine, sabotage and betray each other for personal gain. The series features the voices of H. Jon Benjaminthe highly skilled and incredibly vain master spy "Sterling Archer;" Aisha TylerArcher's fellow agent and ex-girlfriend, "Lana Kane;" Jessica WalterArcher's domineering mother and spy agency director, "Malory Archer;" Chris Parnellthe easily intimidated comptroller-turned secret agent "Cyril Figgis;" Judy GreerMalory's loquacious, dingbat secretary, "Cheryl;" Amber Nashthe discordant director of human resources, "Pam Poovey;" Adam Reedthe gay voice of reason, "Ray Gillette;" and Lucky Yatesthe spy agency's possibly mad scientist/ possibly clone of himself, "Krieger." Covert black ops and espionage take a back seat to zany personalities and relationships between secret agents and drones. Season 5 is simply awful, it's not a "reboot"FX PR flaks are projecting it, but the reanimation of a corpse over and over. There are very few laughs now(that's being kind), the plot totally hackneyed, and the characters dull and pointless. The only interesting part of this season is to see which episode is going to be a bigger train wreck than its predecessor. Southbound and Down is actually so bad I might not be able to watch another episode again. In a few years, Season 5 will be studied in Film Schools to chronicle one of the biggest failures in Television History, and the perils of what can happen when you no longer care about your audience and just mail it in week after week for a pay check. How many elements and subplots of bad 70's & 80's TV shows can be regurgitated in one season? Anyone associated with this season needs to take a long look in the mirror and really think about what it means to be creative, original and entertaining, because Season 5 lowers the bar to a level that would make Soviet Propaganda Films Starring Joe Stalin more entertaining. That's all I gotta say, Archer is EPIC. I can watch the same episode 10 times and never get tired of it. All the characters are hilarious.
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