Interesting ending of this season. It started shaking but ending great, but maybe first season was a little bit better.
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Edvis-199725 April 2021
Good Cyborg Jokes
Hitchcoc27 September 2022
A Russian spy saves Archer's life and he falls for her. She is thought to be a double agent by the Isis people, including Archer's mother. Archer is gaga over this woman and is willing to kill all his friends and family to be able to marry her. For me the most memorable moment is when one of the characters, while drunk, has swallowed three billiard balls and is sitting on the toilet, passing them. Eventually it gets down to Archer's life being in danger and the Russian woman having to make a decision to save his life again. I haven't watched one of these for a long time, but the incompetence of Isis is really something.
Season 2: Aside from a few weaker episodes, continues the smart, silly writing and good comedic delivery
bob the moo14 July 2015
There are a few weaker episodes within this season, but generally it continues the crude, bickering silliness of the previous season – which is a good thing. Ironically, the weaker episodes I found were the ones that tried to have too much expansion of the narrative, the episodes that took us towards a specific character or had to fit in a lot of events to make it work. It is not to suggest that less story works best in this show, but I do enjoy the times where the characters get to be crude, impatient assess towards one another, since this tends to produce the funniest material.
The deadpan tone throughout backs this up, and is well supported by the animation, which continues to have a great old-school feel and manage to look simple but yet also hugely polished at the same time. The writing has plenty of great lines throughout, and they are very well delivered by the cast, who have great comic timing with their deadpan. It is hard to pick a favourite since everyone has great material. Benjamin of course is the most consistent, with Tyler having good presence, but the supporting characters tend to get the best laughs – with Walter's matriarch, and Greer's dippy Cheryl regularly having very strong lines.
It perhaps continues not to be for everyone, and (thankfully) it doesn't seem to have particularly softened its cruder material to get a wider audience; however the deadpan narcissism of the characters and their sharply written and delivered bickering continues to make for consistently good laughs across the season.
The deadpan tone throughout backs this up, and is well supported by the animation, which continues to have a great old-school feel and manage to look simple but yet also hugely polished at the same time. The writing has plenty of great lines throughout, and they are very well delivered by the cast, who have great comic timing with their deadpan. It is hard to pick a favourite since everyone has great material. Benjamin of course is the most consistent, with Tyler having good presence, but the supporting characters tend to get the best laughs – with Walter's matriarch, and Greer's dippy Cheryl regularly having very strong lines.
It perhaps continues not to be for everyone, and (thankfully) it doesn't seem to have particularly softened its cruder material to get a wider audience; however the deadpan narcissism of the characters and their sharply written and delivered bickering continues to make for consistently good laughs across the season.
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