I could say this was amazing ending episode. In my opinion, this season might be one of the best season so far.
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Edvis-199710 June 2021
Sunset Boulevard!
unclehud14 September 2023
OK, so I am not the most educated film buff in the room. Who cares?
Seven years after the show aired, my cousin recommends I watch "Sunset Boulevard", a 1950 Billy Wilder film noir product starring William Holden and Gloria Swanson. IT STARTS THE SAME WAY THIS ENDS: dead guy floating in a pool!
And now I get it, because Season 8 is entirely film noir!
Man! I LOVE this show! The tossed-off cryptic quips, historical allusions, film references, and pithy zingers ...
I watch each episode with my finger poised on the Pause button and Google at the ready.
That makes it a classic, 10-star TV series.
(And, sigh, I miss Jessica Walters.)
Seven years after the show aired, my cousin recommends I watch "Sunset Boulevard", a 1950 Billy Wilder film noir product starring William Holden and Gloria Swanson. IT STARTS THE SAME WAY THIS ENDS: dead guy floating in a pool!
And now I get it, because Season 8 is entirely film noir!
Man! I LOVE this show! The tossed-off cryptic quips, historical allusions, film references, and pithy zingers ...
I watch each episode with my finger poised on the Pause button and Google at the ready.
That makes it a classic, 10-star TV series.
(And, sigh, I miss Jessica Walters.)
S7: Overall narrative not perfect, but in-the-moment laughs are reliable and funny
bob the moo1 July 2017
The seventh season takes a similar approach to the sixth, which is to say that there is a very loose narrative running through the season, but mostly it is doing its usual thing in terms of content, characters, and dialogue. Following the failure to get income from being drug-dealers, the group have relocated to LA and opened a private detective agency. Their first job is a simple recovery operation of a sensitive hard-drive for Hollywood star Veronica Deane, however when their second job can be described in precisely the same way, it becomes clear that there are different groups all out to get some critical information off the drive.
The plot doesn't really matter here, although it is good enough to keep the season moving forward, and provide a decent frame and ending. As ever, I'm no great fan of Barry and his involvement, but that episode was still good, and mostly they were entertaining and funny. It is the core characters that make it work. The familiarity with the jokes and content hasn't yet tired; like the previous season you could argue it is not the most fresh, but you're laughing so it tends not to matter. Mostly it lives in the moment, and this means that as long as it keeps hitting its marks then it works. And it mostly does, with all the characters doing their things in a stripped down fashion that doesn't worry too much about development – in some shows main characters having babies and getting together would mean a change to the dynamics etc, but here it just changes the superficial detail, not anything to do with their approaches to life or interactions!
Animation and voice work remains very good; the guest voices join in well, although it is the sharp writing, adherence to character, and strong delivery that make it work moment to moment and thus as a whole.
The plot doesn't really matter here, although it is good enough to keep the season moving forward, and provide a decent frame and ending. As ever, I'm no great fan of Barry and his involvement, but that episode was still good, and mostly they were entertaining and funny. It is the core characters that make it work. The familiarity with the jokes and content hasn't yet tired; like the previous season you could argue it is not the most fresh, but you're laughing so it tends not to matter. Mostly it lives in the moment, and this means that as long as it keeps hitting its marks then it works. And it mostly does, with all the characters doing their things in a stripped down fashion that doesn't worry too much about development – in some shows main characters having babies and getting together would mean a change to the dynamics etc, but here it just changes the superficial detail, not anything to do with their approaches to life or interactions!
Animation and voice work remains very good; the guest voices join in well, although it is the sharp writing, adherence to character, and strong delivery that make it work moment to moment and thus as a whole.
Season 7 - Overview
Mr-Fusion4 August 2017
That seventh season promo of the Magnum P.I. opening remade a la Archer was perfect and dovetailed nicely with Cyril opening a P.I. agency. And maybe no effort could've possibly lived up to that. To be perfectly honest, this season felt like pure wheel-spinning and kind of a waste of the L.A. setting potential. To say it never went anywhere isn't the whole problem; Krieger, Cheryl, Ray and Pam(!) felt underused. And that's a real crime. The guest stars (Keegan-Michael Key, Patton Oswalt and especially J.K. Simmons) were all highlights, and same for the running gag of the Magnum Ferrari never actually running.
Look, any Archer's better than most TV, but this paled in comparison to prior seasons. And I feel kinda bad saying that, but the tease was so much better.
6/10
Look, any Archer's better than most TV, but this paled in comparison to prior seasons. And I feel kinda bad saying that, but the tease was so much better.
6/10
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