Archer Season 7 Episode 10 Finale
Hey! tell me what were some of you guys favorite or WTF moments, feeling towards the season 7 wrap-up?
Stray Observations by avclub.com
I haven’t heard anything about the show’s chances of getting a renewal, but the ratings have been slipping all year. If this is the last we see of Archer and company—and I sincerely hope it isn’t—it feels weirdly fitting to have the last line be a semi-random historical reference, shouted by Krieger over the main character’s corpse.
If we do get renewed, what are people’s bets on how they’ll bring Archer back from the dead? Cyborg? Clone? Dream? Alternate universe? Those damn aliens? Second, back-up robot?
Pam and Cheryl don’t get much to do tonight, but what’s there—Cheryl’s blithe indifference to Dietrich’s anti-handwashing demands, Pam scoffing at the idea of renting a mule—is gold. “You lease that surly bastard.”
I found Shapiro’s wistful regret at planting Lana’s fingerprints on the murder weapon way more believable than Veronica’s dramatic little breakdowns both times she shot Archer. More than any of the show’s other guest stars this year, Patton Oswalt fit this series, and this cast, like a glove.
“Why does she get special treatment?”
“Because she is special.”
“She’s a movie star.”
I could have used a lot more Hollywood spectacle and satire this year.
“To do what? Open an Adolf E. Cheese?” This one took me a minute, mostly because it’s hard to verbally parse.
“What is that, a thing from Star War?” I have to assume that that’s a nod to Jessica Walter’s other famous TV role. (Actually, I’m kind of surprised we didn’t get a Play Misty For Me nod at some point this year.)
“How’s it feel to be such an idiot?”
“Mmm, I guess almost like there’s a vast number of things that can happen to you between now, and when you’re released from police custody, and almost none of them are good.” J.K. Simmons gives good grim-and-threatening.
So, uh… What do you think Archer’s actual plan was?
Archer, dying: “Who puts a table there?”
So much for all my bloviating last week about the C.I.A. and the KGB.
I would have liked to have seen the scene that inspired this post card, from The Figgis Agency web site.
Obscure reference alert: As previously mentioned, John Huston directed The Maltese Falcon (which also appears in this—and the last— episode, in Veronica’s dressing room.) Han Fastolfe is a character from Isaac’s Asimov’s Robot books. Veronica quotes Hamlet the first time she kills Archer, Krieger lets off another Planet Of The Apes yell when Milkly dies, Marlin Perkins was a TV zoologist, and the Turing test is pretty much exactly what Archer describes. I’ll miss you, Obscure reference alert.
Line of the episode: “You can’t murder a machine!”
“Yeah, that’s, like, the first law of robotics.”
“No, it’s the exact opposite of that!”
That might be the perfectly constructed Archer joke—clever, logical, and slightly obscure.
That’s a wrap on Archer season 7, friends. I hope my critiques of the show’s structure don’t come off as too harsh, because it really is my favorite thing on TV—I’ve laughed harder on this assignment than anything else I’ve done since I started writing for the site. Fingers crossed that we’ll get to do it again next year, wherever Reed and Thompson decide to take these poor mean bastards next.
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