Archer is weirder than ever in season 10’s episodic space adventure
Archer debuted in 2009 as a sort of animated fusion between James Bond and The Office. Adam Reed’s FX show chronicled the misadventures of titular superspy Sterling Archer (voiced by H. Jon Benjamin) as he deals with covert international missions and, more significantly, HR, accounting, and working for his mother at ISIS, the International Secret Intelligence Service.
But when real-world events caught up with Archer and being an ISIS agent wasn’t a laughing matter anymore, Reed reinvented the show. The writers largely abandoned the office setting in favor of a series of themed seasons that got progressively stranger after Sterling was put into a coma at the end of a season 7 plot paying tribute to the 1950 film-noir classic Sunset...