I first heard about FX’s “Archer” in the ready room of VAQ-135, a navy squadron who were serving an interminable deployment aboard an aircraft carrier somewhere near Midway Island. (This ...

Archer and Slater escape unharmed… that is, until Archer’s former flame Katya, now a cyborg, emerges from the wreckage and shoots Archer in the chest. Well, hello to you, too.

While some “Archer” seasons have arcs, most are contained 22 minutes of dyspeptic laughs with a side helping of Reed playing with the concept of comedy catchphrases, including Sterling ...

All this shaped Sterling Archer (H. Jon Benjamin) into the world's greatest spy, a superlative he claims with more consistency than living up to it.

On FX’s animated spy spoof, “Archer,” globe-trotting adventures play second fiddle to office politics. Sterling Archer and his co-workers at the International Secret Intelligence Service ...

This all happened in Sterling Archer’s mind as he was in a coma. Archer Season 11 brought him out of his coma and back into the world of spies, only to find the entire world had changed.

“Archer” is different: Every time Sterling expresses his 1950s view of women, race relations or gay life, he is pummeled —both verbally and physically — by his so-called colleagues.