Archer Review: Achub y Morfilod

Season: 6 / Episode: 11 / FX Archer is barreling towards the end of its season by giving us A LOT of Lana and Sterling relationship counseling. And when I say barreling, I guess I mean limping with a sprained ankle on crutches that are at different heights. Since Lana lost her shit at the end of the previous episode because she found Katya’s robot vagina in Sterling’s bathroom sink, he starts this episode driving with Lana tranquilized in the backseat towards a neutral location where they can talk. Yeah…the writers do address how fucked up and problematic that scenario is socially, but it’s still cringe-worthy nonetheless. Especially since he didn’t even put her clothes back on her while she was knocked out. But as someone on the show would say, “he powered through it.” The plot constructed to distract us from the fact that this is basically a spousal counseling between those two is that the trip doubles as a CIA mission where Lana and Sterling are supposed to smuggle two Wales terrorist/freedom fighters out of the country. They’re on the run from MI-5 for an attempted bombing and it’s our “hero’s” duty to give them safe passage from…our ally. Yeah…I think it’s safe to say this wasn’t my favorite episode. As I can say with all Archer episodes I don’t love, there were some good jokes all around, but this felt like a throw away episode more than anything and still drags the relationship stuff along for another episode.

On the B-Plot side, things were a little more clever…