Archer Review: The Holdout

Season: 6 / Episode: 1 Welcome back, welcome back, welcome back. Archer Vice is back for season number six and the new boss is the same as the old boss. Sorta. After the break from normalcy (or whatever passes for it on Archer) last season where our favorite dysfunctional spy agency tried their hand at being a drug cartel, they are back in the espionage business. But not as the agency we can no longer mention because they are a horrible terrorist group that executes innocent people, but instead they now work for the CIA. There’s a joke there that even I refuse to make. But if the beginning of this season feels familiar, that’s because it is. Archer, whose milkshake brought all the babies to the yard, is still having a hard time dealing with Lana using his sperm to impregnate herself. Can we uh, sideboard that, off just a minute… …Everybody likes Lana, right? She’s usually the coolest head in a room full of idiots, right? And I do like that she’s a mom now. It was a cool and necessary way to move her character along a bit after 4-5 seasons. But even for this show, this is all the way fucked up though, right? Like…I’m not saying this as a dude, I’m saying this as someone that likes the Lana character. Like, this is some shit that Cheryl/Carol would’ve done…but only in season one. Not sure I’ll be getting past that anytime soon. But anyways… …Sterling went MIA like this between seasons two and three when his fiance died saving him at their wedding (before being broug…