Archer Review: Reignition Sequence

Season: 6 / Episode: 10 / FX This week continues the turn of events from last week when Lana and Sterling rekindled their…whatever they’re relationship followed by break up followed by cancer sex followed by fallout followed by artificial insemination followed by THIS, is. Apparently the B squad (Pam, Cyril, Cheryl, Ray and Krieger) are speaking with my voice because they’re pretty disgusted by the new obnoxious love affair and want to break them up. After deciding that finding a prostitute that Sterling HASN’T slept with in all of New York might be too difficult to find, they decide to put in a call to the KGB and get Katya Kasanova to come and seduce him. This was a decent episode. My annoyance of the Lana / Sterling stuff aside, it was pretty pedestrian for the most part. It was interesting, however, for the B Squad to be the most entertaining part of the episode as they are often a take it or leave commodity. The (successful) joke per minute count in the first 3 minutes of this episode happens at almost an epic rate and I would challenge anyone watching it to try and catch them all on one run through. Cheryl’s flipbook as a visual aid to her proposal of kidnapping A.J. which ends with A.J. being raised and trained by Ra’s Al Ghul, gets an automatic entry into the Archer Hall of Fame.

Despite this season having some incredible episodes, two distinct weaknesses come to mind. There’s a heavier reliance on old storylines more than other seasons past. For cats like me that ha…