Archer Review: The Figgis Agency

Season: 7 / Episode: 1 / FX Network The problem with one of your favorite shows not being as great as it once was isn’t that the show has gone bad. It’s that its lost a little of it’s fastball and isn’t dominating like it once was, even thought it has the capacity to have flashes of when it was brilliant. Season six had many of these moments, getting back to form after the experimental Archer Vice (season 5), but having plenty of episodes that just fell flat. Season 7 has begin in this vein, an introduction to the new “Archer-reality” while offering a lot of good but not great jokes along the way. After another season of being disastrously bad at the current job, the group formerly known as a spy agency that got disowned by the CIA is now a private eye firm with not many prospects. When a former movie star waltzes in, claiming she wants to hire them to “steal back” some sensitive material she claims was stolen from her, the crew is happy to jump at it so they can deploy their ‘hardly useful any more’ skills. The plot of them breaking into someone’s house to steal something for a shadowy client, goes about how you would expect, all very true to form for the circumstance and what we’ve learned from these characters over the years.

A lot of the humor, Sterling’s insecurity with not being the man in all facets, Malaria’s shade being on 9000 or Cyril puffing out his chest every chance he gets are all familiar and right at home in the Archer canon. Sometimes, too familiar. Adam …