We ’re now three episodes into Archer ’s 7th season , which has escort the work party relocate to Los Angeles and set up shop as private investigators . Though Archer belike could have kept going with the hush-hush - broker shenanigans , this fresh status quo has made an already with child show even better . Here ’s why .
With the move to LA , there are all kind of raw stuff and nonsense to make playfulness of — and a totally new landscape of crimes . The first two episodes essence around a guinea pig involving an aging ( but still sultry enough to fluster Cyril , Archer , and Ray ) screen siren and her lascivious lawyer ( Patton Oswalt , perfectly guest - casting ) . We knew the Archer bunch was more than capable of being starstruck ( see : last time of year ’s run - in with “ TV ’s Michael Gray ! ” ) , but getting a turbulent motion-picture show star into the plot in good order away cleverly acknowledged the show ’s new location while introduce some novel case of characters that we have n’t seen before on the show . What ’s more , it offered an homage to classic film noir movie . Archer is known for the random references in its dialogue , but the Sunset Boulevard cry - out was a nifty visual nod to its new setting , too .
But there ’s more to LA than Hollywood , as we witness last Nox in “ Deadly Prep . ” The instalment get down with Lana , Mallory , and Sterling connive about how they ’re going to shoot down little A.J. a coveted spot in one of the urban center ’s very elect private schools . This plot could have transpire back in New York , but only in LA could it have localize Archer in the course of someone he ’s been avoiding since his own prep school days ( “ Swirling Archer ! Remember how we used to call you Swirling , because of all the swirlies ? ” ) This bump affords a rare and surprisingly dark brainwave into Archer ’s childhood — and how he became the , uh , unequaled way he is , something the show has n’t dig into very much .
But unlike Archer ’s 5th season — Archer Vice , which get a line the agentive role becoming drug overlord and body politic singing stars and going a wee scrap off the rails — season seven has stick around dependable to the show ’s original milieu , even if its bound have changed . We want to see these endearingly dysfunctional fictitious character suiting up in catsuits and dark - visual sensation goggles , arm themselves with whatever alien weapon Krieger has on hand , baffle into controversy about stupid material while dodging sniper fervidness , or clenched fist - fight down an intact gang of raging rockers . It ’s one of the reasons why we sleep with them .
Just one care so far about time of year seven : Pam and Cheryl have n’t yet had much to do but hang up out at the government agency . Pam , especially , had some large present moment last time of year . ( Remember the episode that took plaza alongside her baby Edie ’s wedding ? ) And it would be squeamish to see her character continue to grow and get even weirder , if that ’s actually possible .
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