Today, I just started watching the TV show Archer, created by the same group that made Frisky Dingo and Sealab 2021. Considering how hilarious I find Frisky Dingo, I’m not terribly surprised that I find the humor similar and just as funny.
The show just started this winter on FX, which also marks the first time I’ve actually watched an FX show…a surprising environment for Archer, in my opinion. The show revolves around a secret agent, Archer, and his agency ISIS. Unlike the incompetency of Xander Crews from Frisky Dingo, Archer actually has some legitimate secret agent skills. The frequent mistakes that he makes, though, like hiring call girls and taking drugs, often come close to ruining missions, but miraculously turn out okay. Several points of tension play out in the show, including race and sexual harassment in the office, serious topics treated with little pretension.
If you enjoy Sealab and/or Frisky Dingo, definitely watch Archer. If you haven’t seen either, give Archer a view. Archer is more accessible than either of these shows and should get a good reception. The first season is still in progress now.
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“I look like an otter!! .. a sexy otter.”
Good call on mentioning the dingo deal – I was going to ask you about it before Lost started giving me my enjoyable weekly headache and rage again.
I just can’t watch LOST anymore…it just felt so repetitive to me when I watched the first season. But now I feel like I’m seriously missing out on something because everyone is so anxious for this last season.
It’s definitely a cultural phoenomena. I equate ‘understanding’ it to going to a fashion show in Paris and hoping to lay the most attractive model there. Laughable in its hopeless determination, though enough to make you go.
My theory is that the producers planned on having one, maybe two seasons tops, and then the public reception of it was beyond anything they had really planned out. Now they get drunk and high every few weeks and write another episode. Not to give anything away if you decide to catch up, but just to show you how infuriating it all is, the last episode of the last season ended in an event that would have either brought the people who were stuck in the past back to 2004 and annuled everything that happened over the last five seasons or have done nothing and probably killed everyone – thus the manic excitement at the beginning of this season. The producers’ idea on how to resolve this one-or-the-other question? “What if it were both?” .. and then they did this. It’s ridiculous. Dual co-functioning timelines – a ‘what if’ that is actually being played out while the other ‘reality’ is too. Fucking infuriating. And I watch it like a patsy.
.. about sums up my post:
http://www.theonion.com/content/video/final_season_of_lost_promises_to
Don’t worry, I have no intention of catching up. I have a strong feeling LOST will remain as a cultural phenomenon of the early 2000’s that I missed out on. Your explanation is helpful though why I see the show frequently in FB status updates or Google Chat statuses. Perhaps, people are drawn to the ridiculousness and just have to know what is coming next.