# Anyone know when Archer season 5 will begin? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 8, 2013, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-know-when-archer-season-5-will-begin/670721 "2013-10-08T21:19:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2014, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-know-when-archer-season-5-will-begin/670721/21 "2014-01-08T15:34:00Z")
> [@RandMcnally](#): > > Anyone else thought season 4 was a bit off? I wasn’t in love with it although it certainly had its moments. Guess S5 will tell me if it was just a glitch in that season or show fatigue (either with the writers or with me; either way doesn’t matter much from my end). ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2014, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-know-when-archer-season-5-will-begin/670721/22 "2014-01-08T17:39:05Z")
I thought there was a lot of good stuff last season - the two-part underwater adventure, Archer and Lana pretending to be newlyweds in a fancy hotel, and driving across the Moroccan desert with a huge farting dog - comedy gold, baby! I just saw the Vatican City episode last night (it was gathering dust on our DVR), though, and was underwhelmed - and Woodhouse sounded different, too. ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2014, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-know-when-archer-season-5-will-begin/670721/23 "2014-01-08T17:51:19Z")
January 13th, I believe and next season will not be about spies according to this article: [http://www.thewire.com/entertainment/2014/01/archer-no-longer-about-spies-because-writers-got-bored/356787/](http://www.thewire.com/entertainment/2014/01/archer-no-longer-about-spies-because-writers-got-bored/356787/) > [@](#): > > There is a big radical departure this season on Archer and that came about frankly because Adam [Reed] got bored. He is the sole writer of the show and he felt like he was spinning his wheels at some point … And so you have a show that is successful and/or becoming more successful and we decided to change everything because we were bored and because we just want to make the show that makes us interested and happy in the end. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2014, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-know-when-archer-season-5-will-begin/670721/24 "2014-01-08T17:58:20Z")
I have a _very_ bad feeling about this… ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2014, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-know-when-archer-season-5-will-begin/670721/25 "2014-01-08T18:19:54Z")
Dukes! ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2014, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-know-when-archer-season-5-will-begin/670721/26 "2014-01-08T18:29:51Z")
Yeah, a whole season based around them selling a ton of cocaine doesn’t sound promising. ---
**Author:** ![SykoSkotty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c0e974/32.png) [@SykoSkotty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SykoSkotty)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2014, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-know-when-archer-season-5-will-begin/670721/27 "2014-01-08T20:13:41Z")
Starts Monday! Holy s\*\*tsnacks! ---
**Author:** ![LawMonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d6d6ee/32.png) [@LawMonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LawMonkey)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2014, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-know-when-archer-season-5-will-begin/670721/28 "2014-01-08T22:01:52Z")
Eeeeehhh. I will give the the benefit of the doubt, and I can appreciate feeling that the spy gimmick was played out. (I was not thrilled with last season myself, though I don’t know if I’d pin it on the spy gimmick.) But my hopes are not high. Still, hey–it was fucking brilliant while it was on top of its game, at least! ---
**Author:** ![RandMcnally](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b782af/32.png) [@RandMcnally](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RandMcnally)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2014, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-know-when-archer-season-5-will-begin/670721/29 "2014-01-08T23:19:10Z")
Yeah, I’m definitely still going to watch. I don’t have cable so I buy each episode the next day. I’ll give it a month or so until I decide, like I did Community last year. ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2014, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-know-when-archer-season-5-will-begin/670721/30 "2014-01-08T23:33:51Z")
I’m, uh, cautiously pessimistic? That is, the new premise sounds pretty risky to me, but on the other hand, these guys have proven over and over again that they’re far better at writing Archer than I am, so we’ll see. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2014, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-know-when-archer-season-5-will-begin/670721/31 "2014-01-09T01:22:08Z")
Well, if they screw up, you can have their guts for garters. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-know-when-archer-season-5-will-begin/670721.md?page=1)