# Archer S11 **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** tv-shows-scripted\ **Created:** [September 16, 2020, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/archer-s11/920776 "2020-09-16T17:30:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Paintcharge](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/paintcharge/32/7946_2.png) [@Paintcharge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paintcharge)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2020, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/archer-s11/920776/1 "2020-09-16T17:30:11Z")
FYI, starts tonight. Sploosh! ---
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2020, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/archer-s11/920776/2 "2020-09-16T17:53:27Z")
Wow, I had no idea they were even making another season. Do we know if they’re doing another genre season or going back to main continuity? Guess I’ll bring the cardboard boxes upstairs to rebuild Fort Kickass. ---
**Author:** ![BwanaBob](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bwanabob/32/2985_2.png) [@BwanaBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BwanaBob)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2020, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/archer-s11/920776/3 "2020-09-16T18:02:52Z")
I want to know when the hell Season 10 is going to come out on DVD? I have the other 9 seasons. I assumed the release was delayed due to COVID and that when 11 started airing they would do the usual tag long promotion and start selling the previous season. Nothing yet. ---
**Author:** ![gdave](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gdave/32/3683_2.png) [@gdave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gdave)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2020, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/archer-s11/920776/4 "2020-09-16T18:04:31Z")
> [@muldoonthief](#): > > Wow, I had no idea they were even making another season. Do we know if they’re doing another genre season or going back to main continuity? Per the trailer, Archer wakes up from his coma, and they go back to the original continuity. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2020, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/archer-s11/920776/5 "2020-09-16T18:07:17Z")
Wait, what - there’s a Season 11? Going by the end of S10 I’d assumed they were wrapping it up. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2020, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/archer-s11/920776/6 "2020-09-16T19:02:59Z")
Thanks for the Heads-up, Lick-Bag! ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2020, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/archer-s11/920776/7 "2020-09-17T04:18:26Z")
> [@Paintcharge](#): > > Sploosh! Wow. They Eff you in the A right off the bat! Not very good, this episode. ---
**Author:** ![storyteller0910](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecae2f/32.png) [@storyteller0910](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/storyteller0910)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2020, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/archer-s11/920776/8 "2020-09-17T19:27:14Z")
Wow, really? I loved it. I haven’t really enjoyed an episode of Archer since sometime about halfway through the film noir season, and the Sci Fi season was just a joyless slog that I watched but that never once made me crack a smile. Last night I laughed out loud at Archer again! And was interested in the characters and what happened to them! Solid outcome for a Wednesday! ---
**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:** [September 17, 2020, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/archer-s11/920776/9 "2020-09-17T22:45:53Z")
There were two new episodes, back to back. I thought the second was the better of the two. ---
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2020, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/archer-s11/920776/10 "2020-09-18T12:55:12Z")
I liked both episodes, and the return to the quasi-independent spy agency plots, but I have to wonder how many new viewers they could possibly be bringing in. So much of the humor depended on remembering old episodes - like Cheryl liking to be choked, Pam being in underground fight clubs, Krieger’s crimes against humanity - that I think someone not familiar would have been lost and/or bored. ---
**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:** [September 18, 2020, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/archer-s11/920776/11 "2020-09-18T18:54:26Z")
> [@Favourite "Archer" lines](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-archer-lines/585347/): > > “Benoit…” “Balls! Ha, I was laughing at your name.” Cracks me up every time…what are yours? Dammit, I missed the start of the new season. Eat grenade, stupids! ---
**Author:** ![Zelski](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c67d28/32.png) [@Zelski](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zelski)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2020, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/archer-s11/920776/12 "2020-09-19T01:20:15Z")
Screaming for Van-Geance ---
**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:** [September 24, 2020, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/archer-s11/920776/13 "2020-09-24T16:15:51Z")
> [@muldoonthief](#): > > I liked both episodes, and the return to the quasi-independent spy agency plots… Me, too. Glad that Archer had his nose rubbed in the fact that the agency actually does better without him. Great motorcycle chase to kick the season off. Nice to hear Jamie Lee Curtis as the INTERPOL thief and Stephen “Ned Ryerson” Tobolowsky as Lana’s new billionaire husband. And I wonder how many prospective valets Archer will interview before hiring one (if ever)…? Favorite lines: "Woodhouse. _Woodhouse!_ Oh. Never mind - you’re dead. Which is just so _selfish!"_ “God, we get it, Phone. You ring.” “I’m supposed to be here at a _time_?” “Uh huh, nodding, no need to explore.” “I’ve just never met a bald fortune cookie before.” “Hey, uncalled-for! Also fair.” “Thanks, Archer. I know it took a lot to almost not insult me.” “If this is about a package which just arrived, _super_ don’t open it.” “What? She stole my flask, Mother. _I’m_ the victim here.” ---
**Author:** ![DPRK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4491bb/32.png) [@DPRK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DPRK)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2020, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/archer-s11/920776/14 "2020-09-24T21:28:18Z")
“Beer and wine? What am I, twelve?” Fun fact: for a long time in Russia, anything below a critical threshold, like 10%, was not classified as an alcoholic beverage. And one Ukrainian told me flat out she refuses to drink anything with less than 40% alcohol. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2020, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/archer-s11/920776/15 "2020-09-24T21:41:28Z")
Great episode. And while I appreciate the show’s more sophisticated and referential humor, I haven’t laughed in weeks as hard as I did watching Pam and Krieger repeatedly fall down. ---
**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:** [September 29, 2020, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/archer-s11/920776/16 "2020-09-29T03:59:24Z")
The caper to steal the exosuit from the reclusive billionaire inventor? Meh. I don’t think I laughed out loud more than once. No lines I wanted to write down in the entire show. ---
**Author:** ![gdave](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gdave/32/3683_2.png) [@gdave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gdave)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2020, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/archer-s11/920776/17 "2020-09-29T14:26:51Z")
This whole season so far has been “meh” for me. It’s like the writers have seen episodes of _Archer_, they know in theory what the dialogue and story beats should be, but…I don’t know, it’s like they’re just mechanically applying a rote formula. There’s nothing original or surprising or off-beat or quirky anymore. Maybe it’s just that it’s been on so long now that what came across as original, surprising, off-beat, and quirky, just comes across as rote now. ---
**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:** [September 29, 2020, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/archer-s11/920776/18 "2020-09-29T18:54:58Z")
It pains me to say it, but I just think it’s played out. ---
**Author:** ![gdave](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gdave/32/3683_2.png) [@gdave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gdave)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2020, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/archer-s11/920776/19 "2020-11-11T01:02:54Z")
And that’s it. I didn’t realize until I checked today that the episode two weeks ago was the season finale. Just…meh. I really enjoyed the early seasons, and even the weaker later seasons usually had something worthwhile in them, but this season…mildly amusing at times, but it just seemed to be treading water. It’s certainly possible that it wasn’t objectively any worse than earlier seasons, but that I personally am just burned out on it. ---
**Author:** ![DigitalC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ebca7d/32.png) [@DigitalC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DigitalC)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2020, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/archer-s11/920776/20 "2020-11-11T01:26:46Z")
Apparently this was the first season without the show runner of the past ten seasons Adam Reed. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/archer-s11/920776.md?page=2)