Indeed, everything they were up to turns out to be one long ISIS mission, carried out by Sterling and Malory without anyone getting wise to it until the last possible moment. It was just a sticker off the back of a Lego spaceman. Even Cherlene learns that she wasn’t fundamentally altered in any way by Krieger’s brain chip. One of the themes of this season of Archer has been that no matter what happens, these people are still the people they’ve always been. Still, the four episodes set in San Marcos have more or less brought everything to a close, and there were moments in “Arrival/Departure” that were genuinely tense, something I wasn’t sure was going to happen.īut the more I think about this, the more I like it. At the same time, I’m not sure the season ever nailed the serialization aspect as much as it wanted to, and it sometimes seemed to lose track of it for long stretches at a time. Though this season hasn’t been Archer’s best-that would still be seasons three and two for me-it’s been, weirdly, its most meaningful, and I’ve enjoyed the examinations of how the characters are the same and different in their two divergent careers. When I first heard that Adam Reed and company planned to “un-reboot” the show, I’ll admit that it gave me pause. Todd: “Arrival/Departure’s” main goal is to put a cap on this wild, wooly season of Archer, to take the whole story of Archer Vice and make some sense of it, while also returning the characters to a place where they will believably be back to their usual spy shenanigans next season.

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