Archer (cartoon series)
| Television series | |
|---|---|
| German title | Archer |
| Original title | Archer |
 | |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Year (s) | since 2009 |
| Production company |
Floyd County Productions , Radical Axis |
| length | 22 minutes |
| Episodes | 109+ in 10+ seasons ( list ) |
| genre | Comedy |
| idea | Adam Reed |
| music | Mel Young, JG Thirlwell |
| First broadcast | September 17, 2009 (USA) on FX Network |
| German-language first broadcast |
December 17th 2010 on Comedy Central Germany |
| occupation | |
Archer is an American cartoon series for adults that has been produced since 2009 based on an idea by Adam Reed. The series revolves around the life of Sterling Malory Archer and his work as an agent for the fictional secret service ISIS. Ten seasons of the series have been made so far.
Plot and style
Sterling Archer is an agent with the International Secret Intelligence Service (ISIS) under the leadership of his bossy mother, Malory Archer. In addition to the usual agent assignments, he has to deal with the agent Lana Kane, his ex-girlfriend, her boyfriend Cyril Figgis, the ISIS accountant, and other bizarre characters. The clichés of well-known agent formats are used and parodied by heavy exaggeration. The series is designed anachronistically , because in addition to the technology from the 90s and the enemy image of the Cold War from the 80s, it partly reflects the current political situation of the present.
In the first season, mainly the main characters are introduced. The focus of the action is on individual operations by the agent team. Over the course of the season, Archer's ex-girlfriend Lana Kane and Cyril Figgis split up.
The second season also begins episodically. In the course of time, however, a conflict emerges between ISIS and the KGB . The highlight of the season is Archer's capture in Moscow by his possible father, the head of the KGB. With the help of the renegade Soviet agent Katya and Archer's rival Barry Dylan, however, he manages to escape. Barry Dylan is seriously injured through Archer's fault and is reawakened as a cyborg by the Soviets. In the finale it becomes apparent that Archer and Katya want to get married. At the engagement party, however, she falls to her death when she saves Sterling from Barry.
Because of his late fiancée, Archer went into hiding at the beginning of season three. He takes over the leadership of a gang of pirates in the Pacific, which soon mutinies against him. With the help of his friends from ISIS, however, he is able to escape. In the course of the season, Archer's colleague Ray is injured and has since been in a wheelchair, which Krieger frees him from in a later episode by operating on his bionic legs. It also turns out that he brought Katya back to life as a cyborg. Sterling's possible father, KGB chief Jakov, is meanwhile overflowing with ISIS. It turns out that Barry Dylan is now head of the KGB. He kills Jakov before it can be clarified whether he really is Sterling's father. He also manages to relax Sterling Katya. The season ends with a mission on a space station that is at the control of armed hostage takers. After the revolt is put down, Sterling and his team manage to leave Barry Dylan, who followed Sterling into space, so that he is cut off from Earth.
The fourth season continues seamlessly: Archer and his team return to Earth. Katya reappears and manages to manipulate ISIS in such a way that the team helps rescue Barry Dylan from the space station. It is implied that Katya is now the KGB boss. Like the first two seasons, the fourth season mainly tells individual stories. It also turns out that Lana is pregnant. As a father, she reports an anonymous sperm donation.
At the beginning of the fifth season, the ISIS headquarters is stormed by FBI agents. The former ISIS agents are released but have to stop spying. You are therefore starting to build an international drug cartel, since Malory Archer still has about a ton of cocaine that was given to her by the CIA in order to deliver it to a fictional principality in exchange for weapons in the course of the season. However, this is discovered after the principality is overthrown and ISIS is ultimately affiliated with the CIA.
While the sixth season ties in with the first four "Agent" seasons, the protagonists open a private detective agency at the beginning of the seventh season. In the season seven finale, Archer is shot and falls into a coma.
The eighth and ninth seasons then lead the viewer into the dream world of the still comatose Archer. In season eight, the protagonists are in Los Angeles in the 1940s, solving a criminal case. The action of the ninth season revolves around a mysterious treasure on an island and takes place shortly before the start of the Second World War. Archer and his consorts have to prove themselves against cannibals and Nazi henchmen led by Cyril. In the season nine finale, Archer appears to wake up in a spaceship.
At the end of season 10, Archer wakes up from his coma.
main characters
- Sterling Malory Archer , code name: Duchess (after Malory's deceased bitch). He is considered one of the most dangerous secret agents in the world. He is very self-centered, naive and childish, and a little bit stupid. In various places, however, it becomes apparent that he is extraordinarily educated. He speaks several languages and has detailed cultural and scientific knowledge. Archer enjoys the sunny side of agent life, which is expressed through world travel, sex, and good suits. Nonetheless, Sterling is a deadly threat to any adversary because of his trained gun handling and body. With regard to his mother, he is characterized by a kind of Oedipus complex .
- Lana Kane is the smarter, tougher, and more assertive agent at ISIS. She is extremely attractive and an excellent agent, but only plays second fiddle within ISIS. She was in a relationship with Cyril, the accountant for ISIS, on the grounds that he is just not like Sterling. Sterling calls Lana the only professional at ISIS and his only friend. In the course of the action, she becomes pregnant. A running gag are allusions to their large hands. She was also an environmental activist at a young age.
- Malory Archer is a self-centered, mean and insidious diva who constantly sips alcohol and runs the agency with mean tricks. It is also thanks to her extraordinary sex drive that she does not know who Sterling’s father is. Malory hates her neighbor, Trudy Beekman, and is always trying to harm her. She always stands out in the series by her political incorrectness. For over 40 years she had an affair with the head of the Russian secret service KGB, Nikolai Jakov. It is also characterized by a disguised racism and a conservative stance on all social and economic issues.
- Arthur Henry Woodhouse is Archer's frail butler. Malory gave birth to Archer in his bar. Since then, he has taken on the role of his butler, even if for a long time he was the only one who raised him. Woodhouse is a British WWI veteran and war hero who killed at least 50 Germans at the time. For Archer, he's a whipping boy whom he doesn't even consider human. In various places it can be seen that Woodhouse suffers from a drug addiction.
- Cyril Figgis is the insecure and slightly shy accountant from ISIS. He was in a relationship with Lana in between, but was abandoned after cheating because of his sex addiction. Furthermore, he is the real father of Archer's son. In the third season he was promoted from accountant to agent, but is mostly pretty stupid.
- Pam Poovey is ISIS's Head of Human Resources. In addition to her sexual frustration, she struggles with her body weight. In addition, it is often suggested that she is bisexual , so she had sex with Lana before, because of an agreement that Pam made. She is also the chatterbox at ISIS. It spreads rumors faster than memos are written. Cyril describes your role in the company as so unimportant that even a bulletin board would suffice. Sometimes she uses a dolphin doll to talk to her staff in counseling sessions. Her past is known to have grown up on a dairy farm and making her way through college with illegal fistfighting. In addition, her personality is characterized by a rawness, so she passes her time with "bum fights" and illegal car races. During the course of the fifth season, she becomes addicted to cocaine.
- Cheryl Tunt is Malory's secretary. She wrongly considers herself smarter than others. She changes her name frequently, for example to “Carol” “Crystal” or “Cherline”. She also likes to practice sadomasochism, for example being choked to get aroused. Furthermore, you already find out about your lactose intolerance in the first episode . She's also a pyromaniac , so she has a penchant for setting things on fire. Season 2 reveals that she is a billionaire heiress. She has a pet ocelot named Babou, named after Salvador Dalí's ocelot . During the fifth season she tries to get started as a country singer.
- Dr. Algernop Krieger is the director of applied science at ISIS. However, he uses this position more to implement hard sex fantasies, which is why he briefly maintained an unspecified relationship with Cheryl. Then he built himself a virtual girlfriend who looks like a manga / anime character. Her name is Mitsuko and she and Krieger wanted to get married, but then left it because “society couldn't handle it”. He grew up in Brazil as the son of an unspecified escaped Nazi and is referred to several times as a potential clone of Hitler. He came to America at age 15 after his Dobermans killed his father, a nod to the movie The Boys from Brazil .
- Ray Gillette is also an ISIS agent and has the ability to defuse bombs. He is homosexual and was married for 2 years to a lesbian he met in a “pray away gay” group. In the course of the series he is seriously injured, so he is handcuffed to a wheelchair. Using one of Dr. However, he can walk again. However, he has several relapses and alternately sits in a wheelchair or can walk again. Ray comes from the backwoods of West Virginia, but is the opposite of his brother who still lives there.
Minor characters
- Nikolai Jakov is the head of the Russian secret service KGB. He may be Sterling Archer's biological father. Although the KGB and ISIS are actually enemies, he had a kind of romantic relationship with Malory Archer for 40 years, with whom he also met or had phone / cam sex. He wanted Malory Archer to join him in Russia, so he had a sextape made of her in order to indirectly blackmail her.
- Katya Kazanova is a pretty attractive blonde KGB agent who saved Sterling Archer's life by killing agent friends she was friends with. She fell in love with Sterling Archer when she saw a photo of him at a lecture during her KGB training. Apparently Archer fell in love with her too, because he proposed marriage to her and took her to America with him. The rest of the ISIS team thought she was a double agent until she was killed on the day of the wedding. She later returns as one of Dr. Warrior-created cyborg returns, but then leaves Sterling for Barry.
- Barry Dylan is a former agent of a competing spy agency: ODIN. Barry has a deep hatred for Archer after he had sex with his fiancée and seriously injured him several times. At the end of Season 2, the KGB turned Barry into a cyborg to kill Archer. Instead, he kills Sterling's fiancée, former Russian agent Katya, and one of his possible fathers, Nikolai Jakov. Barry's robot skeleton can be seen a few times, which is reminiscent of the terminator's endoskeleton.
- Boris is the assistant to the KGB chief Nikolai Jakov, and sees him as a kind of father figure, which is why he sabotaged the paternity test for Archer. Boris later helps Jakov to escape from Barry and then serves as his assistant. Boris initially has good ideas, such as transforming the seriously injured Barry into a cyborg, but later his ingenuity wanes.
- Brett Bunsen works at ISIS in an unknown position and is constantly being shot by Archer or other people. He is shot dead by the FBI while storming ISIS headquarters at the beginning of season five.
Cast and dubbing
The synchronization occurs after a dialogue book by Stefan Eckel (Season 3, 4 & 6) and Stefan Kaiser (season 5) and the dialogue director of Eckel (season 3) and Kaiser (Season 4 to 6) by the synchronous company level 45 in Berlin .
| role | Original speaker | German speaker | Main role (episodes) |
Supporting role (episodes) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sterling Malory Archer | H. Jon Benjamin | Dennis Schmidt-Foss | 1.01– | |
| Lana Kane | Aisha Tyler | Britta Steffenhagen | 1.01– | |
| Malory Archer | Jessica Walter | Karin Buchholz (seasons 1–9) | 1.01– | |
| Nina Herting (Season 10) | ||||
| Cyril Figgis | Chris Parnell | Alexander Doering | 1.01– | |
| Cheryl Tunt | Judy Greer | Cathlen Gawlich | 1.01– | |
| Pam Poovey | Amber Nash | Almut Zydra | 1.01– | |
| Arthur Woodhouse | George Coe | Hasso Zorn | 1.01-4.11 | 8.01, 10.09 |
| Tom Kane | 5.01-5.09 | |||
| Roy McCrerey (young) | David Turba | 2.05 | ||
| Dr. Algernop warriors | Lucky Yates | Matti Klemm | 1.01– | |
| Ray Gillette | Adam Reed | Klaus-Peter Grap | 2.01- | 1.05, 07-1.10 |
| Len Trexler | Jeffrey Tambor | Helmut Gauss | 1.08,1.09,2.02,2.09 | |
| Nikolai Jackov | Peter Newman | 1.01-3.10 | ||
| Mannfred | René Auberjonois | Klaus Sunshine | 1.01– | |
| Uta | Kathryn Cressida | Antje von der Ahe | 1.01– | |
| Barry Dylan | Dave Willis |
Marius Clarén (season 1), Markus Pfeiffer (from season 2) |
1.01– | |
| Ramon Limon | Ron Perlman | Claudio Maniscalco | 1.01, 5.02 | |
| Rodney Whosits | Andrew Donnelly | - | 4.01-4.07.6.06 |
Charisma
The first season premiered on FX with 10 episodes . The first episode was broadcast as Sneak Peek on September 17, 2009. This was followed by further broadcasting from January 14th to March 18th, 2010. After good reviews, FX Network announced on February 22nd, 2010 that there would be a second season with 13 episodes. This started on January 27, 2011. At the end of March 2011, another 16 episodes were ordered, of which the first three episodes were broadcast from September 15, 2011 as a preview of the third season. The remaining episodes of the third season were shown from January 19, 2012. In February 2012, the series was then extended by a 13-part fourth season, which has been broadcast since January 17, 2013. On February 28, 2013, it was extended by a fifth season, which, as usual, consists of 13 episodes. The fifth season, titled Archer Vice , was broadcast from January 13th to April 21st, 2014. In March 2014 the production of two more seasons with 13 episodes each was announced. In June 2016, the series was extended to include seasons 8, 9 and 10. Contrary to the original announcement by series director Adam Reed that the series would end with the tenth season, an eleventh season was ordered in July 2019.
From the eighth season, the series will no longer be broadcast on FX, but on the partner channel FXX . The station announced this at the beginning of January 2017.
The US broadcast of the first season was seen by an average of 990,000 viewers, the target group rating was also quite low at 0.5 percent. The first nine episodes of the second season reached a total of 1.09 million viewers among the total audience with an increase of 10 percent. The target group reach remained consistently weak at 0.5 percent.
The German-language first broadcast of the first season ran from December 17, 2010 on Comedy Central Germany . The second and third seasons aired on VIVA between May 2 and July 25, 2014 . The fourth and fifth seasons were first released on Netflix on September 22, 2015 . The sixth season was first released on October 15, 2015. Season seven was released on August 15, 2016.
criticism
The English-language criticism was largely positive for the series. As the drawing style takes getting used to, the dialogues in the series were particularly praised. The many pop culture references and the scenario of the series were also received positively.
"David Hinckley thinks that you either have to love or hate Archer (" Archer "is one of those shows you're going to love or hate) , because it is sexist, racist, unhealthy, inappropriate and simply wrong (unbound by the rules of common decency, they talk and behave in ways did are sexist, racist, unsanitary, inappropriate and just wrong) , but she was also smart and witty (clever and funny) , they therefore with their own wit good enough is, to become adorable. (with its own wordplay and good enough that this love becomes endearing) "
"Jonathan Toomey says that Sterling Archer him to Don Draper from Mad Men remember (oft Reminded me of Don Draper) is less go and espionage, but about the people and their neuroses (Archer has very little to do with spies and espionage and instead focuses on the relationships between the folks in the […] ISIS and their various neuroses) . Likewise, the dialogues are funny and the characters are pleasant. (the dialogue is funny, the characters are enjoyable) "
"Alan Sepinwall thinks that the series is built around two central jokes , namely the selfish, borderline sociopath Archer, who treats women, employees and animals badly (selfish, borderline sociopath who treats women, his co -workers and even animals badly) and the fact that even a spy agency is a workplace like any other . Overall, he liked the show as he had to laugh out loud with every episode. (laughed frequently and loudly at all) "
The German critics also received the series positively and highlighted the English-language plot and dialogues.
"Crude sayings, bizarre courses of action, unfamiliar sex practices and a spoiled agent whose life is only endangered again and again through his own inadequacy - that's Archer."
"For many fans of the Simpsons or Family Guy , Archer will definitely be a little unfamiliar, but should definitely get a chance, because good comedy is few and far between."
DVD release
United States
- Season 1 was released on December 28, 2010
- Season 2 was released on December 27, 2011
- Season 3 was released on January 8, 2013
- Season 4 was released on January 7, 2014
- Season 5 was released on January 6, 2015
- Season 6 was released on March 29, 2016
- Season 7 was released on March 28, 2017
Great Britain
- Season 1 was released on May 2, 2011
- Season 2 was released on March 26, 2012
- Season 3 was released on July 1, 2013
Germany
The 1st to 10th season of the series are available in the media library of the streaming portal Netflix Germany.
Awards
- Emmy
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The Comedy Awards
- 2011 - Animated Comedy Series (nominated)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Broadcast April 25, 2018 - June 13, 2018/8 episodes Archer - Season 9 , moviepilot.de
- ↑ David Gordon: Interview with JG Thirlwell. In: Aēsop. Retrieved April 7, 2020 .
- ↑ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1486217/
- ↑ a b Archer. In: synchronkartei.de. German synchronous index , accessed on June 9, 2016 .
- ↑ Bill Gorman: FX's 'Archer' Returns Jan 27; 'Lights Out' Premieres Jan 11 . TV by the Numbers . November 30, 2010. Retrieved March 30, 2011.
- ^ A b Rainer Idesheim: Archer: FX Networks ordered 3rd season . Serial junkies . March 30, 2011. Retrieved March 30, 2011.
- ^ Alan Sepinwall: Comic-Con 2011: FX's 'Archer' brings the raunch . Hitfix . July 21, 2011. Archived from the original on July 26, 2011. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved July 25, 2011.
- ↑ Robert Seidman: FX Announces Fall Premiere Dates for 'Sons of Anarchy,' 'It's Always Sunny,' 'American Horror Story' & 'The League' . TV by the Numbers . July 20, 2011. Retrieved July 20, 2011.
- ↑ Christian Junklewitz: Justified, Archer: FX announces mid-season start dates . Serienjunkies.de . November 9, 2011. Retrieved November 29, 2011.
- ^ Robert Seidman: FX Renews 'Archer' For A Fourth Season . TV by the Numbers.com . February 23, 2012. Archived from the original on February 27, 2012. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved February 24, 2012.
- ^ Sara Bible: Return Dates for 'Justified', 'Anger Management', 'Archer', 'Legit' and 'Totally Biased' Announced, Premiere Date for 'Legit' . In: TV by the Numbers . November 28, 2012. Retrieved November 28, 2012.
- ↑ Christian Junklewitz: Archer: FX ordered 5th season . In: serial junkies . February 28, 2013. Retrieved February 28, 2013.
- ↑ Dominic Patten: FX Renews 'Archer' For Two More Seasons . In: Deadline.com . March 6, 2014. Retrieved March 7, 2014.
- ↑ Daniel Holloway: 'Archer' Renewed by FX Through Season 10 /. Variety , June 21, 2016, accessed October 26, 2016 .
- ↑ Seth Kelley, 'Archer' Creator Says Show Will End After Season 10. Variety , October 1, 2016, accessed October 26, 2016 .
- ↑ Bjarne Bock: Archer: FXX ordered 11th season of the animation series. Serienjunkies.de, July 20, 2019, accessed on July 21, 2019 .
- ↑ Nellie Andreeva: 'Archer' Moving To FXX For Season 8 As Network Ramps Up Animated Offerings. Deadline Hollywood, January 4, 2017, accessed January 17, 2017 .
- ↑ Uwe Mantel: Comedy Central shows the new cartoon series "Archer" . DWDL . November 4, 2010. Retrieved March 30, 2011.
- ↑ http://netflixdeutschland.blogspot.de/2015/09/neue-fernsehsendung-di-sep-22-2015.html
- ↑ Henning Harder: Play By Day: Germany start of the 6th season Archer on Netflix . serienjunkies.de . October 15, 2015. Retrieved March 13, 2016.
- ↑ Henning Harder: Play By Day: German premiere of the 7th season Archer . In: Serienjunkies.de . August 15, 2016. Retrieved August 15, 2016.
- ↑ deadline.com (February 15, 2011) Announcement of the nominations for The Comedy Award 2011
Web links
- Archer in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Official website of FX
- Creation of a scene in the series , Rolling Stone article (English)