Why space?

I’ll admit it: They got me.

Let’s get the most important element of “Space Pirates” out of the way right here at the start, shall we? Those…

Science fiction is all about possibilities, about pushing the boundaries of the real and bringing the improbable to…

I was inclined to like “Mr. Deadly Goes To Town” even before an overly polite, sentient bomb voiced by Matt Berry…

In last week’s review of “The Leftovers,” I spilled quite a bit of space-ink on the idea that Archer: 1999—which…

Of the 104 currently extant episodes of Archer, you can count the entries not written by series creator, showrunner,…

What is it about this show and making me fall in love with birds?

“Happy?”
“I’m…happy you’re not.”

[Before we dip into the episode proper, you might want to check out this interview we did recently with Archer creator…

If there’s a moral to tonight’s story, it’s this: Never fuck with Malory Archer’s booze.

Seven years ago, Archer did something weird: Starting in September 2011, the show kicked off its third season by…

It only took five episodes—i.e., more than half this season’s entire order of shows—but Archer has finally zeroed in…

I’ll confess: My immediate first thought when Archer’s old Spanish Civil War rival, Gunter Ziegler, showed up on…

So: That was kind of gross, huh? (And I’m not talking about all the bird shit.)

I figure I get about one of these reviews a year to just sort of riff on the general awesomeness of Pam Poovey. More…

So, hey: We should probably talk about the parrot, right?

If last year’s Archer: Dreamland was the animated show’s equivalent of a semester abroad—a fun but frivolous affair,…

So, what are we doing? Are we just jumping right into this? Because tonight’s Archer is one of the strangest,…

Way back at the start of this oddball season of TV, I wrote about how its premise—lodged as it is right in the…