Archer - "The Wind Cries Mary" - Review

Jokes at the expense of gay characters for being gay is overplayed and often in poor taste. Archer manages to get away with it though because the character that’s the target of these jokes and jabs is paragon of masculinity Sterling Archer.

The high concept of the Bob’s Burger crossover has subsided, and though we don’t get anything nearly as interesting or memorable, this episode is far more focused, standard fare for an Archer outing that gets in more jokes per minute than the previous episode (which became so hung up on how to justify the Bob’s Burger crossover that everything was overshadowed by it).

While a good deal of the supporting players aren’t nearly as involved as I would have liked (there’s  not a whole lot of Cheryl, Pam, and Ray – and besides a bizarre running gag involving radioactive ants, there’s not much Krieger ). But that’s okay because this half-hour is all about Sterling and chipping away at his drunken, womanizing exterior. Archer is forced to accept more and more that his good friend Lucas Troy (an always welcome Timothy Olyphant) was probably gay and, more importantly, probably gay for him. This is territory well-worth exploring and the series does it in typically absurd, funny fashion.  

Grade: A-