REVIEW: ARCHER “The Wind Cries Mary “

Sooooooo, who is Mary?

Spoilers Below

Sterling’s old friend,  Lucas Troy, is apparently dead according to Malory but Archer finds out otherwise and tracks him down in what looks to be a frigid cold forest. Lana and Cyril soon follow to find that Archer is at a bed and breakfast with with a maybe gay Lucas. Once Lucas finds about Archer’s tale, he drugs his old friend in hopes of kindling a said gay relationship after he just finished killing off his former agency. With Archer knocked out, Lucas puts cuffs on them then starts up a gun battle with Lana until she runs away looking for new ammo. Archer comes to, gut you can tell he’s a bit woozy as hes trying to figure out why Cyril stripped himself of his clothes!

Turns out, Lana put together a sort of trap to kill Lucas, for real this time. Unfortunately for Archer, Lucas uses this opportunity to tell his old friend a horrible truth…

Apart from the B-plot with the employee reviews, this week’s episode had a bunch of great one-liners that seemed to catch me off guard one after another. My personal favorite being the obvious ode to Predator! That said, I like how characters like Ray and Cyril are becoming more integral to plots but I do think the whole ‘Lana has to go track down Archer to save him from something’ deal is starting to wear a little thin on me as I feel show writer Adam Reed goes to that well a bit too much. We had one last week, and now this week. Moreover, Tim Olyphant was I thought at best decent as Lucas, but certainly not the best guest star ever. Also, is Archer turning into a show that has guest stars every week ala The Simpsons?? We’ll have to check next week to find out.

(8.0 out of 10)