REVIEW: Archer “Vicious Coupling”

Spoilers Below

So, everyone seems to have someone on this Valentine’s Day including Cyril who is now fucking Lana. That said, those two aren’t the only ones rekindling an old flame when Archer gets a call from Katya and like the Sterling we all know and love he speeds over to her place in his El Camino with flowers and chocolate faster then you can say, “Where is Barry?” Turns out Archer’s nemesis is wholed up in space and Katya convinces Sterling to help get him back to Earth so that she can break it off and run away with Archer. Lost? Yea me, too. Archer enlists Kreiger to help with getting Barry back by showing him how to fix his space prison so that he can get back.

Meanwhile, Cheryl and Malory are trapped in a closet so as to not interrupt Archer’s ruse but eventually Carol sets them free right when Archer and Pam are putting together cut up clips of Barry talking shit about Katya.  Then the cyborg bitch finds out, Barry and Kreiger get the evil doers ship working and now he’s on his way back for a robot fight! Just not tonight…

How bout them apples, huh folks?? Cyril and Lana back together and what a way to intro that story arc…with SCREWING! Also, who would have thought that Archer still had feelings for Katya after what happened at the end of last season? This week’s Archer provided some great plot points of which I am eager to follow until conclusion. To be honest I got a little lost with Cheryl putting Malory and Lana in a closet and whether or not it was entirely necessary for the plot, but I let it pass because the scene in the shitters was pretty rad.  Also of note it was great seeing Barry Dillon aka Dave Willis as he always provides a decent jolt of laughs as a result of his obsession with wanting to fight Archer. The ending kind of left the door open if we should expect some sort of a showdown between the two and if that happens it will be interesting to see which side Katya takes. The super sexy Ona Grauer continues to wow and impress me as an actress, as somehow the Mexican/American pulls off a primo Russian accent. Looks like we’ve got ourselves a bilingual bloodfest brewing in the next few weeks, should be interesting to watch.

(8.5 out of 10)