By now many of you would have heard of Fx's Archer and if you haven't you owe it to yourself to watch this ridiculously idiotic but incredibly hilarious sexual spy comedy that parodies everything cool about James Bond but somehow seems totally awesome nonetheless.
As you can see, we have the super spy ( guy in the middle) the hot other spy ( the girl with the gun) and various other bumbling characters who make this show a complete riot. In a nutshell Archer' activities include shooting people, banging women, screwing up missions, screwing women, shooting people who get in his way, having sex with more women and having his ass saved by his colleague Lana (mixed racial girl with gun in the picture), and then making sexually inappropriate remarks about her large hands.
Anyway, my question is, why do we love this utter idiocy. It's nothing new, people have been ripping on Bond for years. So why do people watch it every week? Why does stupidity sell? Is it because we love living vicariously through these utterly absurd characters or simply for the sake of meaningless laughs?
As you can see, we have the super spy ( guy in the middle) the hot other spy ( the girl with the gun) and various other bumbling characters who make this show a complete riot. In a nutshell Archer' activities include shooting people, banging women, screwing up missions, screwing women, shooting people who get in his way, having sex with more women and having his ass saved by his colleague Lana (mixed racial girl with gun in the picture), and then making sexually inappropriate remarks about her large hands.
Anyway, my question is, why do we love this utter idiocy. It's nothing new, people have been ripping on Bond for years. So why do people watch it every week? Why does stupidity sell? Is it because we love living vicariously through these utterly absurd characters or simply for the sake of meaningless laughs?
Taking a page from Tom, I guess? But this is a really good show. It's crude like South Park, but it makes up for not actually dealing with current issues by being respectably funny instead of just disgusting.
ReplyDeleteThere are countless movies and shows which are fun to watch just because they're stupid and it's great to make fun of them. Basically, "So bad it's good".
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