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Archer (1 Viewer)

New season premiers tonight (Thur, 3-31-16), check local times/listings

Trailer (dig the vintage '80s guitar)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhaEowME4T0

* Magnum, PI Theme

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnum,_P.I.


Theme music


The original theme music for the opening credits of the pilot episode was a mid-tempo jazzy piece by Ian Freebairn-Smith. This music was also used for the next nine regular episodes.[5] Beginning in Episode 12, it was replaced by a more uptempo theme more typical of 1980s action series by Mike Post and Pete Carpenter with guitar by Larry Carlton. (This theme had been used during the show and over the closing credits since Episode 8.) A longer version of this second theme ("Theme from Magnum P.I.", clocking in at 3:25) credited to Post was released as a 7" single by Elektra Records in 1982 and charted on the Billboard Hot 100 that same year, peaking at No. 25 on 8 May 1982.[6][7] This version also appeared on Post's 1982 album Television Theme Songs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gznsptq97pA

Know your famous TV theme song guitarists department - Larry Carlton Hill Street Blues/Steely Dan medley (Kid Charlemagne/Don't Take Me Alive)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMArrSjSjOo

VH1 Classic Albums - Aja excerpt (Deacon Blues) 2:25-4:00 mark

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfS5zCCZGWI 

cont. - Carlton also played rhythm guitar and orchestrated the studio musician charts on Black Cow and Home at Last (as well as the title track and Josie, and soloed on I Got The News) 6:45-7:45 mark

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nv7Qicg2Og&index=10&list=PLdWSlIxidQQHrZlEeCQVFdBmE3w2BSIcQ

 
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Bob Magaw said:
Last season just became avail. on Netflix.

Yes, it is a hilarious show, become one of my favorites (with Better Call Saul).

DVR reminder - new season returns Thur, 3-31-16.
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Awesome, finally! hate that FX doesn't show the reruns of the most recent season during the break and they weren't available for streaming.

 
Nice Thief reference (1981 neo-noir, Michael Mann director, James Caan, Jim Belushi and Willie Nelson actors, Tangerine Dream score, extended centerpiece gnarly "burn job" custom drill safe cracking scene largely sans dialogue ala classic caper/heist noir Rififi, avail. Criterion) 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sDNvDRQTag

 
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Excellent start that could segue into a multi-episode serial or even start off a season long story arc.

"Well, you shouldn't give me that power." :)

Begins a lot like classic noir Sunset Blvd. (police arrive at the mansion of a screen legend actress to find William Holden floating face down in the swimming pool).  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZmanNgLShg

 
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Lookalike? The Bond franchise did this a few times, in From Russia With Love (in the franchise's first pre-title sequence, Robert Shaw strangles an agent who appears to be Sean Connery, only to reveal it was a mask and part of an elaborate "simulation" - Star Trek and Monsters, Inc. movies also employed this kind of fake out simulation beginning), also You Only Live Twice with a fake burial at sea, and Blofeld was supposedly assassinated early, but it was merely a double in Diamonds Are Forever (doubles also used in The Prisoner Of Zenda, Prince And The Pauper and Kurosawa's Kagemusha, to name a few that come immediately to mind).  

 
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Watched tonight. Solid opening. Seems like they've upped the writing this time. The jokes fit better and weren't the whole show. This had a plot that was interesting. Gonna be a great season.

 
All of those references were standouts, new season already a well oiled machine in just the second episode, the noir genre has epic potential, with a plot as convoluted and intricate as The Big Sleep (when a PA noticed a potential hole plot that a murderer's identity wasn't clear, director Howard Hawks told him to ask original source material author and co-screen writer Raymond Chandler - he didn't know, either! :) ). The phone message during the brawl was hilarious, I don't recall ever seeing a scene like it so dependent on "off-camera" sound alone to carry the scene.

Wanna try yanking on the pipe (while handcuffed before being rescued)? Guess we're back to phrasing.   

The director of Zero Effect is I think the son of the co-screen writer of Star Wars. 

Trailer (probably my favorite Bill Pullman role, on the bonus plan, early, formative years Ben Stiller), quirky, off beat, at times comic, genre subverting, stylish and VERY underrated neo-noir, Ryan O'Neal also a good job.  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSH8Y3h5j-g 

 
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didn't love the last episode, especially the long drawn out not a voicemail scene

Earl Campbell reference was great though. 

season plot seems interesting enough though

 
Besides it showed someone that looked like Archer dead in a pool. It's not really a spoiler so much as the main plot point for the season since that scene happens in the future from where we are now.

 
SPOILER

Set up virtually identical to Tim Matheson's pitch to Chevy Chase in Fletch.

Also, when his client told Archer "Kill me", I was sort of reminded of arguably the best opening line in noir history, from DOA (the original with Edmund O'Brien, not the Dennis Quaid remake). He goes to the police station and states he wants to report a murder. When they ask who, he says me! :)  

 
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Bob Magaw said:
SPOILER

Set up virtually identical to Tim Matheson's pitch to Chevy Chase in Fletch.

Also, when his client told Archer "Kill me", I was sort of reminded of arguably the best opening line in noir history, from DOA (the original with Edmund O'Brien, not the Dennis Quaid remake). He goes to the police station and states he wants to report a murder. When they ask who, he says me! :)  
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DOA - great movie!

 
Wait, he's gay? I wonder if he knows Ray :lmao:  

A black astronaut, Cyril. That's like killing a unicorn!

 
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Bob Magaw said:
SPOILER

Set up virtually identical to Tim Matheson's pitch to Chevy Chase in Fletch.

Also, when his client told Archer "Kill me", I was sort of reminded of arguably the best opening line in noir history, from DOA (the original with Edmund O'Brien, not the Dennis Quaid remake). He goes to the police station and states he wants to report a murder. When they ask who, he says me! :)  
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Got the Fletch nod right away.

 
Blast from the past this week.

"Look, if this was easy, I wouldn't need to bury ladies out in the desert."

 
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Walking Boot said:
Well, I guess now there's also the possibility that it's not Archer in the pool at the start of the season, but some other poor sap in an Archer face mask courtesy of Kreiger. But my money is still on Cyborg Archer for next season.

Barry episodes are always great.
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Good catch, didn't put that together.

 
Reading Carol/Cheryl/Cherlene's wiki page made me realize there was a lot of stuff I either didn't pick up on, didn't put together or didn't remember from earlier episodes.

I guess I need to rewatch every episode from the beginning.

 
I binge watch this show every time my wife's not around.  She tried it once and her only comment was "all they do is yell at each other!"

 
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I watched it the other day but forgot to comment. I kind of saw that twist coming ever since they had the doubles episode. I was fooled though right at the last minute until he proposed. I was like, oh that's not Archer. 

 
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