About “Archer” in a few words:

“Archer” is an American animated TV series that premiered in 2009 and has since become a cult classic. The show follows the misadventures of Sterling Archer, a self-centered and womanizing spy, and the team of agents he works with at the fictional spy agency ISIS. The show is known for its irreverent humor, fast-paced action, and intricate plotlines that often parody classic spy movies and TV shows. The show has won critical acclaim for its writing, voice acting, and animation style, and has been praised for its unique blend of humor and action.

Meet the characters from Archer

Sterling Archer

Sterling is the gloriously infuriating super-spy who looks like a movie star and acts like a frat boy who never grew up — somehow both brilliant and blindingly immature. He can shoot through a moving car roof while ordering a martini and simultaneously forget to call his mother (wait, he *loves* his mother? yes and no). He’s terrified of emotional commitment but will risk his life for a ridiculous one-liner, which is somehow his charm and his problem. Also he sings terrible jazz in the shower and claims to be allergic to responsibility (maybe he’s lying; maybe he’s not).

Cheryl Tunt

Cheryl is a chaotic glitter tornado wrapped in a silk scarf and an inheritance, completely unpredictable and honestly kind of a national treasure of weird. She flits between being sweetly clueless and dangerously unhinged (like, will-suddenly-start-a-fire unhinged), and her hobbies are simultaneously childlike and sinister — plushies, secret diaries, and probably a dangerous fetish for tiny hats. She’s often portrayed as fragile but also somehow terrifyingly resilient, which is the best kind of contradiction. Also she does weird old-timey dances when nervous and owns a lot of cats that may or may not be imaginary.

Pam Poovey

Pam is the office’s beating heart and also a fist made of steel — HR by day, occasionally a cocktail of violence and karaoke by night. She eats things aggressively, drinks even more aggressively, and will absolutely bench-press you then offer you a snarky compliment about your shoes. Terrifyingly competent in a fight, inexplicably soft with babies and tiny dogs — there’s a whole other woman under that tattoo sleeve, I swear. Also rumor has it she used to be a circus performer? Maybe. Probably.

Cyril Figgis

Cyril is the anxious, spreadsheet-loving accountant-turned-agent who tries so hard to be a hero and keeps tripping over his own dignity (adorable in a tragic way). He obsesses over rules and fairness and then makes painfully bad decisions out of fear or romantic ignorance — poor guy, bless him. Occasionally he’s surprising with stealth or tech skills and then immediately goes back to panicking about his mustache, which is both ridiculous and strangely endearing. He collects pens. Or no, was it stamps? Either way, very organized, mostly.

Lana Kane

Lana is the lethal professional with a no-nonsense glare that will ruin your day and your plans, both in the field and in the break room. She’s fiercely competent, insanely well-trained, and has zero patience for incompetence (looking at you, Sterling), but secretly has a soft spot for the people she loves — and for a well-planned spreadsheet, oddly. She’s equal parts tactical mastermind and emotional anchor, and she will absolutely disarm you with a silenced pistol and then roll her eyes at your terrible jokes. Also rumor: she has a cute secret hobby involving extremely aggressive gardening? Or kickboxing in the rain. Both could be true.

Malory Archer

Malory is the imperious matriarch whose opinions are laws and whose cigar smoke has likely shaped the office layout — unapologetic, razor-sharp, and devastatingly manipulative. She runs the place with venom-coated velvet and treats love like a tax bracket: useful but bound by profit (and by her standards, everyone fails). Somehow she can be brittle with a flash of sentiment about something tiny (a chipped teacup? a childhood dog?), which ruins her reputation for exactly three seconds. Also she hoards war stories like trophies and has the most punctual scathing barbs you’ll ever hear.

Doctor Krieger

Krieger is the delightfully creepy mad scientist who may or may not be human, may or may not have cloned a dozen versions of himself, and definitely keeps questionable things in jars. He speaks in unsettlingly calm tones about ethically dubious experiments and then drops a one-liner that somehow makes it worse and funnier, and you’re left both horrified and oddly impressed by the creativity of his crimes. He’s weirdly proud of his weirdness and collects toys/oddities like trophies — maybe beanie babies, maybe finger bones, who can say. Also, his backstory is probably a lie, also probably true.

Ray Gillette

Ray is the dry-witted, impeccably patient field operative who keeps the team from imploding and will roast you with polite accuracy. He’s clever, compassionate, and quietly ferocious when it matters — solid sense of humor, quicker with the quips than his gun (but both are on point). He balances sarcasm with real moral backbone and genuinely feels like the person you want in the foxhole (or at a chaotic office party). Also he has weirdly great taste in sweaters and once did a surprisingly emotional interpretive dance at three in the morning — don’t ask.