Archer is easily the best show on tv. Can’t wait for Thursday.

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Start Watching Cartoons Again

Specifically, FX’s Archer. Stream this one on Netflix and rediscover the joys of childhood via a mega douchey, albeit lovable secret agent. GQ’s Eric Sullivan explains: 

Cartoons are a challenge to endorse. No matter how much I defend them, you’ll read this column through the judgmental prism that assumes I’m a Peter Pan at heart. I get it. Just hear me out on this one: Archer is as smart as any show on television right now.

The titular character, voiced by the hyper-gifted H. Jon Benjamin, stars as a cunning spy with an ego the size of the U.S. public debt. He works for a CIA-esque organization run by his mother, played by Jessica Walter (the brilliantly acidic Lucille Bluth from Arrested Development). The other employees of the organization, from covert spies to incompetent secretaries voiced by talents such as Chris Parnell and Judy Greer, round out the cast.

Archer pokes fun at the hokey drama and intrigue of classic spy shows, but in a loving way—this is homage as much as parody. And it’s absurdity that has run of the game.