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Archer's portrayal of the CIA in archer vice (S5) is incredible.
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I absolutely love this series, and one of my favorite aspects of it is how the CIA is portrayed.

  • The CIA contracts a shoddy spy agency that doesn't have a liscence to conduct espionage to sell their cocaine
  • The CIA pose as FBI agents
  • the very first run in they have with the CIA is when Slater, a dude in a t shirt going by a mononym, shoots archer with a bean bag before he even has a second to speak.
  • The CIA is both selling arms to the dictator of a small nation, as well as organizing an insurrection against said nation's government, all in the name of padding out their annual budget. Just this is absolutely insane, hilarious and also very much something that the CIA would be capable of.

Season 6 has some incredible CIA moments as well:

  • the CIA contract ISIS for missions that would be considered incredibly important, knowing that they're gonna fudge it up because they're trying to distance themselves from ISIS (and presumably the threat of Mallory going to a higher up who she's had an affair with at some point to get Slater/Holly admonished)
  • the CIA brings incredibly potent experimental technologies with them on these capers, probably so they can test them out without any sort of oversight
  • The CIA jack lana's dad's research, claiming that it would cause a war if it got into the wrong hands. We can infer that it's more likely that they're doing this in the interest of oil companies.

IMO this is one of the best portrayals of the CIA I've ever seen in fiction. They are made to seem not only scary in their complete disregard of human lives and their access to an insane amount of ressources, but also goofy and whimsical. And honestly, hearing details about actual CIA operations and experiments only reinforces that portrayal; From sketchily dosing anyone and everyone with experimental drugs, to trying to create gadgets based on things they've seen in james bond flicks or in sci fi novels.

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These can all be true. That doesn't detract from the point or this thread.

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