| Season Number: | 10 |
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| Network: | FXX |
| Num Episodes: | 9 |
| Prev Season: | Season 9 |
| Next Season: | Season 11 |
| Episode List: | List of Archer episodes |
Archer: 1999 is the tenth season of the animated television series, Archer, created by Adam Reed, and the final season for Reed as a full-time showrunner.[1] [2] The third and final part of the "coma dream" trilogy (preceded by Archer Dreamland and ), consisting of nine episodes, it aired from May 29 to July 31, 2019, on FXX.[3]
FXX announced that Season 10 would see a change in setting yet again, now with this series taking place in outer space.[3] As with the previous two seasons, the same voice cast would return as different versions of their characters. This means that Archer, who was found shot in actress Veronica Deane's pool after season seven, remains in a coma, and the events of the season are of his imagination.
These different versions have similar personalities to their "normal" counterparts but are in different jobs or roles and have different relationships. The season's premise sees Archer as the hard-drinking half-captain (with Lana Kane as the other half-captain) of the spacefaring M/V Seamus salvage ship.[3] [1]
This is the first season where creator Adam Reed has not written every episode for the season.
Sterling Archer in his comatose dreaming imagines that he is the captain of the "M/V Seamus (934TXS)", a space salvage freighter, co-captaining with his ex-wife Lana, with whom he is co-owner of the ship. Krieger is the android scientist/doctor on board, while Cyril is the onboard accountant as well as Lana's lover, and Ray is a gay courtesan (á la Inara Serra). Pam is a hulking rock golem-like alien, while Cheryl/Carole is a bloodthirsty/suicidal space fighter pilot, and "Mother", or Ms. Archer, is holographic AI avatar in the form of a glowing ball of light. Amongst the recurring characters are Barry-6, a rogue robotic space-pirate, and humanoid space-captain Brett.[4] [5] [6] [7]
The crew has sci-fi space adventures with the usual hijinks, which is inspired by the aesthetic and homage to Ridley Scott's Alien's space trucker crew. In the two last episodes late in the season, the borderline between dream and reality gradually begins to blur within its existence upon the sci-fi premise (which exists only in Archer’s imagination) as Archer gets flashes of the characters in their true forms and believes he is going insane. At the end of the season, Sterling wakes from his coma in the hospital, three years after being shot.[8]
See also: List of Archer episodes.