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, and the final season for Reed as a full-time

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" trilogy (preceded by ''

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'' and '' Archer Danger Island''), consisting of nine episodes, it aired from May 29 to July 31, 2019, on FXX.

Production

FXX announced that Season 10 would see a change in setting yet again, now with this series taking place in outer space. 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. This is the first season where creator Adam Reed has not written every episode for the season.

Synopsis

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. At the same time, Cyril is the onboard accountant as well as Lana's lover, Pam is a hulking rock golem-like

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, Cheryl/Carol is a bloodthirsty/suicidal space fighter pilot, Ray is a gay courtesan (á la

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scientist/doctor on board, and "Mother", or Ms. Archer, is holographic AI

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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. The crew has sci-fi space operatic adventures with the usual hijinks, which is inspired by the aesthetic and homage to

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's ''Alien'''s space trucker crew. In the last two 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 that he has gone completely insane. At the end of the season, Sterling awakens from his coma in the hospital, three years after being shot.

Episodes

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External links

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