As the first season progresses, Sterling continues to find himself in situations due to his arrogance and turns on the very people he ignores and ridicules the struggle to help him solve his problem. This poses a fascinating parallel to US bank bailouts, requiring aid and use of taxes on middle-class money, despite their policies helping bank executives become so rich . On the surface, Archer really seems like a TV show about a happy-go-lucky but inexplicably competent spy agency, and as the episodes progress and the layers begin to grow and develop, you begin to see the facade of their skill disappear. ISIS, the agency, fails on almost every mission they are hired for, so much so that Mallory, Sterling's mother, sends them on missions under false pretenses so that their failure will work positively in their favor. Episode 8 of Season 4 titled Coyote Lovely involves complex manipulation carried out by Mallory. In one episode, Sterling derails the mission of a woman he believes to be the perpetrator, but who is essentially the key part of the big mission. Sterling falls head over heels when he sees her and offers to help her take the illegal immigrants across the border with her, then ends up being shot and in the last three minutes of the episode, the alleged perpetrator reveals that Sterling doesn't It was just the essential piece. in the game of chess, such was the episode. Archer is an incredible satire of modern America, so much so that there is an article about the satirical properties of Archer and the article is literally titled