Archer 2x12 'White Nights' Full Length Reaction
Added 2025-08-12 02:00:05 +0000 UTCComments
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wc
2025-08-14 00:48:01 +0000 UTCHow are you a superpower? Love the Soviet Russia bashing in this one.
LookingForOwls
2025-08-12 18:31:21 +0000 UTCThis is one I quite like because it pays off a lot of previous setup, and sets up a lot of things that will return in future episodes. “White Nights” is another term for the near-polar latitude phenomenon also known as “midnight sun.” It is the title of a Dostoyevsky short story about doomed romance that has been filmed a number of times, but I think the episode writers were thinking of an unrelated 1985 movie with the same title, which stars Mikhail Baryshnikov playing a character similar to himself, a Russian ballet star who defected to the West. Unfortunately, he is on an international flight when the aircraft is disabled and forced to crash-land in Soviet territory. The KGB puts out the story that he was injured and requires hospitalization before he can be released, while taking him to Moscow and planning a propaganda coup about his voluntary return to the USSR and the Bolshoi stage with his former dancing partner, played by Helen Mirren (who, as you may know is half-Russian–birth name Illyena Mironoff–and speaks Russian fluently. She later married the movie’s director, Taylor Hackford, breaking with her partner of 5 years, Liam Neeson–whom she met while they filmed 1980’s “Excalibur”.). Instead, he plans a daring, action-packed escape with a black American who defected to the USSR because of his experiences in the Vietnam War, played by Gregory Hines. Hines has married a Russian woman played by Isabella Rossellini, but has become disillusioned because the allegedly classless society is still quite racist to non-whites. Mostly, it’s an excuse to pair a renowned classically-trained ballet dancer and a renowned jazz tap dancer with Twyla Tharp’s choreography plus some 1980s pop hits–Lionel Ritchie’s “Say You, Say Me” charted #1 on Billboard’s Top 100 and won the Oscar for Best Original Song. I know that’s long, but the “Archer” writer’s room are definitely borrowing numerous elements from that movie, although they change a lot of specifics to fit their story. And included a reference to "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" when Archer and Barry work themselves up to jump off the balcony.
WUStLBear82
2025-08-12 05:06:11 +0000 UTC
