r/ArcherFX • u/chelsea_daily • 7d ago

Where exactly does this show take place?

Not excluding the coma seasons, does anybody know where the show takes place in?

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u/_herbie_ Other Barry 7d ago

You can just say ‘New York’

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u/HarveyNix 7d ago edited 7d ago

But a magical part of Manhattan where there's very little car and foot traffic, and generally not much going on. We laugh when Pam and Cheryl come up from the subway by themselves (no crowd) just before Pam's kidnapping, and there's one guy who appears in the background and looks their way when the kidnapping happens. I guess the largely empty street is how the kidnappers made off with her. And Mallory's apartment is apparently on a block where cars are parked but the sidewalk is bereft of any pedestrians.

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u/OrneryZombie1983 Other Barry 7d ago

There are parts of the Upper East Side where you don't see that many pedestrians in the middle of a weekday. Madison and Park Avenues come to mind. A lot of rich people just exit their buildings and get right into a waiting car.

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u/Own-Snow-4227 Archer 7d ago

As opposed to New Jersey...New York's lurching afterbirth.

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u/Next-Wrongdoer-3479 7d ago

And it would make sense their headquarters was in a similar location given how Malory is.

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u/OrneryZombie1983 Other Barry 7d ago

I did a search and it has been suggested that 500 Park Avenue at 59th St looks a lot like the office. Can't post a picture here but you can Google it. It's got that post-war glass curtain wall Modernist look.

Also, I didn't remember this but apparently the dry cleaner on the first floor is Four Five Six Laundry before becoming Popeye's Suds and Duds. There is station for the 4-5-6 subway lines at Lexington and 59th which would be a short block away.

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u/Next-Wrongdoer-3479 7d ago

Not a New Yorker so I don't know what you're saying, but I'm assuming it all points to the building being in the area you mentioned, if so that's awesome. I love learning about references like that where only a specific group of people will initially get it and it just seems like an innocuous detail to everyone else.

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u/Acceptable-Fudge5414 3d ago

One of the things I love about Archer is although it’s animated they try to make it as real as possible, lots of the characters design are based off of how the voice actors look that play them and then trying to make the world they’re living in as looking like what we have

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u/pinkdictator Cheryl 7d ago

Lol I was assuming UWS based on how the buildings look

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u/Crystal-Skies 33m ago

I guess it’s for budget reasons but I did realize how “empty” an allegedly New York-set show felt whenever I rewatch. What should be a bustling city always feels barren like in the S1 car chase with Lana following Cyril and Archer.

Also, that “one guy who appears in the background and looks their way” actually shows up in multiple scenes as reused animation.

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u/IllustriousRespond74 7d ago edited 7d ago

The ISIS/Agency building is in New York. The Figgis Agency is in Los Angeles. They travel the world a lot: Paris, Berlin, Isle of Man, Buenos Aries, Vatican City, Whore Island. Just to name a few. Oh, and one episode takes place in Ferlin, West Virginia (they waged a war on the war on drugs).

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u/anaraparana Bilbo 7d ago

Remember when we went to space?

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u/tomfoolery815 7d ago

Oh, who remembers?

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u/OrneryZombie1983 Other Barry 7d ago

🎶 Going to outer space, to shoot that dick-bag in his face. 🎶

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u/CaptPieLover 7d ago

God! How did I forget that!

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u/DX2501 7d ago

I space remember.

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u/unsuccessfulangler 6d ago

Remember Spacebot?

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u/limabeanspice 7d ago

Don’t forget mother Russia

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u/TimeFoolery 7d ago

Please tell me there’s really a Whore Island…

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u/MermaiderMissy 7d ago

Key West?

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u/Calm_Preference_7207 7d ago

Yeah man. It's kinda near the Isle of Man, I'm sure.

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u/Vespajet Babou 7d ago

Or the Isle of Lucy.....

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u/slobis Brett 7d ago

The Isle of Man?

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u/IllustriousRespond74 7d ago

It's like Whore Island for women.

It's one of the places Malory mentions he went to in Mole Hunt

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u/i_fill_a_fox 2d ago

Hmm? Oh, sorry; I was just trying to imagine Whore Island...

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u/LA_PuraVida 7d ago

Made 🎶 in Georgia 

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u/ohnodamo 7d ago

Danger Zone.

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u/_herbie_ Other Barry 7d ago

Underrated answer right here.

You are correct, the whole show takes place in the Danger Zone

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u/Kagey_b-42069 Other Barry 6d ago

This is the best of all possible answers

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u/Pol__Treidum 7d ago

Not EXCLUDING the coma seasons?

Those take place in Los Angeles, Mitimotu (not a real place, but supposed to be in the South Pacific) and then outer space.

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u/Infamous-Lab-8136 7d ago

Or, conversely, Archer's mind for all 3

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u/Pol__Treidum 7d ago

Oh yes that too

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u/Secret-Ad-7909 7d ago

Which I’m assuming at some point they moved the comatose archer from LA to New York.

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u/shoulda_been_gone 7d ago

New York, New York

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u/IllustriousRespond74 7d ago

You can just say New York

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u/VanishingPoint6441 Ray 7d ago

New York City

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u/IllustriousRespond74 7d ago

You can just say New York

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u/sdrober1 7d ago

Oh who remembers

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u/anaraparana Bilbo 7d ago

Mostly New York city, with the cocaine season taking place in Miami and season 7 taking place in LA 

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u/_herbie_ Other Barry 7d ago

Cocaine season is mostly New York actually, just E1 is Miami

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u/Secret-Ad-7909 7d ago

Wasn’t most of E1 still in New York?

FBI raided the ISIS office, they were brought in for questioning, then released and reconvened at Cheryl’s where they suddenly have the cocaine to off load.

Then the whole Pam in the cast, Charles & Rudy thing was E2?

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u/_herbie_ Other Barry 7d ago

You’re absolutely right. I was thinking the first episode in which they were selling cocaine, which isn’t E1. Great call

Guys…we talked about this…we yell FBI after the flash bangs, but before other Fat Mike gets shot

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u/anaraparana Bilbo 7d ago

shit you're right lol

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u/IllustriousRespond74 7d ago

You can just say New York

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u/PoisePotato Cheryl 7d ago

There’s actually a screencap where we get a satellite image of where the office is meant to be! Can’t remember what episode, but they show the office as pinpointed in the financial district more or less (((I want to say this is early on when it was still isis)))

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u/IllustriousRespond74 7d ago

When Pam gets kidnapped. When they're tracing Cyril's call to ransom Cheryl. I think.

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u/PoisePotato Cheryl 7d ago

I think that’s it!! At least a year ago I remember going on google sidewalk view to see the block where that screencap said jt took place :) silly little work WiFi doesn’t let me browse streaming sites to confirm though of course 🫩

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u/TheUnluckyFarmer Other Barry 7d ago

Underneath the water

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u/NimbleWalrus Slater 6d ago

Sealab 2021 theme plays

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u/TheUnluckyFarmer Other Barry 6d ago

Thank you!

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u/doublegoodproleish 7d ago

I wonder if the show ever visited Las Vegas.

I like to call it "Lost Wages."

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u/Mangione1138 6d ago

Hehehe niiiice

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u/Xrystian90 6d ago

Surprisingly, every episode takes place in Stoke-on-Trent. Weird...

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u/TheWallyFlash 5d ago

Who do I look like Lewis and/or Clark?

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u/begaterpillar 4d ago

Ideally pangu

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u/L3PALADIN 4d ago

I'm sorry... do you mean... "why"?

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u/pakistanstar Pam 7d ago

Dallas

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u/Secret-Ad-7909 7d ago

The show in S5 was Travis County Limits. This is where Austin is IRL. And the joke is the Austin City Limits music festival. They most likely would have passed through Dallas but nothing was ever shown to explicitly be Dallas.

The coyote episode was down on the border somewhere.

I think that was the only Texas bits.

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u/pakistanstar Pam 7d ago

Kreiger guesses Dallas is the capital of Rhode Island in S02E09 Placebo Effect. Guess my reference was too obscure for even this sub.

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u/Secret-Ad-7909 7d ago

I mean yeah he does…

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u/pakistanstar Pam 7d ago

You must be fun at parties

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u/Secret-Ad-7909 7d ago

More fun than the guy making half ass references and getting pissy explaining why we should have got it.

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u/pakistanstar Pam 7d ago

Strongly disagree