Archer is a half-hour animated comedy that revolves around an international spy agency and the lives of its employees. Although their work of espionage, reconnaissance missions, wiretapping, and undercover surveillance is daunting and dangerous, every covert operation and global crisis is actually just another excuse for the staff to undermine, sabotage and betray one another for personal gain.
The series features the voices of H. Jon Benjamin as the highly skilled and incredibly vain master spy Sterling Archer, Aisha Tyler as Archer's fellow agent and ex-girlfriend Lana Kane, Jessica Walter as Archer's domineering mother and spy agency director Malory Archer, Chris Parnell as the easily-intimidated comptroller-turned-secret-agent Cyril Figgis, Judy Greer as Malory's loquacious dingbat secretary Cheryl, Amber Nash as the discordant human-resources director Pam Poovey, Adam Reed as gay voice of reason Ray Gillette, and Lucky Yates as the spy agency's possibly mad scientist/possibly clone of himself Krieger.