Archer, Season 4

A couple of years ago, in one of our weekly Slate culture meetings, an editor suggested that we run an assessment of the FX Network. The idea, as I remember it, was to figure out to what extent FX was becoming one of the new powerhouses of original cable series, in the same class as, say, AMC. At the time, we could only point to Sons of Anarchy as an example of FX’s dramatic programming...