Stephen Weber’s Dr. Archer came on board the series for recurring appearances in Season 6, then scrubbed up as a regular in Season 7 and is back again in the same capacity for the show’s current eighth season (per Deadline). More or less from his initial episodes, the doctor’s gruff bedside manner with patients and his refusal to play nice with his co-workers has alienated him from both the hospital staff and, it turns out, with fans as well.
Posting about Archer in a discussion on the show’s subreddit tellingly titled “What is Dr. Archer’s problem,” fan u/AurynSharay complained that the doctor appeared inexplicably affronted when Dominic Rains’ character Dr. Crockett Marcel successfully identified an anonymous John Doe patient. “Isn’t that what should happen?” they wondered. Redditor u/VMCoco didn’t mince words to add their opinion that Archer is “Just an a*****e. They try to soften him up as the episodes go on but…its like eh too much scorched earth dude.” Chi-Hard fan u/mxndygbx feels Archer is simply an archetypal persona within the medical education field, writing, “He is just and old school military doctor, that’s all. You’ll find them as teachers at universities and hospitals, they will teach you a lot but they’re insufferable.” And, apparently, the antagonistic feelings about Archer extend to his family, too. As noted on Chicago Med Fandom, the doctor has a son he hasn’t exchanged words with in over a decade.
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