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Obliterated is an 80 IQ hot mess of nonsensical nonstop fun and I really hate how much I enjoyed it.

There are disgusting prosthetic phalluses and oddly tight character arcs. Shoehorned diversity mixed in equal parts with political self awareness. For every genuinely depraved scene there's an equally wholesome and touching family moment. This series is everything that is wrong with bad action films, and everything that made the hangover a classic. It is so reductive that it manages to be original. This show has three plot holes for every topless woman. I've never, ever, in all my years seen something quite like this show.

7 out of 10, I hate it.

Obliterated doesn't try anything it's not. It knows exactly what it is and that's an action comedy that spoofs those kind of films. My brother and I just finished it watching a t and we both said that we hoped they do another season. We grew up as kids in the 80's and 90's so we know all about the films this show was making fun of. Besides being a funny action series, it's also a pretty solid "get the terrorist" series. I read somewhere that it compares the counterterrorism thriller of 24. I can definitely see that. The entire cast is great here, especially Nick Zano. He's so good in this, I hope this leads to bigger things for him. He's definitely the stand out here. I liked him in Legends of Tomorrow but he is perfect for this role. He steals every scene he's in. Also, Shelley Hennig is as beautiful as ever and does a good job with Zano leading this rag tag group.

I had no idea what to expect when I started watching Obliterated, the reviews were mostly positive and I thought the trailer looked pretty good so I thought I'd give it a chance. I'm so glad I did. This show had me laughing out loud at least a few times per episode. I had fun the entire time I was watching. Even though it makes fun of movies from the Sly/Arnold era, it also pays respect to them too. This show isn't going to win any awards but if you can just turn your brain off for little while I promise you that you'll have fun watching this. I actually binged all 8 episodes in a couple days. It's funny with plenty of action and twists to hold your interest every episode.

Obliterated is like '24' meeting the juvenile sensibility or hysterics of 'American Pie' and 'The Hangover.' It's crass, juvenile, and full of R-rated humor, but all that is part of its charm. It's just a fun, consistently entertaining show where you can shut off your brain and enjoy all the shenanigans it has to offer. It's mindless fun. I laughed a lot throughout its eight episodes, and despite the show's shortcomings, it definitely won me over and then some. The show delivered what it promised: a great, hilarious escape full of over-the-top action, juvenile characters plucked right out of '80s movies, as well as a game cast who knew what they were in for.

An American cross-services military team has been assembled to track down a loose nuke possibly in Las Vegas. Ava Winters (Shelley Hennig) is the intelligence leader. Chad (Nick Zano), Trunk (Terrence Terrell), and Angela Gomez (Paola Lázaro) are the muscle. Haggerty (C. Thomas Howell) is the unusual bomb tech. Maya Lerner (Kimi Rutledge) is the shy computer tech. Paul Yung (Eugene Kim) is the Air Force pilot and protective father.

It's a Netflix action thriller comedy series. It's rated a little lower than most and there is a reason. It's not a series to be taken seriously. It's outrageous and silly and there are so many d's. It's a ridiculous time and it is a bit uneven. This very much depends on the viewer's mindset.

This show is horrible. I love it.

An updated, contemporary take on old school early-'80s action television.

Does it make sense? No.

Are there plot holes? Absolutely.

Is it riddled with tropes? All of the tropes.

Sophomoric humor? So much!

Is there any hint of realism or accuracy? None-whatsoever.

This kind of craft seems to be a lost art. Back in the day, bad but enjoyable, entertaining television was intentionally created to help you relax at the end of a hard day.

So much TV is unintentionally bad. But Obliterated revels in its unabashed badness. It is perfect in its execution.

Just remember that the goal here is to unwind and experience guilty chuckles and eye rolls after a big TV dinner.

In this endeavor, Obliterated exceeds all expectations. Each episode is non-stop fun.

Go buy an ugly fabric recliner at an estate sale and enjoy this modern take on old classics.

Based on the silly preview flick in netflix I almost didn't watch it, but oh boy how glad I am I did! Binge watched in two days as a matter of fact.

The characters are loveable, the writing is pretty tight and the twists are solid enough not to get boring by the end of episode 8. The fights are ridiculous, so are the jokes (in a good way) and I found myself laughing out loud more than what I can remember watching anything in recent memory.

I was only really bothered a very few times the series writers decided to descend into very graphical Jackass territory which I thought was unnecessary.

Other than that I would wholeheartedly recommend this series to anyone looking for some good old fashioned fun, unless you are sensitive to very graphic nudity, sex, drugs, camels, penile torture etc.

Yes the dialogue is cringy at times and the acting isn't great.

Yes its nonsensical and predictable.

But it's also over the top super fun. Reminds me of 90's comedies where they didn't give a damn and just made fun movies.

There's lots of comedy some of which I even burst out laughing which hasn't happened in a while. Action is decent with enough chases, gore, explosions, and fight scenes to keep it interesting. Then there's the over the top nudity scenes which are gross and sometimes hilarious.

Is it the best thing that has ever came out... No.

But it's an entertaining show worth watching.

I can like stupid shows that are fun as much as the next guy, but this is so contrived it is painful to watch.

Acting is fine until they try to act tough and macho. Then it sinks to putrid levels.

Dialogue is lame and cheesy.

Maybe it will improve, but damn it is hard to describe how bad this is. Special effects are good and people are pretty, nice butts. But, not enough to make me want to watch any more episodes.

Sex is even boring. I am not sure why they felt it necessary to include so much nudity, except to make up for the rest of the nonsense.

C Thomas Howell is the only redeeming actor in the bunch.

Outrageous, gratuitous nudity, violence and chaos. And I love it for that. Reminds me a lot of Blue Mountain State and the American Pie movies where things aren't supposed to make sense or provide deeper meaning, they're just fun for fun's sake. Honestly this show was a breath of pure entertainment fresh air. I loved the characters cartwheeling and crashing through each scene, and enjoyed turning off my brain and just letting it all wash over me. Choosing to do it as a series instead of a movie was a brilliant idea, crammed into a movie it would have felt washed out and done a million times before. Letting it all roll out over 8 episodes lets the show and characters really establish themselves. I hope more series like this get made!

I had never heard of this show. I was scrolling through my Yahoo news feed and saw a review of the show. The title of the review was so condescending I just had to read it. The author obliterated the show (pun intended). She was extremely critical of all the sex and gratuitous nudity. She basically said the show was a waste of time.

Of course, this made me want to watch it. I have to say, it lacks direction, the writing is poor, and there is a ton of filler to bloat it to eight episodes. Having said that, I LOVED THIS SHOW for the exact reasons the critic stated. It dumb as hell, but its a fun ride. The actors have really good chemistry and I binged watched it.

An elite special forces crew thinks they have stopped a nuclear terrorist attack in Las Vegas, so to celebrate, they get hammered on a combination of drugs, alcohol, sex, and other basic debauchery (a camel is involved). They then learn the plot they stopped was a decoy, so they have 7 hours to stop the real bombing. Still obliterated (hence the title) they spend the next 7 hours whacked out of their minds while trying to find a briefcase nuke.

Ava is a hardened CIA operative running the team who recently lost her fiance on a mission. McKinight is the Team Lead and resident hunk with an ego problem. Trunk is the muscle who can't ever seem to get something to eat. Gomez is the sniper, a Michelle Rodriguez knock off who is a lesbian and hides her emotions. Paul is the married helicopter pilot with family issues. Maya is the tech nerd who is in love with McKnight, but is too shy to say it. Lastly, there is Haggerty, the explosives expert who spends most of the series in a drug induced stupor. There is another character named Lana, a ditzy blonde who the team rescued during the original mission and she tags along as she has intimate knowledge of one of the villains. These characters all seem pretty standard on these types of shows, but the actors imbue them with just enough personality to make them stand out. Unfortunately, the villains are pretty one-dimensional which is really the biggest failing of the show.

There are a ton of gunfights, fist fights, sex, graphic nudity, humor and some pretty extreme torture scenes. In fairness, all the actors wind up nude at some point so there is definitely no inequality there.

Sadly, I think this is one of those one season events. The premise of the show could not be repeated and I don't think there is enough originality to the show for it to sustain a second season. Still, it was a fun watch and the show knew exactly what it was and didn't try to be anything else.

I suspect most of the positive reviews about this are paid reviews or from teenagers that are getting to watch Netflix without their parents for the first time.

For anyone else, there's nothing to like here. The plot is horrendously stupid. I'm usually OK with a suspect plot if there are other good things about the show, but this is just too stupid. The writing is also pretty bad, relying on teenage jokes about sex more than anything else.

I'd be OK with all of this if there was anything clever about the show, but there's not. I took the advice of some of the other reviews and gave it two more episodes, but it never got better.

Do yourself a favor and watch anything else.

Turn your brain off, stop being a snob and just enjoy totally silly chaos with loads of laugh out load moments and a hot and tallented main cast who totally pull it off. Think scorpion but with the competence of superstore and lots of naughtiness. It doesn't all work but enough does to make it work. Did every minute of Naked Gun get it right? Or Airplane? People are far too critical and just need to relax and have fun which is exactly what this let's you do. This made me laugh and forget all the bad stuff for a while, let's hope the boring naysayers don't stop a second series. Totally enjoyable, give at least 2 episodes a go.

Obliterated is what would happen if the Mission Impossible Movies and the Hangover Movies had a baby, raised their child in Florida, then set it to the biggest party college in Nevada. Then, after the child discovered there was no "super spy" degree, said child dropped out of college and got a job at the Las Vegas Tourism department.

Definitely not for everyone. It is raunchy, stupid, full of sex, drugs, and guns, but it also has a surprising amount of heart. The relationships can be very sweet, the characters are fun, and if you can suspend disbelief for the duration of the show, it's a fun ride.

To quote one of my favorite reviewers, "It's trash, but it's my trash."

I never expected to like this but we absolutely loved it. It has no right to be so good. It contains every cliche in the book. It should be cheesy but it's made with care and skill that results in a hugely entertaining end result, an explosive series with laughs and top level thrills. It's a teenage boy's wet dream of a series, Die Hard with titties and willies.

I sincerely hope that they make another season. The cast were all brilliant and I expect to see them turn up a lot more movies and shows over the coming years. The production value was as high as it gets.

Sex, drugs, guns, bombs and beautiful people.

Like so many other reviewers, I felt cheap and dirty watching this all-American teenage boy macho fantasy, with good-looking women taking their clothes off, incessant macho and over the top team cheers and whoop-it-up patriotism. And it is formulaic, plot holes galore.

But i didn't care, it was a great ride! Some plot arc surprised me and I absolutely knew how it was going to end. But once again, I didn't care.

And when it played out the usual stereotypical Russian vs American adversarial battles, again, I didn't care.

It was a blast watching this sho!

One thing that stuck in me:The Gomez character, the lesbian sniper, she seemed to be an almost exact duplicate of the tough woman marine Vasquez in Aliens. Anyone else see that?

9/10 why 9? Yes because it's super combination of action and comedy with comparing other low level series in 2023. There are some advanced 18+ nude scenes in every episode and i think that is someones giving bad reviews. But finally super one who likes action comedy plus 18+. (Story is bit same old US super heros who save the world but its different and using some good action on that).

I don't know how it got such low ratings, people must have taken this show too seriously but with a name like Obliterated how could you take it seriously.

The show brings a little bit of everything and even though its not the best action show you will see it was fun to watch. We finished the whole season (limited series) in two days. Watch it, you have nothing to lose.

When I first saw the trailer for this show I thought it was a movie. But found out that this is a show. And I will admit that it was cheesy but wow I was actually enjoying the dirty humor in it. And to be honest I think that the old man was the coolest character I have seen. I could not stop laughing at his moments.

Also I have no idea if Netflix will renew this show for a 2nd season. But if they do I hope they use the same cast because all the actors and actresses were really good in it. And to be honest am happy this show was not set in California or New York but in Las Vegas, Nevada. It's good to see a different state being used for a tv show location.

I hoped for an easy digestible fun adult action series. And it started out fun, but then it wanted to get serious yet neither the acting nor the script was supporting this. So it got really really boring.. Actually I was expecting Las Vegas to be gone by the end of 2nd episode and the team going to the next mission to fail. That would have been a new fun twist on things. Probably much closer to reality. In any case it made me write a review, which I haven't done for a long time. Some scenes were funny. If it wasn't for all the drug promotion could be rated 14. I recommend reading all the other comments. All seem to have the same kinda rating.

A lot of fun to watch. The girls are gorgeous. Shelly Hennig is really good. She has comedic talent and delivers her lines so well you laugh out loud.

There are a lot of laugh out loud funny scenes and lines.

I haven't laughed this much watching a show in a long time. It looks like the actors are enjoying their roles. There is a lot of action. A lot of twists and turns so you are looking forward to the next episode.

I hope they make a season two.

If you want humor, action, a decent story this is it.

Very fast paced. The bad guys were really bad. You'll recognize one in particular. He was born to play bad guy roles.

I was about 5 minutes into the first episode when I thought I wouldn't be able to get through it, much less the whole series. Now I'm on E3 and pretty sure I'll finish the series, except not as a binge, just filler when I feel like it.

How'd I get through it? I gave it a chance and remembered there used to be shows like this on broadcast TV. The TV landscape has changed so much over the last decade, but in a more serious direction, that tries (often successfully) to get us to binge. When something like this comes along, we automatically think it juvenile (which it is) from all the gross humor (which it has).

The acting by the lead is pretty bad, but everyone else is decent for the vibe of the show, which props her up. I think as long as you go in with a mindset of not taking it too seriously, it can actually be enjoyed. I'm thinking it's along the lines of late 90s outrageous comedy (Ace Ventura, American Pie, Dude Where's My Car) that we haven't seen in a while.

In Hollywood, there's a saying that goes "give me the same but different." Netflix's latest turd is filled to the brim with the same cocaine fever-dream absurdity you've seen before.

Neither charming or funny, "Obliterated" stars Walmart celebrities Billy Ray Cyrus, Allison Brie, and Michelle Rodriguez as America's top special forces team that likes to take drugs and kill terrorists. So cool, right?! This script must have been in a heavy bidding war between the studios, because they even managed to get C. Thomas Howell as the typical nostalgia bait.

If you like uninteresting actors, gratuitous T and A, and random bass drops in the sound mix to remind you how edgy and cool the show is, this might be for you! Just make sure you turn the volume down, or your parents might catch you.

The first episode started off in a way that, well, I thought it was cheesy over the top gratuitous type of work. Throughout, if you cannot handle raunchy then I understand.

However, because the picture quality ( nice camera ) was clearly well done, i.e., somebody invested in this production, I figured I'd go ahead and make it through episode 2. I'm glad I did, because then, it started to become clear what I was watching and why.

There is actually more going on here and you do develop an affinity with the characters.

There are well done subtle things all the way through, which are what you are really looking for, compared to the over the top type of scenes.

It is different, the gems, the "art", if you will, is not the face value of what episode one would suggest if you stop there thinking "what have I gotten into".

It is not right to jump to an immediate conclusion right at the beginning of this series. Power through at least a little bit, I think it will grab you; and give it the opportunity to be its own thing, don't compare it. <-- important.

Cover your eyes sometimes, no biggie :)

But the show obviously doesn't take itself seriously. It is full of plot holes and unlikely situations. But it just keeps plowing on. It is fun debauchery at it's best. Think of this as a combination of the TV series 24 and the movie The Hangover with a twist of Superbad. Obviously it isn't going to be for everybody but I'm already hoping it gets renewed for a second season.

Without giving too much away, I was sold in the sex scene from the first episode. "I said I love you to the camel". If that doesn't make sense to you, well you will just have to watch it.

Unfortunately we stumbled on this just before the holidays and had to keep skipping nights for family get-togethers and even Christmas.