Obliterated is an American action comedy-drama television series created by Jon Hurwitz, Hayden Schlossberg, and Josh Heald. The series stars Nick Zano and Shelley Hennig. It was released on Netflix on November 30, 2023.
After leveraging '80s nostalgia and a love of martial arts movies into a bonafide streaming hit, the creators of Karate Kid continuation Cobra Kai have turned their attention to the explosive, slightly silly but always entertaining action thrillers of the '90s with their new Netflix series.
The series centers around a force of CIA agents who are on their way to save Las Vegas from an explosion. Their target is to bring down a Russian arms dealer, who is the mastermind behind a plot to bomb the entire city. However, the journey to find and disarm the nuke is not an easy one because the CIA agents are heavily dosed on psychedelics. Imagine having to track down a volatile nuclear bomb in the city of Las Vegas while under the influence of every drug under the sun. Well, the elite team at the center of Netflix’s newest action-comedy series Obliterated doesn’t have to imagine, because that is the exact situation they find themselves in and across eight episodes, we follow them through their hangovers as they try to save the city from being decimated by the bomb.
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The Plot Unfolds
Obliterated follows an elite squad of operatives, led by Ava Winters (Shelley Hennig) and Chad McKnight (Nick Zano), who thwart a terrorist threat and then celebrate in style, hitting Las Vegas to drink, do drugs, and hook up with each other. There's only one catch: it turns out the nuke they diffused was a decoy, and the real bomb is still out there. Only now, they're all in various states of inebriation, and must blunder their way through their urgent mission in The night of revelry that kicks off the plot is bawdy enough, with Ava and Chad getting it on in style and tech expert Maya (Kimi Rutledge) recreating the iconic whipped-cream bikini scene from the late '90s comedy Varsity Blues-but it's the penultimate episode which delivers the show's most memorable sex scene.
The first few episodes of Obliterated are some of your standard action-genre fare with the good guys, led by Shelley Hennig’s character Ava Winters and Nick Zano’s Chad McKnight, chase after the bad guys all over the city. It’s not until the final couple of episodes that we start to see some genuine twists and turns.
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Walks of Shame: A Key Episode
Walks of Shame is the fourth episode in Season 1 of the Netflix series, Obliterated. In the present, the crashed chopper leaves Angela with the bride's phone, Paul still tripping, and the team on foot searching for the Russian compound. Ava leaves Paul to wander back to Vegas, while Hagerty and the rest use an inflatable raft. At the helicopter, Lana and Trunk get captured by Russians, and Ava's group faces an impassable mountain in the desert.
Paul arrives at Caesar’s Palace, demanding to be taken to Jen's room, but he's stopped by Russians pointing guns. Tied up and beaten for Litvin's information, Paul dispatches guards to stop the leader. In the desert, Angela and Lerner try to move Hagerty, facing doubts until Lerner slips into a scorpion-infested mining shaft.
In the Bachelorette Suite, Paul and Jen's date find her missing. A call reveals the Russians have her at The Syndicate. Paul tips off the police and heads there on foot. A big firefight ensues, mirroring another in the desert where Angela and Lerner defeat goons. Paul hugs Jen, realizing he tripped the whole experience, not in Vegas.
Key Characters and Their Development
Ava Winters and Chad McKnight
Being the leader of the elite force, Ava Winters could be seen as a strong and determined CIA operative who had always been focused on her work.
Episode 7, "Make It Rain," sees Ava and Chad give into their mutual attraction once again, kissing passionately in a hotel room while "Sweet Emotion" by Aerosmith helps to set the mood in the background. It's a textbook love scene straight out of the kind of pulpy flick to which the show is paying homage-until Ava looks over Chad's shoulder and realizes they aren't alone, and are being watched.
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The voyeur in the room with them? A camel.
"That's Joey," says Chad. "He's cool."
Ava, however, protests that she won't be able to climax if there is a camel "staring" at her, and so Chad spins her around, but then he starts to find Joey's watchful gaze distracting. The scene is cut short by the arrival of the team, who comment on Ava and Chad being a "couple of freaks" for bringing the camel into the bedroom.
Ultimately, the only actual hump in the scene belongs to Joey.
The Climactic Showdown and Resolution
Anastasia comes close to outsmarting Ava and her team after she lures them to a rooftop and they discover the luggage she’s been carrying around does not contain the bomb after all. She actually swapped it earlier to mislead the Americans.
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Luckily, the team is smart enough to backtrack with the help of their tech girl Maya and they track the real bomb to the casino floor. There, the team’s bomb tech Hagerty (C. Thomas Howell), who has been having his own crazy adventure through the city after being knocked out for hours and then getting married shotgun-wedding style to a singer, arrives on a camel just in time to disarm the bomb and save the day.
The season ends with the team getting to celebrate properly this time and Ava and McKnight having sex again, this time to completion.
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