A new series recently released to Netflix has been dubbed by some critics the “worst show of 2023” – but viewers are more shocked by the rampant sex and full-frontal nudity on display.
Released on the streamer on November 30, eight-part series Obliterated quickly topped Netflix’s most-watched list. The US action adventure show stars Nick Zano and Shelley Hennig as elite navy and CIA officers, recruited to stop a deadly terrorist attack on Las Vegas.
Sounds like your standard 24-esque special ops procedural… but the show’s Vegas setting means the characters also blow off steam in a town filled with sex, drugs and alcohol.
Critics have hated it: “Call off the search: the worst show of 2023 is here,” said The Telegraph. “That is, unless you’re a 13-year-old boy, in which case Obliterated is your dream product.”
The Guardian gave the show a withering one-star review, calling it “excruciating and repetitive” and quipping that after a few episodes, “nothing would seem more heroic than someone detonating the bomb and putting us all out of our misery.”
Variety’s review called the show “a baffling, nearly unwatchable hodgepodge of nonsense littered with penises and explosives.”
About those penises. Because while critics are hating on the show, it seems Netflix viewers who’ve watched it have had a different reaction – namely, that they’re not used to seeing a series quite so explicit on the platform:
The show comes with an R rating on Netflix, meaning it’s suitable for audiences aged 18 and over – although surprisingly given all that nudity, the only warning on the Obliterated landing page is for “high impact action violence.”
One particular sex scene in the show already made headlines after it dropped on the streamer at the end of November: It features two of the characters having sex in their Vegas hotel room, when they are interrupted by … a camel.
“Y’all got the camel watching? Y’all a couple of freaks,” one character quips when he catches them in the act.
It was perhaps the weirdest Netflix sex scene since the raunchy series Obsession premiered earlier this year, shocking viewers with a scene involving the main character and a pillow that one fan complained left them “traumatised.”