Netflix viewers stunned by ‘graphic’ nudity in new series Obliterated

Critics are calling it “the worst show of 2023” – but Netflix viewers seem more hung up on just how wildly explicit this new series is.

The new show Obliterated on Netflix.

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.

Obliterated tells the story of a team of elite forces, racing to save Las Vegas from a terrorist attack.

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.”

Critics are hating the show …

… viewers are more distracted by something else.

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:

If Obliterated had premiered a week ago, countless Thanksgivings would have been really awkward when families innocently sat down to watch a quirky new Netflix action-comedy, not knowing some fairly graphic nudity awaited. It’s almost like Netflix designed an Andy Sidaris AI.

— The D.C. Universe (@dcuniverse) November 30, 2023

Watching "Obliterated"

I can not believe that Netflix gave them (A lot!) a money for this

It's like a Z list Hangover + The Expendables + 2000's Cinemax skinflick (So. much. nudity)

It's terrible, but I can't look away 😂

— Ryan RC Rea (@volvoshine) December 10, 2023

So Netflix has a new Godawful series called Obliterated. It has everything - nudity, drugs, alcohol, vulgar language.

My problem: Why isn't this censored? The content is near-pornographic

Netflix should have said no to a show that is this objectively painfully unwatchable. 3/10

— Regina Dulanjali (@ReginaDulanjali) December 1, 2023

This ‘Obliterated’ show on Netflix is pretty decent although the sex scenes and nudity (including a male stripper squirting whipped cream along his todger) is a bit uncomfortable when watching with mam 🤣

— Dave (@Yellowbug1969) December 11, 2023

The full frontal nudity in Obliterated on Netflix is WILD. I’ve never seen so many dicks in a show 😂

— Paul Broughall (@PaulieBroughall) December 17, 2023

#Obliterated had so much nudity! 🫨

— Encouraging Tomfoolery (@iBen_jam_in) December 16, 2023

😂The nudity in "Obliterated" is insane

— +234 Yardie (@_moregie) December 2, 2023

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.”