![]() It’s the sort of series that never met a cliche it didn’t like. That operative turns out to be his own daughter, who has secretly followed in her old man’s footsteps and is not too happy to see him.įubar, created by action television veteran Nick Santora ( Prison Break, Reacher, the aforementioned Scorpion), boasts a lot of familiar action-comedy beats that won’t surprise anyone familiar with the genre. Luke not only has to travel to Guyana to thwart Boro’s plans, but to also exfiltrate a fellow operative whose cover is on the verge of being blown. Boro had a closeness to Luke as a child and only knows the agent by his cover identity. Boro (Gabriel Luna), the son of a notorious arms dealer that was killed by Luke, has decided to pick up where his dad left off, and is looking to unload a nuclear WMD that fits inside of a suitcase. But Luke’s boss (Barbara Eve Harris) comes bearing bad news delivered from the highest levels of the US government. After completing his last job in Antwerp, Luke is looking forward to nothing more than celebrating his the birthday of his adult, eco-crusading daughter, Emma (Monica Barbaro), buying a pleasure craft he can sail the seas with, and winning back the wife who divorced him (Fabiana Udenio) years earlier. Luke Brunner (Schwarzenegger) is a 65-year old CIA agent on the verge of retirement. Slavishly adherent to formula, but not in an altogether negative way, Fubar is a crowd pleaser hits a sweet spot, but comes across as out of time and irrelevant in most other respects. A standard spy action-comedy romp in the same vein as Burn Notice, Scorpion, or True Lies, Fubar (not to be confused with the hoser comedy classic of the same name) boasts considerable star power in the form of Arnold Schwarzenegger – marking his first regular appearance in a series – but not much else here is raising the bar. Mildly amusing, but never particularly special or distinguished, Fubar feels like a series that would be more at home on basic cable or network television than on Netflix.
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