The cancellation of the series comes as a bit of a surprise, as Obliterated held a respectable position in the Netflix Top 10 for English-language series for six weeks after its release on November 30, peaking at No. 1 in its second week. The streamer bases its renewal decisions largely on analyzing viewership versus costs.
From Cobra Kai creators Jon Hurwitz, Hayden Schlossberg and Josh Heald, Obliterated tells the story of an elite Special Forces team who thwarts a deadly threat to Las Vegas. After their party full of booze, drugs and sex, the team discovered that the bomb they defused was a fake. The now inebriated team had to fight through their limitations, overcome their personal problems, find the real bomb and save the world.
Nick Zano, Shelley Hennig, Terrence Terrell, Alyson Gorske, C. Thomas Howell, Eugene Kim, Paola Lázaro and Amalia Yoo star in the series, produced by Sony Pictures Television. Hurwitz, Schlossberg and Heald co-produced with Dina Hillier.
Obliterated was an original concept from Heald, Hurwitz and Schlossberg of Counterbalance Entertainment, who are behind comedies such as the Harold & Kumar franchise, Hot Tub Time Machine, American Reunion and Blockers. They have said that the series was intended to be similar to an R-rated action-comedy feature film, spread over eight episodes, with a beginning, middle and end.
The trio sees Obliterated as a film franchise along the lines of Die Hard or The Hangover and hopes to somehow repeat the concept in the future and pick up the characters again years later.
Meanwhile, Netflix continues to deal with Hurwitz, Schlossberg and Heald, who are working on the upcoming sixth and final season of the hit martial arts comedy Cobra Kai and have announced potential spinoffs.
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