After decades of dominating action cinema in movies like Conan the Barbarian, Terminator And Predator, Arnold Schwarzenegger Makes His Scripted TV Debut This Week in Netflix Original Series FUBAR.
An action comedy in eight episodes The Sopranos, Law & Order And prison Break writer Nick Santora, FUBAR follows a high-octane, conceptual premise similar to one of Schwarzenegger’s most famous films, real lies. In this film, Schwarzenegger played a spy who hid his work from his wife and daughter, until they got dangerously entangled in his latest mission.
In FUBAR, Schwarzenegger plays a spy again, but this time he’s about to retire, until he learns that his beloved daughter, played by Top Gun: MaverickIt is Monica Barbaro, is Also a secret agent who dangerously hid her double life of him. Father and daughter end up being forced to work together to thwart an enemy plot while resolving their family issues, and it’s safe to say that along the way, things get tough…or rather, FUBAR.
What does FUBAR mean?
FUBAR is an acronym of military origin, which stands for a situation so damaged or out of control that it is “Fucked Beyond Recognition”, or alternatively, “Fucked Beyond Repair”.
According Techopedia, FUBAR was popularized by American soldiers during World War II. At that time, however, he had the somewhat safer sense for the job of “fouled beyond repair”. The increasingly widespread use of FUBAR may have been influenced at the time by the German term “furchtbar”, which translates to “terrible”, and is used to describe a general feeling of abject despair or incapacity.
At Netflix FUBAR, the term is only uttered once – at the final moment of Season 1, when (Spoiler!) all of the spies have their secret identities compromised and must flee. Luke, then, declares the whole situation to be FUBAR.
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