Netflix Obliterated recap and ending explained (spoilers)

Imagine having to track down a volatile nuclear bomb in the city of Las Vegas while under the influence of every drug under the sun. Well, the elite team at the center of Netflix’s newest action-comedy series Obliterated doesn’t have to imagine, because that is the exact situation they find themselves in and across eight episodes, we follow them through their hangovers as they try to save the city from being decimated by the bomb.

Spoilers ahead for Obliterated

The first few episodes of Obliterated are some of your standard action-genre fare with the good guys, led by Shelley Hennig’s character Ava Winters and Nick Zano’s Chad McKnight, chase after the bad guys all over the city. It’s not until the final couple of episodes that we start to see some genuine twists and turns.

Who is Lana?

One of the biggest reveals comes when we find out that Lana (Alyson Gorske), the blonde they picked up from a holding cell after she was found in Ivan Koslov’s bedroom, is actually Anastasia Koslov, Ivan’s sister. She and her goons believe that Las Vegas is a den of sin that needs to be wiped off the map. Then things take an even uglier turn when Ava kills Ivan, devastating Anastasia because her brother was the only family she had left.

What happens in the end?

Anastasia comes close to outsmarting Ava and her team after she lures them to a rooftop and they discover the luggage she’s been carrying around does not contain the bomb after all. She actually swapped it earlier to mislead the Americans.

Luckily, the team is smart enough to backtrack with the help of their tech girl Maya and they track the real bomb to the casino floor. There, the team’s bomb tech Hagerty (C. Thomas Howell), who has been having his own crazy adventure through the city after being knocked out for hours and then getting married shotgun-wedding style to a singer, arrives on a camel just in time to disarm the bomb and save the day.

The season ends with the team getting to celebrate properly this time and Ava and McKnight having sex again, this time to completion. It also looks like Trunk (Terrence Terrell) is going to be sticking around for a few more missions instead of bailing for Lady Gaga.