Espionage and family dinner-table dysfunction collide head-on in "Fubar," a 2023 American action series that puts a father and daughter on the same covert payroll without either one knowing it.
What is Fubar about?
Luke Brunner is closing in on retirement from a career his own family believes was spent behind a desk, when a routine extraction goes sideways and forces a truth into the open: his daughter Emma has been working undercover for the same agency for years. What was meant to be one last quiet mission turns into a shared operation neither of them signed up for, with the two forced to trust each other in the field while still working out how to talk to each other at home. The show plays the mismatch for both action and comedy, following the pair and their handlers through missions that keep circling back to the one relationship neither of them can extract from.
About the cast
Arnold Schwarzenegger and Monica Barbaro anchor the series as father and daughter, with Milan Carter, Gabriel Luna, Fortune Feimster, Travis Van Winkle, Fabiana Udenio, and Barbara Eve Harris filling out the wider team around them. Creator Nick Santora built the show around that central pairing, using the agency's support cast to keep the tone shifting between mission-of-the-week stakes and workplace-comedy banter.
Context & significance
At roughly an hour per episode, the series belongs to the modern run of spy shows that treat the job itself as background noise for a more personal story, in this case a parent and adult child renegotiating who they are to each other once the cover stories fall away. The American setting and CIA framing give it a bigger, more procedural shape than a strictly domestic drama, while keeping the family unit as the actual throughline.
Watching Fubar on Ktime
"Fubar" streams on K-Time with both Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles, so viewers can choose whichever fits how they like to watch. The Farsi interface makes browsing straightforward for the Iranian diaspora audience, and reading this page costs nothing; only watching the episodes requires signing in with a free K-Time account.