'FUBAR' review: Arnold Schwarzenegger's first TV series gets by on predictable spy tropes

As if to leave no doubt who we're looking at behind the grizzled beard and worn features, our first glimpse of Arnold Schwarzenegger in the action comedy "FUBAR," his first-ever scripted live-action television series, shows him smoking a big cigar. Perhaps he had it written into his contract, and possibly the production budget. It won't be the last one he smokes.

Created by Nick Santora, whose 2014 series "Scorpion" is a less comical cousin of the current entry, and premiering this week on Netflix, the series takes its title from old acronymic army slang for (to put it politely) "Fouled Up Beyond all Repair/Recognition," and not, as one might think, "Feeling Unmoved by Another Retread." Ripping a page from the execrable Schwarzenegger feature "True Lies," recently rebooted