As for whether the trio of co-creators behind "Obliterated" — Josh Heald, Hayden Schlossberg, and Jon Hurwitz — expected to receive any blowback for including the brutal genital torture in their series, Schlossberg joked that they weren't even responsible for placing Trunk into the situation in the first place. "It wasn't us, it was this terrorist organization, so we blame them," he said. On a more serious note, however, Schlossberg did some explaining on how the brutal torture sequence came together and how the writing team came up with it. "You end up in a room with a bunch of writers talking about what the most painful possible thing would be that you haven't seen before, and you end up with this scene," he went on.
While the explicit torture scene in "Obliterated" is likely to scar the memories of many of the series' viewers, it does go to show the degree to which such shocking scenes will make a lasting impression. As is the case with other shocking series, like "Game of Thrones" or "The Boys," this could be just the thing that keeps viewers watching to see what's next.
In fact, that seems to be exactly what the series' creators had in mind. "We come from that era of cinema where there are moments that create big audience reactions, whether that's laughter or having to look away from the screen," Schlossberg concluded.
