Pacific Heat Season 1 Netflix Series Review

Pacific Heat (2016-)
Season 1 - 13 episodes (2016)

Watch Pacific Heat on Netflix
Only in United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Ireland
Created by: Santo Cilauro, Tom Gleisner, Rob Sitch
Starring: Tom Gleisner, Tahir Bilgic, Ed Kavalee
Rated: TV-MA/R

Plot
A covert squad of inept agents fights crime in Australia. This animated adult series is a cop show satire, Hawaii 5-0 meets The A-Team, looking similar to Archer. 

Verdict
This is funny in a mild sense. It's a mindless series with just a shadow of a story. Each episode's plot is similar, the team has to stop a terrorist or villain. It's a parody of action movies, but it falls short of actually being funny.
While so many lines sound quotable, when an episode ends I can't actually remember any of them. The show gives you too much too fast without waiting for anything to land. It feels like watching an action-comedy movie on fast-forward.
It has a great premise that falls short. It should be funnier.
It depends.

Review
It's just not funny enough, in part because the dialog is so fast. Often the characters are talking over each other. I guess that's part of voice over actors recording separately and not nailing the back and forth timing.

Zac, VJ, Todd, Maddie, and the chief.

If you watch episodes twice or more it will probably get funnier when you know what's coming next, but the first time through you don't have time to process one joke before the next is hurled your way.
It has great ideas that are lost in translation. The timing is terrible. My favorite episode is 11. It mocks so many common action movie tropes, but it doesn't always make them overt enough. Too many of the jokes are underdeveloped or repeated.

Many reviews call this an un-funny Archer. I'm guessing if I had watched Archer I would like this even less. Pacific Heat certainly should be funnier.

Please stop, no! I can't watch this show any more.

This is an elite team of inept undercover agents out of Australia tasked with defending the world every episode. They combat eco-terrorists, radicals, and drug dealers.
While the team is fast talking, employing a lot of word play jokes, this team of four is completely forgettable. They don't really need names. Maddie is the only knowledgeable person on the team that actually cares about her job. She explains everything because none of the other characters understand their job or how to execute it. Todd is the confidant male lead, whose mission is to come up with cool one liners and try to get out of doing any work when he isn't ogling women. Zac is dumb. He's a human rock. V.J. is a female agent. She has to real purpose or attributes. I can't come up with a single unique thing she does.

Don't worry, these inept agents can't hit the target.

Their personalities sets up a lot of recurring jokes like Todd using security cameras to check out woman, Zac being dumb, and Maddie being smart. They are painfully dumb, often forgetting they are undercover, but it isn't as funny as it should be. The dialog is so quick that you miss how over the top it is.That's when it isn't a joke we've already heard multiple times in the same episode.

A typical exchange that occurs almost every episode is Maddie asking, "Do you know what that means?" Todd has no clue but plays if off replying, "You go first." This often occurs multiple times in a row each episode. Some jokes get funnier the more you hear them. This one isn't that kind of joke.
Sometimes we get a variant where Todd tells her he understands, but she, "may as well explain it to the others."

Oh no, it's a bomb! Everyone stand around and look at it.

It pulls out every action movie trope, but the results are often underwhelming. It's completely self aware, but floats ideas instead of landing them.

Episode one mentions a pair of drug dealers that smuggled weed in garden furniture and discovered they could make more money just selling garden furniture.

In episode two Maddie misses sniping the target multiple times because she forgot her contacts. With all four agents shooting the getaway car, they can't hit it.

Episode eleven is my favorite. Todd and the villain are on an airplane firing point blank at each other and missing every single shot. Todd accidentally kills one of the henchman behind the main villain. We've seen this trope before where the leads can't kill each other until it's the end of the story arc.
Finally a window is shot out and the villain is inexplicably sucked out of the tiny window. It's absurd, but the show is rarely able to capitalize on it's own humor. My favorite episode isn't even one I would call funny.