[Full show] Acapulco H.E.A.T. (1993)

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Tubi - Acapulco H.E.A.T. - Season 1

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Plumbing the depths of Tubi, among its Recently Added section I spotted this US/France action-adventure series.

A multinational team of spies (the Hemisphere Emergency Action Team, a.k.a. H.E.A.T.) fight global terrorism by… working undercover as a swimwear company in Puerto Vallarta (I mean, not even Acapulco 😁) which is, like, totally not a thinly-veiled excuse for regularly parading scantily-clad young hotties on screen.

The team’s led by Catherine Oxenberg from Dynasty as a feisty aristo formerly of MI6, and CIA guy Brendan Kelly, who brings all the interesting character traits of a cube of plain tofu.

The team is rounded out by assorted real-life models (including an actual Playboy Playmate) and they take orders over video calls from “C5” boss John Vernon, barely bothering to pretend he’s not just reading off cue cards.

Bonus: mononymous 90s romance model Fabio shows up (!) as manager of the luxury resort hotel that their swimwear company works out of and under which they have an ancient Mayan Batcave for their anti-terrorism operations. (“Mayans? … In Puerto Vallarta???”)

And which is, like, totally not a thinly-veiled promotional exercise for the resort, like the movie Day of the Assassin (the #MondayActionMovie on 11th August).

The team take on missions to defeat terrorist plots in exotic locations throughout the Americas which all somehow look like Mexico with set dressing, full of Mexicans wearing other countries’ “national costumes”.

They do also set much of the action in Mexico itself, leading to great lines like “There’s a bomb in one of those piñatas!” 🤣

And, although not great, we do get action: chases, shootouts, explosions, some hand-to-hand, and even individually-targeted mini-rockets!

I’ve only seen the two-part-premiere so far, and it’s fine if you’re fine with watching some mindless action and PYTs in swimsuits on a lazy afternoon.

Tubi Mexico has only Season 1 ATM, but IMDb seems to indicate Tubi US has also the second season, which was retooled & recast for a lower budget. (Never a good sign.)

The video quality is poor, 360p, and the sound mixing at times terrible.

(Episodes also available on Youtube.)

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Obligatory shirtless hai-yah! moment

Fabio! (No seagull)

Even the assassins are scantily-clad

Mayan Batcave Zoom call. Even Brendan Kelly nods off when Brendan Kelly’s on screen

The only line John Vernon delivered right to camera instead of looking at the cue cards

No 90s action scene is complete without a Playmate on rollerblades chasing down a baddie in a Caddie