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- Netflix
- Nov 3, 2022
- Netflix
- Nov 3, 2022
Summary Timmy Yoon (Randall Park) and the staff at the last Blockbuster store in America seek to keep it open in this comedy series created by Vanessa Ramos.
Created By: Vanessa Ramos
- Netflix
- Nov 3, 2022
- Netflix
- Nov 3, 2022
Summary Timmy Yoon (Randall Park) and the staff at the last Blockbuster store in America seek to keep it open in this comedy series created by Vanessa Ramos.
Created By: Vanessa Ramos
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 23 Critic Reviews
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4% Positive
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1 Review
74% Mixed
17 Reviews
17 Reviews
22% Negative
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 23 Critic Reviews
45
4% Positive
1 Review
1 Review
74% Mixed
17 Reviews
17 Reviews
22% Negative
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
Nearly every character in Blockbuster exemplifies a version of this tension: adulthood and childhood, intersecting at awkward angles. That makes the show, like so many of its fellow workplace comedies, an apt reflection of its time. ... Blockbuster becomes not just a workplace comedy but also a family comedy and a buddy comedy. ... Blockbuster is comedy infused with loss, as a fact and as a looming threat. It is a show fit for a moment shaped by regressions.
There’s a lot of squandered potential here. The lack of focus on the customers is an easy win missed. And while the lack of a “big bad” may be refreshing but means the show lacks any sense of real peril or urgency. By the halfway mark we lose sight of the driving force of the show and slip into soapy silliness.
User Score
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 15 User Ratings
3.5
20% Positive
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20% Mixed
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60% Negative
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9 Ratings
User Score
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 15 User Ratings
3.5
20% Positive
3 Ratings
3 Ratings
20% Mixed
3 Ratings
3 Ratings
60% Negative
9 Ratings
9 Ratings
Great ensemble cast. Funny, touching and well-written (Vanessa Ramos created the series). Totally a feel good binge. Can't wait for season 2!
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SEASON 1
Great sitcom/comedy with some heart if you like shows like Brooklyn 99, Good Place, New Girl, and Happy Endings. These type of shows some of my favs, always on the hunt for more like them. This isn’t quite as good as those but still a very enjoyable watch. I’m confused by these other reviewers.
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SEASON 1
A cute, affable, and fairly forgettable workplace comedy that takes place inside the last remaining of the stores, and uses it mostly for general shenanigans that would work any other place.
Without much idea of how to capitalize on its uniquely compelling premise, Blockbuster winds up a fairly standard-issue workplace sitcom dressed up in blue-and-yellow logos that might strike a chord with viewers of a certain age.
Maybe if Blockbuster leaned further into that meta self-awareness, there would be more about it to recommend. But the thing that makes it special, the connection to Blockbuster, is essentially ignored, resulting in a workplace comedy that isn’t particularly unique or memorable. Instead, there’s commentary about the differences between millennials and Gen Z that isn’t novel or clever.
There’s no sense of anarchy in Blockbuster. Nor tension, not warmth; it’s a shallow, tiresome journey that isn’t courageous enough to dip its toes into the wacky, unhinged potential of working in an unsupervised relic.
Painfully obvious jokes made at the expense of painfully obvious targets abound. If you fed the jokes from any number of early-2000s sitcoms into an AI generator, it would probably spit out something resembling Blockbuster.
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