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Blockbuster

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Mixed or average reviews based on 23 Critic Reviews

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Mixed or average reviews based on 14 Ratings

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Blockbuster

Series Details & Credits

Netflix | Release Date: November 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.

Creator: Vanessa Ramos

Genre(s): Comedy

Recent Episodes

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S1:E10. Sh*t Storm
Air Date: November 3, 2022
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S1:E9. Thimble
Air Date: November 3, 2022
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S1:E8. Special Guy Day
Air Date: November 3, 2022

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Metascore

45

Positive:

1

Mixed:

17

Negative:

5

Critic Reviews

80

The Atlantic

Megan Garber

Nov 9, 2022

Season 1 Review: 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. Read full review

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The A.V. Club

Saloni Gajjar

Nov 3, 2022

Season 1 Review: Actually, every performer in Blockbuster elevates the weak writing, transforming the show from passable to pleasant enough. ... However, Blockbuster truly struggles with the laughs, in that there are barely any. Read full review

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Consequence

Liz Shannon Miller

Nov 3, 2022

Season 1 Review: Blockbuster features some inspired supporting performances, with Madeleine Arthur, Olga Merediz, and Tyler Alvarez standing out as cast MVPs. But the extremely forced will-they-won’t-they dynamic between Park and Fumero never comes together, due to a fundamental lack of chemistry between the two. In addition, character dynamics, exposition, and thematic messages are all delivered with blunt-force dialogue. Read full review

50

The Hollywood Reporter

Angie Han

Nov 3, 2022

Season 1 Review: 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. Read full review

50

Under The Radar

Michael James Hall

Nov 7, 2022

Season 1 Review: 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. Read full review

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Vanity Fair

Tara Ariano

Nov 4, 2022

Season 1 Review: It could have just leaned all the way in and set this show in 1993, bringing the viewer back to a time when America’s future felt prosperous and safe. Now, Blockbuster is just another organization collapsing around us. Watching an ostensible comedy set inside it just isn’t funny. Read full review

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Slant Magazine

Ross McIndoe

Nov 4, 2022

Season 1 Review: 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. Read full review

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User Reviews

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Jay-I-Q

Nov 27, 2022

This is a fun show. I really liked every character and their individual moments and quirks, but didn’t feel like there was a particular standout. I was invested in Timmy and Eliza's relationship, which serves as the main narrative through line for the season, and the rest of the charactersThis is a fun show. I really liked every character and their individual moments and quirks, but didn’t feel like there was a particular standout. I was invested in Timmy and Eliza's relationship, which serves as the main narrative through line for the season, and the rest of the characters each had their share of resonant moments. Individual episode plots were good, but I feel there could have been more or stronger season long narrative threads. Dialogue was strong for the most part. I found most of the jokes funny and the emotional scenes hit, but there was a lack of stand out lines and scenes that I feel shows like this need. Cinematography was fine, some poor CGI in one episode, but I feel that this should have been one of the series strong suits considering Carlos' desire to become a director. Overall, while there wasn't anything that particularly stands out, I enjoyed my time watching the show and look forward to next season.… Expand

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Aquasoul

Nov 13, 2022

Great comedy with some heart if you like shows like Brooklyn 99, Good Place, New Girl, Single Parents, 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 theseGreat comedy with some heart if you like shows like Brooklyn 99, Good Place, New Girl, Single Parents, 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 negative reviews, maybe not really the type of show to appeal to the Netflix crowd? Let’s hope there is a season 2! Don’t let me down Netflix.… Expand

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PugThugD

Nov 28, 2022

PROS: It's nice to have a show to remind you of all the good days of blockbuster the atmosphere isn't spot on but if your looking for something to just put on it's good to zone out on. It's not the worst show to watch.

CONS: Hopefully the portrayal of being a blockbuster employee improvesPROS: It's nice to have a show to remind you of all the good days of blockbuster the atmosphere isn't spot on but if your looking for something to just put on it's good to zone out on. It's not the worst show to watch.

CONS: Hopefully the portrayal of being a blockbuster employee improves In the next season, also the pacing could use work. I will give it a mediocre rating for, "trying but is a lackluster."… Expand

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spmuzik

Nov 23, 2022

About 10% of the jokes are funny. There are about 10 of them a minute. That's a LOT of bad jokes to hear in 26 minutes. This is what happens when you get 20 writers in a room with a theme but no comedic vision. Absolutely terrible.

1 of 1 users found this helpful10

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Mindurbidniss

Nov 12, 2022

Another souless, generic Netflix comedy that's more concerned with pushing a political agenda than the actual comedy. Made it halfway through the pilot episode before I could take no more.
The box checking cast of inadvertently stereotypical characters also had zero chemistry with oneAnother souless, generic Netflix comedy that's more concerned with pushing a political agenda than the actual comedy. Made it halfway through the pilot episode before I could take no more.
The box checking cast of inadvertently stereotypical characters also had zero chemistry with one another. These shows have to stop. If you have nothing to say, why even speak?… Expand

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thomasdg

Jan 26, 2023

About 10% of the jokes are funny. There are about 10 of them a minute. That's a LOT of bad jokes to hear in 26 minutes. This is what happens when you get 20 writers in a room with a theme but no comedic vision. Absolutely terrible.

0 of 1 users found this helpful01

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Nardvark

Nov 6, 2022

This just plain awful.. how this was released is beyond me .. some of the worst writing

1 of 4 users found this helpful13

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Seasons & Episodes

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Series Overview
Season 1

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- Season 1 Overview
  Air Date: November 3, 2022
- tbd
  S1:E10. Sh*t Storm
  Air Date: November 3, 2022
- tbd
  S1:E9. Thimble
  Air Date: November 3, 2022
- tbd
  S1:E8. Special Guy Day
  Air Date: November 3, 2022
- tbd
  S1:E7. Intimate Angels
  Air Date: November 3, 2022
- tbd
  S1:E6. Parental Control
  Air Date: November 3, 2022
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  S1:E5. King of Queens
  Air Date: November 3, 2022
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  S1:E4. The Itsy Bizzies
  Air Date: November 3, 2022
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  S1:E3. Evan and Trevin
  Air Date: November 3, 2022
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  S1:E2. Blockbuster Daddy
  Air Date: November 3, 2022
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  S1:E1. Pilot
  Air Date: November 3, 2022