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Positive:
1
Mixed:
17
Negative:
5
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Critic Reviews
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.
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Nov 9, 2022
Season 1 Review:
The show isn’t bad, but it’s definitely familiar, with a cast of quirky characters who constitute a likable, if occasionally kooky workplace family. ... But these first 10 half-hour episodes are less interesting than “The Last Blockbuster,” Taylor Morden and Zeke Kamm’s documentary about how the Bend outlet came to be the last Blockbuster in America.
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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.
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Nov 3, 2022
Season 1 Review:
“Blockbuster’s” bouncy energy, one of the show’s defining elements is its fascination with the work of work — how people with incompatible personalities figure out ways to problem solve and exist side-by-side and maybe, just maybe, not be miserable while doing it. There is real comedy and drama in that, and yet too often “Blockbuster” struggles to land on either.
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ColliderNov 3, 2022
Season 1 Review:
Blockbuster is a series that is safe to a fault and never creates enough laughs over its 10 episodes to carve out a comedic identity of its own. It may tickle the fancy of those looking for a more straightforward sitcom, but it is hard to see it having much to offer those looking for something more clever.
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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.
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The Daily BeastNov 4, 2022
Season 1 Review:
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.
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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.
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Nov 3, 2022
Season 1 Review:
The final product’s attempts to find a halfway point between its obvious broadcast rhythms and new streaming home make clear the problems of trying to make the show fit on a platform that clearly doesn’t suit it — a clash that extends beyond how the show works (or doesn’t) on a granular comedic level, too.
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Nov 3, 2022
Season 1 Review:
“Blockbuster,” while far too ordinary to be actively offensive, is nonetheless made somehow more disappointing by its singular lack of ambition, content instead to be a clone of other, superior shows. The laughs are fleeting, the stories are forgettable, and its entire existence feels like one last indignity visited upon the defunct video store chain.
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