- Network: Netflix
- Series Premiere Date: Nov 3, 2022
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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.
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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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It’s as awkward a marriage of studio and subject matter as audiences likely imagined going in, and even its charming veteran comedians — Park, Fumero, and J.B. Smoove — can’t summon enough magic to make “Blockbuster” worth sitting through.
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“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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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.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 3 out of 14
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Mixed: 3 out of 14
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Negative: 8 out of 14
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Nov 5, 2022This review contains spoilers, click full review link to view.
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Nov 3, 2022
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Nov 14, 2022Most of the jokes were used during the trailer. The acting is surprisingly bad, even given the genre and expectations I had going in.