Blockbuster

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Season 1
  • Network: Netflix
  • Series Premiere Date: Nov 3, 2022
User Score
3.7

Generally unfavorable reviews- based on 14 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 14
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 14
  3. Negative: 8 out of 14

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  1. A7sus4
    Nov 5, 2022
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. They lost me as soon as they mentioned pronouns. I think that was the second scene. No thanks.… Expand
  2. TheLee
    Nov 14, 2022
    1
    Most of the jokes were used during the trailer. The acting is surprisingly bad, even given the genre and expectations I had going in.
  3. 5PRX
    Nov 6, 2022
    8
    It's a light-hearted feel good comedy. If something like Big Bang can be popular and go on for so many seasons then I certainly don't understand why Blockbuster can't. Season 2 is setting solid foundations for a stronger, better season 2.
  4. Chapa9dj
    Nov 3, 2022
    3
    If this is comedy, this is the most depressing and boring show i have ever seen.
    Terrible actors too, i don't expect this to go past the first season. It's just sad.
  5. Hollywood62
    Nov 3, 2022
    10
    Great ensemble cast. Funny, touching and well-written (Vanessa Ramos created the series). Totally a feel good binge. Can't wait for season 2!
  6. MetacriticOnur
    Nov 3, 2022
    6
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  7. Aquasoul
    Nov 13, 2022
    8
    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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#71 Most Discussed TV Season of 2022

Critic Reviews

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Metascore
45

Mixed or average reviews - based on 23 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 23
  2. Mixed: 17 out of 23
  3. Negative: 5 out of 23
  1. The Atlantic
    Reviewed by: Megan Garber
    Nov 9, 2022
    80
    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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  2. The Oregonian
    Reviewed by: Kristi Turnquist
    Nov 9, 2022
    50
    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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  3. Under The Radar
    Reviewed by: Michael James Hall
    Nov 7, 2022
    50
    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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