- Network: Netflix
- Series Premiere Date: Nov 3, 2022
User Score
Generally unfavorable reviews- based on 14 Ratings
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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BlockbusterYour Score0 out of 10User ScoreGenerally unfavorable reviews- based on 14 Ratings
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Nov 5, 2022This review contains spoilers, click expand to view.
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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.
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Nov 3, 2022If 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.
Awards & Rankings
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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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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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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.