SummaryTimmy 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.
Created By:Vanessa Ramos
Blockbuster
Season 1 Premiere:
Nov 3, 2022
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45
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4.0
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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.
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.
User score
Mixed or Average
4.0
22% Positive
7 Ratings
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31% Mixed
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15 Ratings
15 Ratings
Nov 27, 2022
8
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 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.
Nov 13, 2022
8
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 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.
Nov 3, 2022
50
A cute, affable, and fairly forgettable workplace comedy that takes place inside the last remaining of the stores, and uses it mostly for general shenanigans that would work any other place.
Nov 3, 2022
50
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.
Nov 4, 2022
40
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.
Nov 3, 2022
34
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.
Nov 4, 2022
12
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.
Nov 28, 2022
6
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 improves In the next season, also the pacing could use work. I will give it a mediocre rating for, "trying but is a lackluster."
Nov 5, 2022
6
I want to rate this a grade or two higher just because of the talent involved, including producer/creator Vanessa Ramos (Brooklyn 9-9, Superstore) and David Caspe (Happy Endings), along with sitcoms pros Randall Park, Melissa Fumero and J.B. Smoove. Being a Universal production and rated TV-14, it feels like a half hour workplace comedy you'd find on a Thursday night at 9:30 on NBC. That's not a bad thing. Some of the lines are funny and quirky. It's just a case of familiarity. Park plays the nicest guy in the room. Fumero is playing a slight variation of Amy from Brooklyn. And Smoove is Smoove, whether it's Curb or Ceasars commercials, he's always...well, Smoove. Quite honestly how this ended up on Netflix and not Peacock is baffling.
Sep 25, 2025
4
It's completely forgettable and nothing special. It's not a bad show, it's just not something good enough that you'll remember in a weeks time. I tried to give it my full attention but it's type of show that gives you the urge to do something more interesting like browsing the web on your phone.
Nov 23, 2022
2
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.
Jan 26, 2023
0
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.
