{"id":506002,"date":"2022-11-03T10:01:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-03T07:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/blockbuster-review-netflixs-unmemorable-new-nostalgia-com\/"},"modified":"2022-11-03T10:01:00","modified_gmt":"2022-11-03T07:01:00","slug":"blockbuster-review-netflixs-unmemorable-new-nostalgia-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/blockbuster-review-netflixs-unmemorable-new-nostalgia-com\/","title":{"rendered":"#\u2018Blockbuster\u2019 Review: Netflix\u2019s Unmemorable New Nostalgia-Com"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a36ec0827c10\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a36ec0827c10\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/blockbuster-review-netflixs-unmemorable-new-nostalgia-com\/#%E2%80%98Blockbuster_Review_Netflixs_Unmemorable_New_Nostalgia-Com\" >\u2018Blockbuster\u2019 Review: Netflix\u2019s Unmemorable New Nostalgia-Com<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-3' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-3'><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-3' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/blockbuster-review-netflixs-unmemorable-new-nostalgia-com\/#Blockbuster\" >Blockbuster<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%98Blockbuster_Review_Netflixs_Unmemorable_New_Nostalgia-Com\"><\/span>\u2018Blockbuster\u2019 Review: Netflix\u2019s Unmemorable New Nostalgia-Com<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    The single sharpest joke of Netflix\u2019s <em>Blockbuster<\/em> is the one contained right there in that phrase: This is a comedy set at the very last Blockbuster on Earth, premiering on the very platform that helped kill all the other Blockbusters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    The irony is so striking and unavoidable that the <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">series<\/a> tackles it head-on in the very first scene, as a customer admits he hasn\u2019t come by lately because he\u2019s been \u201cdoing Netflix, like everybody.\u201d The recommendation algorithm\u2019s been letting him down, though, and that\u2019s where the store staff comes in. It takes a human touch to deduce that what he really needs for his broken heart is <em>Under the Tuscan Sun<\/em>, when he\u2019d never have picked it out for himself.<\/p>\n<div class=\"review-summary-card\">\n<div class=\" lrv-u-flex lrv-u-flex-direction-column@mobile-max lrv-u-padding-a-125 u-background-color-honey-light \">\n<div class=\"lrv-u-flex lrv-u-flex-direction-column u-width-275@tablet u-border-b-1@mobile-max u-border-r-1@tablet u-border-dotted lrv-u-margin-r-150 lrv-u-padding-r-150 lrv-u-margin-r-00@mobile-max lrv-u-padding-r-00@mobile-max lrv-u-padding-b-125@mobile-max lrv-u-margin-b-075@mobile-max\">\n<h3 id=\"title-of-a-story\" class=\"c-title  lrv-u-font-family-primary u-font-size-34 u-font-size-38@desktop-xl lrv-u-line-height-small lrv-u-margin-b-125 \"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Blockbuster\"><\/span>\n<p>                    Blockbuster     <\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>                    <span class=\"lrv-u-text-transform-uppercase lrv-u-font-family-accent lrv-u-font-weight-bold lrv-u-color-brand-primary lrv-u-font-size-16 lrv-u-display-block\">The Bottom Line<\/span><br \/>\n                    <span class=\"c-span  u-font-size-22@tablet u-font-style-italic lrv-u-font-family-secondary\"><\/p>\n<p>    Sweet, simple and nothing particularly special.<br \/>\n    <\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"lrv-u-line-height-large a-children-icon-spacing-none lrv-u-font-family-accent lrv-u-font-size-18\">\n<p>                            <strong>Airdate:<\/strong> Thursday, Nov. 3 (Netflix)<br \/><strong>Cast:<\/strong> Randall Park, Melissa Fumero, Olga Merediz, Tyler Alvarez, Madeleine Arthur, JB Smoove, Kamaia Fairburn<br \/><strong>Creator:<\/strong> Vanessa Ramos<br \/>\n            <span><br \/>\n                                            <\/span>\n        <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    But having made a point about the importance of brick-and-mortar retail in an online world, complete with a rousing speech ripped from <em>Independence Day<\/em>, <em>Blockbuster<\/em> struggles to make any similarly inspiring case for itself. It\u2019s a perfectly pleasant watch, with jokes that go down easy and a solid cast anchored by Randall Park and Melissa Fumero. It\u2019s just missing the special something extra it needs to distinguish itself in the Streaming Wars era.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    Hailing from <em>Superstore<\/em> and <em>Brooklyn Nine-Nine<\/em> vet Vanessa Ramos, with <em>H<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>y Endings<\/em>\u2018 David Caspe and Jackie Clarke among its producers, <em>Blockbuster<\/em> has down pat the well-worn rhythms of a modern workplace sitcom. The will-they-won\u2019t-they dynamic between boss Timmy (Park) and star employee Eliza (Fumero) mixes and matches elements of both <em>Superstore<\/em>\u2018s Jonah and Amy (with Eliza as both the overqualified dropout and the unhappily married mom) and <em>Brooklyn Nine-Nine<\/em>\u2018s Jake and Amy (with Timmy as the man-child who never got over his parents\u2019 split).<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    Meanwhile, the larger ensemble relies on the coworkers-as-family dynamic baked into the genre, coming in less sour than early <em>Office<\/em> and less sticky-sweet than late <em>Office<\/em>. <em>Blockbuster<\/em>\u2018s greatest asset is a cast stuffed with seasoned pros who need little time to grow into their roles. If you already like Park, Fumero or JB Smoove (who plays Timmy\u2019s fast-talking BFF\/landlord Percy), they\u2019re playing very much to type here; if you\u2019re most familiar with Olga Merediz from <em>In the Heights<\/em>, <em>Blockbuster<\/em> offers her a chance to show off a much different side as kooky mama hen Connie.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    More of its jokes land than not, and the ones that don\u2019t slip by quietly on a wave of benign cheeriness. The first season yields few belly laughs, but there are amusing cracks directed at everything from the phony niceness of James Corden to the creepiness of Precious Moments-type figurines, and a few more aimed at the quirks of working on the fringes of the entertainment biz. One episode\u2019s subplot about a hellaciously difficult-to-construct standee for an Emma Stone release called <em>Thimble 2: Thumb Wars<\/em> manages to poke fun at franchise stans, Hollywood\u2019s sequel obsession and the weirdness of movie promo campaigns all in one go.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    But if <em>Blockbuster<\/em> isn\u2019t doing anything especially wrong, its shortcoming is that it\u2019s also not doing anything impressively right. After ten half-hour episodes, it has not yet found a spark like <em>30 Rock<\/em>\u2018s distinctive comic sensibility or <em>Parks and Recreation<\/em>\u2018s knack for world-building or <em>Abbott Elementary<\/em> and <em>Superstore<\/em>\u2018s interest in <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">social<\/a> critique. In fairness, it may yet hone these strengths or find new ones if it scores a season-two renewal; plenty of comedies take a season or more to come into their own. At this point, however, even most of its characters feel like a relatively mild bunch, slotting into tried-and-true archetypes like the ditzy sweetheart (Madeleine Arthur\u2019s Hannah) or the surly teen (Kamaia Fairburn\u2019s Kayla) with few new twists.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    If there is one standout exception, it\u2019s Tyler Alvarez\u2019s Carlos, who envisions the job as a necessary stepping stone to becoming the next Quentin Tarantino or Robert Rodriguez. Not coincidentally, he\u2019s the character who feels most specifically tailored to the show\u2019s premise and setting \u2014 his journey wouldn\u2019t hit quite the same way in anything but a video store, whether he\u2019s running around making shorts of the footage he captures at work or going toe-to-toe with an unpaid intern over horror movie trivia. The other characters, by contrast, might have been equally fulfilled or unfulfilled working at Percy\u2019s party-supply store a few doors down.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    The issue is not that <em>Blockbuster<\/em> should have featured only film nerds; plenty of people take jobs simply because they\u2019re available rather than because they satisfy some lifelong passion. It\u2019s that, outside of Carlos, the series does not so far seem to have any particular reason for being set in the last Blockbuster on Earth. Its plots hinge mostly on vague notions about the challenges of small businesses (because that\u2019s what Timmy\u2019s Blockbuster becomes without a corporate overlord) and the importance of community (mostly defined here as in-person transactions and the occasional marketing event).<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    Without much idea of how to capitalize on its uniquely compelling premise, <em>Blockbuster<\/em> 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. It\u2019s certainly agreeable enough for a Blockbuster night, as we ancient millennials used to call evenings spent watching stuff on the couch, but come morning it may well disappear into Netflix\u2019s endless rows of content. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    \u201cNever underestimate nostalgia. Nothing thrills people more than knowing their memory still works,\u201d a character wryly observes at one point \u2014 while she\u2019s not wrong about the pull of the past, old formulas do have their limits. Just ask the show\u2019s namesake.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/plain\" class=\"optanon-category-C0004\">\n!function(f, b, e, v, n, t, s) {\nif (f.fbq) return;\nn = f.fbq = function() {n.callMethod ? n.callMethod.apply(n, arguments) : n.queue.push(arguments);};\nif (!f._fbq) f._fbq = n;\nn.push = n;\nn.loaded = !0;\nn.version = '2.0';\nn.queue = [];\nt = b.createElement(e);\nt.async = !0;\nt.src = v;\ns = b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\ns.parentNode.insertBefore(t, s);\n}(window, document, 'script', 'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\nfbq('init', '352999048212581');\nfbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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