Netflix Cancels ‘Blockbuster,’ Much Like How Netflix Canceled Blockbuster
For the second time this century, Netflix and Blockbuster Video stores have failed to coexist.
For the second time this century, Netflix and Blockbuster Video stores have failed to coexist.
No one in 2022 is talking about or using social media like this.
The Netflix original series about the last Blockbuster video store isn’t incisive enough to matter, nostalgic enough to be fun, or funny enough for its stars.
“I actually watched a lot of movies based on the recommendations that Timmy would give to other characters,” Park said of playing a fictional Blockbuster manager in the Netflix sitcom.
“Superstore” and “Brooklyn Nine-Nine” writer Vanessa Ramos created the series.
Availability is extremely limited, but the store is also offering a call-in movie-recommendation service and has an online shop full of Blockbuster swag.
The Blockbuster in Bend, Oregon, is enacting safety and social-distancing measures to keep the lights on through the pandemic.
The closing of a location in Australia this week will make Bend, Oregon the home of the final Blockbuster on earth.
Streaming killed the video store.
The new Netflix original lays the ’90s references on pretty thick, but two period details prove hugely relevant in the end.
It turns out Netflix is no match for old school video rentals in Alaska.
Things have changed in the new century, bringing a new model blockbuster.