Trailer for the Blockbuster Video-Set Netflix Comedy Series BLOCKBUSTER
Netflix has released the first trailer for its upcoming Netflix original sitcom series Blockbuster, which is set in a fictionalized version of the last Blockbuster Video store in the world.
In the series, “Timmy Yoon (Randall Park) is an analog dreamer in a 5G world. He’s spent his entire adult life dedicated to his first love, movies — a passion that’s kept him at his first and only job, managing his hometown Blockbuster Video. Then Timmy is alarmed to learn that his store is officially the last Blockbuster in America. He now has no choice but to take action to stay open and keep his friends employed. Timmy and his staff quickly come to realize that being home to the last Blockbuster might actually be exactly what their community needs to rekindle the human connections they lost to the digital age. It also unexpectedly reunites him with his long-time crush Eliza (Melissa Fumero), who’s recently come back to work for him. Will this battle to preserve the past be the push Timmy needs to step into the present? His employees can only hope so.”
It looks like it will be a good series worth checking out, but I would much rather have seen a series set in the ‘90s during Blockbuster’s golden age. That would have been so much more fun!
The series will be composed of 10 episodes, each lasting around 30 minutes. It also stars Melissa Fumero as Eliza Walker, Tyler Alvarez as Carlos Herrera, Madeleine Arthur as Hannah Hadman, Olga Merediz as Connie Serrano, JB Smoove as Percy Scott, and Kamaia Fairburn as Kayla Scott.
Blockbuster is set to premiere on Netflix on November 3rd.