YMMV / Blockbuster

• Audience-Alienating Premise: The show didn't get as much traction as Netflix hoped, with the most common complaint being that, had it not been set in The New '20s and instead The '90s or The 2000s, then it could've been interesting, as those periods was when Blockbuster Video was at the peak of its popularity. Due to lack of audience growth and a lack of interest by subscribers, it only lasted one season and got axed a month after it came out.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: The biggest complaint among critics is that the premise of placing a Work Com in a Blockbuster comes with much potential given the brand recognition and nostalgia associated with the store, but the series barely does anything with it. The series takes place in The New '20s in the sole remaining Blockbuster store, but this setting is practically a non-factor with informing the tone or humor of the series, which plays as a very typically warm and quirky sitcom with very little pathos in Blockbuster's decline. A common consensus is that Blockbuster would've found much more power through darker, more satirical comedy acknowledging the very real End of an Era the premise dances around (especially obvious given the fact the show is produced by Netflix, a company that indirectly led to its demise), or that — if it really wanted to be a straightforward sitcom banking on cozy nostalgia — it should've simply been a Period Piece taking place during the company's heyday.

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