Netflix is closing up its Blockbuster.
The streaming service made the choice Friday to cancel the comedy sequence after a single season.
The sequence did not make an influence on the streamer’s viewership metrics, which generally spells doom for any sequence.
The sequence launched to tepid critiques in November.
Blockbuster starred Randall Park (Timmy), Melissa Fumero (Eliza), Tyler Alvarez (Carlos), Madeleine Arthur (Hannah), Olga Merediz (Connie), JB Smoove (Percy), and Kamaia Fairburn (Kayla).
“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,” the logline teases.
“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 continues.
“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.”
The sequence hailed from creator, author, government producer, and showrunner Vanessa Ramos, who beforehand labored on Superstore and Brooklyn Nine-Nine.
The sequence did handle to have some humor, nevertheless it wasn’t as constant as you’d anticipate.
Blockbuster had wonderful expertise on and off display screen, however the premise by no means actually stood the check of time.
Netflix comedies hardly ever stay so long as dramas. The dramas are inclined to have extra buzz.
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