Ep. 12 - Blockbuster
Come rent your favorite VHS tape and listen along as Andrew and Presley tackled this ironically canceled show about a canceled business.
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Blockbuster is a Netflix sitcom from last year focused on the fictitious last Blockbuster trying to stay in business. The show follows the owner, Timmy (Randall Park), as the manager of this final Blockbuster. Together with his childhood friend and crush Eliza (Melissa Fumero) and the rest of the passionate employees of the store, trying to find clever ways to encourage new memberships and keep the store going for as long as possible. A frenemy to Timmy is the owner of the strip mall where the Blockbuster is located, Percy (J.B. Smoove), who is constantly trying to both help and hurt the business by wanting his daughter employed there while also demanding the rent from a business of a friend that he knows is struggling to keep the lights on. After some hi-jinx to try and keep the store open, the final episode concludes with a solar flare that knocks out the internet, and the local populous, desperate for entertainment, begins once again to flock to the Blockbuster and the store for the time being is saved.