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Syraat Al Mustaqeem

‘A murderer returning to the scene’: Fans are upset by Netflix’s Blockbuster sitcom

A closed Blockbuster store in Filton, South Gloucestershire

(Picture: Tim Ireland/PA Archive)

Netflix’s latest sitcom Blockbuster offers a window into the time-capsule that is a dying video rental store. But many of its intended audience believe it should have been left buried in 2014.

The eight-part series follows Timmy Yoon (Randall Park), who is described as an “analogue dreamer living in a 5G world” and who is the owner of the last Blockbuster Video store in America.

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