Netflix releases trailer for Blockbuster comedy with Brooklyn Nine-Nine and Marvel stars

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11 Oct 2022, 08:33

Netflix is ramping up the nostalgia factor with their upcoming workplace comedy series - Blockbuster. 

Marvel star Randall Park and Brooklyn Nine-Nine’s Melissa Fumero lead the fictional account of everyday life in the last video rental chain store in the US. 

Randall plays proud Blockbuster manager Timmy Yoon in the 10-part series, during which he learns the store is likely to be put out of business like their state-wide counterparts. 

To ramp up the drama, longtime crush and former employee Eliza, played by Melissa, returns to the store after leaving her husband. 

Watch the trailer below: 

Ant-Man and the Wasp star Randall also stars alongside Tyler Alvarez, Madeleine Arthur, Olga Merediz and Curb Your Enthusiasm star JB Smoove. 

Blockbuster also reunites Melissa with Brooklyn Nine-Nine writer Vanessa Ramos, who also worked on Superstore and Crashing. 

In Netflix’s first look trailer, Randall’s Timmy is told by Blockbuster’s big bosses that his store is officially “the last one on earth” to which he replies: “I don’t love the pattern that’s starting to emerge.”

Hijinks begin to ensure after Timmy insists to his ragtime rental movie team that “everything is under control”, before a DVD box full of cockroaches pings open. 

It seems Timmy and the team will struggle to keep the store going after being handed an eviction notice, but will their hard work pay off to help the last Blockbuster stay open?

Speaking of new content from Netflix, their spine-chilling drama, Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story, has become one of the streaming site's most-watched series of all time.

Premiering on September 21, it raked in an audience of 196.2 million. According to Variety, the sickening series has currently been viewed for 496.1 million hours with at least 56 million households watching all 10 episodes.

Blockbuster will premiere on Netflix on 3 November 2022.