Netflix's newest sitcom offering is Blockbuster, and yes, you read that correctly.
Netflix — the streaming company that started as a movie rental service — has made a show about Blockbuster, the nearly defunct movie rental company.
No, the sitcom isn't set in the past during Blockbuster's heyday. It's set in present day and takes place at the last Blockbuster store in the country.
People have definitely noticed the irony of the situation:
Netflix making a series about Blockbuster is mad. It'd be like Macbeth making a wacky sitcom about King Duncan.
They put a docuseries about Blockbuster on Netflix?? That’s like if a deer family projected the movie Bambi on a hunter’s ass
I’m screaming at how Netflix really created a show around the demise of Blockbuster when Netflix are the exact cause of it 😂 #Blockbuster
The fact that Netflix made a comedy series about working at the last Blockbuster feels like pissing-on-the-corpse-of-those-you-vanquished territory
Netflix making a TV show about blockbuster is straight up bullying. It’s like if a meteor directed Jurassic Park.
Before you get too offended on Blockbuster's behalf, this probably isn't a case of Netflix purposefully rubbing salt in the wound. No beating of dead horses here.
Turns out, the show was developed by Vanessa Ramos with Universal Television at NBC. When NBC passed on the show, Universal tried to find a new distributor, and that's when Netflix stepped in.
