‘Everything Sucks!’: How Blockbuster and Ace of Base Heighten the Emotional Ending — Spoilers

I’m not sure if you noticed, but “Everything Sucks!” takes place in the ’90s.

I know, I know.

It’s quite a revelation, given how subtly the new Netflix comedy incorporates its period appropriate props and dialogue.

But among the many, many casual and clunky references to an emerging narrative source of millennial nostalgia, two nods to the decade that gave us the Macarena and Crystal Pepsi are actually, you know, important.[Editor’s Note: The following article contains spoilers for “Everything Sucks!” Season 1, including the ending.]And they both occur around the same time: Near the end of the first season, the Av and Drama clubs of Boring High School take an unexpected field trip to Dominguez Rocks, a canyon nestled northwest of Santa Clarita, CA.

(Sadly, there’s no synergistic Drew Barrymore cameo.) They’re on a mission to complete their school movie, but the key references have nothing to do with blue aliens and low-budget special effects.What first stands out is Blockbuster.

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