I had heard of NBC’s Superstore for quite an number of years now, but until recently I kind of ignored it. I had noticed it was on Hulu and my wife and I needed something to watch. And I’ve always been a fan of America Ferrera. It took us about 2 months or so to binge watch the whole thing.

Superstore is all about a certain Cloud 9 location. It becomes very clear that Cloud 9 is just a direct parody of Walmart. In their universe, Walmart doesn’t even exist.

But a lot of the things about Walmart show up in Cloud 9 such as awful.. awful… awful customers, lol.

But I would say there are two main characters to this fairly large cast. The first is the new hire Jonah Simms who is a good-hearted guy that dropped out of business school… but doesn’t have a lot of practical common sense.

The other is Amy (née Sosa) Dubanowski who often wears a name tag that doesn’t actually match her real name. She’s worked at Cloud 9 since she was a teenager, and now she is the floor supervisor.

It becomes very clear that Jonah and Amy have a lot of chemistry, despite the fact that Amy has nominally claimed that she’s disliked Jonah since day one. I always thought it was weird that Amy was technically married, as it doesn’t seem to be the case from episode 1… but sure enough she is.

Superstore is a very well-rounded sitcom as the cast is just as talented as the wacky characters they play. The main two staples are the dimwitted and goofy store manager Glenn Sturgis and his strange and very bold assistant manager Dina Fox.

And the rest of the staff have their own quirks and qualities. Such as Cheyenne Lee, the half asian cashier that is pregnant since the pilot and somehow is dating some completely stupid loser. But my favorite was probably Garrett McNeill, the surly and handicapped store announcer that also works in customer service.

Superstore wasn’t the greatest sitcom of all time and it’s very likely I may not re-watch it in the future like I have shows such as Friends and The Big Bang Theory. But my wife and I thoroughly enjoyed the series. And working retail myself, I do enjoy the parodying of awful customers. I never worked for Walmart but some of the things they made fun of are rather universal for anybody that’s worked with the general public. That being said, I think I counted at least 50 times where everybody should have been fired even from an awful place like Cloud 9.