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2015
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2015
TV-MA
Netflix

Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp

Summary The prequel to the 2001 film Wet Hot American Summer set during the first days of camp features a majority of the original cast including Michael Ian Black, Bradley Cooper, Janeane Garofalo, David Hyde Pierce, Christopher Meloni, Amy Poehler, Paul Rudd, and Molly Shannon.

Comedy

Created By: Michael Showalter, David Wain

2015
TV-MA
Netflix

2015
TV-MA
Netflix

Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp

Season 1 Premiere: Jul 31, 2015

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 23 Critic Reviews

74

User Score Generally Favorable Based on 93 User Ratings

6.8

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Summary The prequel to the 2001 film Wet Hot American Summer set during the first days of camp features a majority of the original cast including Michael Ian Black, Bradley Cooper, Janeane Garofalo, David Hyde Pierce, Christopher Meloni, Amy Poehler, Paul Rudd, and Molly Shannon.

Comedy

Created By: Michael Showalter, David Wain

Where to Watch

All Seasons

8 Episodes • 2015

Critic Reviews

Metascore

Generally Favorable Based on 23 Critic Reviews

78% Positive
18 Reviews

22% Mixed
5 Reviews

0% Negative
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Critic Reviews

Metascore

Generally Favorable Based on 23 Critic Reviews

78% Positive
18 Reviews

22% Mixed
5 Reviews

0% Negative
0 Reviews

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Negative Reviews

Jul 30, 2015

The series actually improves on the movie. This is consistently funnier, weirder and more inventive.

By Verne Gay FULL REVIEW

Jul 30, 2015

The eight episodes together make for just four hours of television, which is only a bit longer than a very long movie; the natural breaks of title sequences and credits serve to break up the gleefully disjointed adventures into bookended chapters. And because making a prequel series 15 years later with the same actors set on just one day is patently ridiculous, the style of humor that Showalter and his longtime collaborator David Wain bring to Wet Hot American Summer: First Day Of Camp is spot-on: It embraces that absurdity, and pushes it to every possible extreme.

By Sonia Saraiya FULL REVIEW

Jul 29, 2015

The episodes unfurl in an excess of good-natured silliness.

By Willa Paskin FULL REVIEW

The Hollywood Reporter

Jul 22, 2015

Wain and Showalter mostly acquit themselves, and for every dud plotline (“Coop’s” romantic flailings are actually more of a drag this time out) there’s a correspondingly uproarious one.

By Keith Uhlich FULL REVIEW

The New York Times

Jul 30, 2015

The shaggy humor is amusing enough.

By Mike Hale FULL REVIEW

Las Vegas Weekly

Jul 29, 2015

With a cast expanded to include tons of popular comedic performers, First Day of Camp is frequently funny, even when its jokes don’t amount to much. Fans of the movie will probably watch it over and over again, making Netflix executives very happy. Everyone else will remain baffled.

By Josh Bell FULL REVIEW

Jul 23, 2015

The series ultimately feels like a nostalgia trip, less for the era in which it's set than for the original film that spawned it.

By Chris Cabin FULL REVIEW

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User Reviews

User Score

Generally Favorable Based on 93 User Ratings

67% Positive
62 Ratings

17% Mixed
16 Ratings

16% Negative
15 Ratings

User Reviews

User Score

Generally Favorable Based on 93 User Ratings

67% Positive
62 Ratings

17% Mixed
16 Ratings

16% Negative
15 Ratings

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Details

Production Company:

Abominable Pictures

Initial Release Date: Jul 31, 2015

Number of seasons: 1 Season

Rating: TV-MA

Genres:

Comedy

Awards

Critics Choice Television Awards

• 1 Nomination

Motion Picture Sound Editors, USA

• 1 Nomination

IGN Summer Movie Awards

• 1 Nomination

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