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  • 2016
  • HBO
  • 2016
  • HBO

Summary Kathryn McSorley-Jodell (Jennifer Garner) organizes a 45th birthday camping celebration for her husband Walt (David Tennant) and invites her sister Carleen (Ione Skye), her friends Nina-Joy (Janicza Bravo), Walt's best friend George (Brett Gelman), free-spirited Jandice (Juliette Lewis), and Harry (Bridget Everett) in this comedy based o...

Created By: Julia Davis

  • 2016
  • HBO
  • 2016
  • HBO

Camping

Season 1 Premiere: Apr 12, 2016
Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 29 Critic Reviews
50
User Score Generally Unfavorable Based on 24 User Ratings
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Summary Kathryn McSorley-Jodell (Jennifer Garner) organizes a 45th birthday camping celebration for her husband Walt (David Tennant) and invites her sister Carleen (Ione Skye), her friends Nina-Joy (Janicza Bravo), Walt's best friend George (Brett Gelman), free-spirited Jandice (Juliette Lewis), and Harry (Bridget Everett) in this comedy based o...

Created By: Julia Davis

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 29 Critic Reviews
50
24% Positive
7 Reviews
52% Mixed
15 Reviews
24% Negative
7 Reviews

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 29 Critic Reviews
50
24% Positive
7 Reviews
52% Mixed
15 Reviews
24% Negative
7 Reviews

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80
Oct 11, 2018
A very funny, quasi-cringy series that takes the Sartre-esque point of view into the great outdoors.
By John Anderson FULL REVIEW
63
Dec 14, 2018
Fine actors, one and all, saddled with playing caricatures who have one or two thinly drawn storylines apiece.
By Richard Roeper FULL REVIEW
50
Oct 16, 2018
The comedy of social discomfort can be exquisite, like a deep-tissue massage that hurts until it feels good. Camping has moments like that. But too often it shoots past cringe comedy into straight-up cruelty without relief or enough redeeming laughs, becoming a “No Exit” experience of watching the terrible be terrible to the terrible.
By James Poniewozik FULL REVIEW
50
Oct 11, 2018
As a series, it’s a chore to watch. There’s nothing true or telling about the 40-something generation it casts in a ridiculously self-indulgent glow. If Camping serves any function, it’s as a summit on human failure, so the viewers can feel a little better about their own flaws.
By Peter Hartlaub FULL REVIEW
40
Oct 15, 2018
Garner gives Kathryn a nicely manic energy and a comically absurd kind of shrewishness. But Dunham and Konner, who co-wrote the first two episodes, seem to want to comprehend Kathryn’s awfulness rather than to present it as a simple reality in a comic setup. ... Otherwise, Camping has a zany mood and typically sharp writing that makes it more watchable in later episodes (particularly when Busy Philipps suddenly shows up). ... Camping isn’t bad either, necessarily, it’s just filled with a kind of empathy that’s rather out of place.
By Sophie Gilbert FULL REVIEW
33
Oct 12, 2018
It’s a waste of a fine cast and a bucolic setting. One possible upside for the series is that Camping might inspire people to go camping themselves, just to get away from TV for awhile.
By Gwen Ihnat FULL REVIEW
20
Oct 11, 2018
What is the point of this show? If it’s not laughs or personal growth, is it just a slice-of-life comedy about unlikable people? That’s not enough, especially in this overcrowded TV landscape. ... Despite high hopes for this combination of Dunham’s writing talent and Garner’s charisma, there just isn’t enough over the first four episodes to really make this a comedy worth tuning into. You can skip this Camping trip.
By Andrea Reiher FULL REVIEW

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Generally Unfavorable Based on 24 User Ratings
3.4
29% Positive
7 Ratings
13% Mixed
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58% Negative
14 Ratings

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29% Positive
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13% Mixed
3 Ratings
58% Negative
14 Ratings

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Production Company:
  • Baby Cow Productions
Initial Release Date: Apr 12, 2016
Number of seasons: 1 Season
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Awards

BAFTA Awards
• 2 Nominations
Bafta TV Craft
• 1 Nomination
British Screenwriters' Awards
• 1 Nomination

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