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- HBO
- Apr 12, 2016
- HBO
- Apr 12, 2016
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
- HBO
- Apr 12, 2016
- HBO
- Apr 12, 2016
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
7 Reviews
52% Mixed
15 Reviews
15 Reviews
24% Negative
7 Reviews
7 Reviews
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 29 Critic Reviews
50
24% Positive
7 Reviews
7 Reviews
52% Mixed
15 Reviews
15 Reviews
24% Negative
7 Reviews
7 Reviews
A very funny, quasi-cringy series that takes the Sartre-esque point of view into the great outdoors.
Fine actors, one and all, saddled with playing caricatures who have one or two thinly drawn storylines apiece.
User Score
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 22 User Ratings
3.3
27% Positive
6 Ratings
6 Ratings
14% Mixed
3 Ratings
3 Ratings
59% Negative
13 Ratings
13 Ratings
User Score
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 22 User Ratings
3.3
27% Positive
6 Ratings
6 Ratings
14% Mixed
3 Ratings
3 Ratings
59% Negative
13 Ratings
13 Ratings
Not sure why all the negative reviews. I think the show's a bit inconsistent at time, but overall, pretty hilarious. I don't usually watch a lot of comedies, but this one was quirky enough with just the right mix of weird characters to make me like it. Of course, I'd probably like anything with Juliette Lewis so maybe that's part of it.
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SEASON 1
A US remake of a British series (that I didn't watch so I can't compare). Great cast, and good script but it got a 8 from me as I think Jennifer Garner (so good in dramas) overacts a bit too much.
David Tennant and Juliette Lewis always perfect and a pleasure to watch
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SEASON 1
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I have never felt compelled to write a review for any movie or TV show. After reading all of the negative reviews of Camping, which I almost didn’t watch because it was panned so often, I must say something.
I thought to myself “Jennifer Garner, Juliette Lewis, Bridgette Everett, how bad could it be?” The answer is that it’s pretty funny. Not great but I laughed at least three times during the first two episodes. That’s way better than average for me.
Maybe Lena Dunham fans expected some more pretentious BS and this isn’t hip enough for them. It has some good jokes, some really good comedic acting and it’s better than most people are writing.
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SEASON 1
Sadly, I couldn't get past the first episode. I have no idea who this series is for. It's not funny like a Wet Hot American Summer, and it's not serous like Top of the Lake. It just burdensome.
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SEASON 1
Considering Lena Dunham's involvement in this it's not as bad as I thought it would be. That said, the overacting is hard to take by Garner and all the male friends (not to mention the camp owners). I watched the first one and none of the characters come off as real (or real funny). Maybe if Dunham let a funny writer take a shot instead of having to bring back jokes like "9-0-2-1-Pho" as if we missed it the first time and/or maybe would find it funny on second mention. It's not. I did like Walt and Juliette Lewis is competent.
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SEASON 1
This is almost painful to watch. The characters, Garner and Juliette Lewis in particular, are way over the top - we get it, a helicopter mom / wife / hypochondriac and a free spirited hippie healer to the max. The hammer-us-over-the-head approach to these two is mind-numbing. The other characters are swallowed up in this travesty of a program. Not unlike Roseanne Barr, it may be possible that Lena Dunham (and no she's not a racist) may be yet another one hit wonder unable to deliver when it's not 100% centered on her own story. Other than Lisa Kudrow's cringeworthy "The Comeback" the all time worst HBO show ever, this may be in the running for second worst..
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SEASON 1
This is probably the worst piece of garbage HBO has ever aired. This must have been a package production deal HBO made with Denham because I cannot come up with any other plausible explanation as to why this made it to post-production.
Anybody professionally tied to this production should be ashamed.
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SEASON 1