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- 2016
- TV-14
- Freeform
- 2016
- TV-14
- Freeform
Summary The drama series from Adam Horowitz, Edward Kitsis, and Ian Goldberg is set in the 1980s at Camp Stillwater, a midwestern summer camp where danger also looms.
Created By: Ian Goldberg, Adam Horowitz, Edward Kitsis
- 2016
- TV-14
- Freeform
- 2016
- TV-14
- Freeform
Dead of Summer
Season 1 Premiere: Jun 28, 2016
39
6.5
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Summary The drama series from Adam Horowitz, Edward Kitsis, and Ian Goldberg is set in the 1980s at Camp Stillwater, a midwestern summer camp where danger also looms.
Created By: Ian Goldberg, Adam Horowitz, Edward Kitsis
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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 11 Critic Reviews
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9% Positive
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45% Mixed
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45% Negative
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 11 Critic Reviews
39
9% Positive
1 Review
1 Review
45% Mixed
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
45% Negative
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
It’s that fuck-it sense of kitchen sink 80’s nostalgia that endears me to Dead of Summer, despite its failings. It’s overkill, but at least it’s trying to be more than the next show down the thriller list on your DVR whose season pass you delete after 2 weeks.
This is not a show that is particularly original; every twist is a cliché, and every character is playing to type. But with so many well-worn at play, Dead of Summer makes for a schlocky hour that never quite gets boring.
Adam Horowitz, Edward Kitsis and Ian B. Goldberg ("Once Upon a Time") created Dead of Summer, and they have paid more attention to the moody atmosphere and opportunities for scares than to the characters--at least, the living ones.
While this new series makes some dubious choices with its characters and setting (Why did it need to be set in 1989?), the premiere of Dead of Summer provided much of what I look for in a summer show--an enjoyable distraction.
This mélange of styles may be intentional, but it fails to cohere into anything amusing or frightening.
The result is a disjointed, absurd and only mildly frightening story that, three hours in, is still flailing more frantically than a teen falling out of a canoe into a lake full of corpses.
After watching a mere two episodes, I felt as though I’d squandered an entire summer watching Dead of Summer, a supernatural/horror/YA drama/soap opera, which starts moldering on Freeform Tuesday night.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 49 User Ratings
6.5
63% Positive
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6% Mixed
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31% Negative
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User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 49 User Ratings
6.5
63% Positive
31 Ratings
31 Ratings
6% Mixed
3 Ratings
3 Ratings
31% Negative
15 Ratings
15 Ratings
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Production Company:
- Kitsis/Horowitz
- ABC Signature
Initial Release Date: Jun 28, 2016
Number of seasons: 1 Season
Rating: TV-14
Awards
The Joey Awards, Vancouver
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Canadian Society of Cinematographers Awards
• 1 Nomination
Leo Awards
• 1 Nomination
