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The series begins with a "perfect" group camping trip, obsessively organized by Kathryn McSorley-Jodell in honor of her adoring husband Walt's 45th birthday, is threatened by tension between Kathryn and her estranged best friend, Nina-Joy, the unexpected addition of an angry goth teen and the chaotic arrival of Miguel, who is smack dab in the middle of a breakdown and toting his new girlfriend, Jandice, a woman of many talents who rubs Kathryn the wrong way.
After her son, Orvis, gets banged up playing flag football, Kathryn rushes him to the hospital, flipping out about his health and the danger that Miguel's girlfriend, Jandice, poses to the weekend. As Kathryn and Walt attend to Orvis, the others hit a local bar, where a racially charged remark to Nina-Joy awakens George's rage. Elsewhere, Miguel and Jandice create real issues for a prissy shop owner.
When the guys go on a fishing trip, Walt opens up about his dead-in-the-water sex life; Jandice encourages Carleen to loosen up and embrace her female strength; Kathryn's attempt to mend things with Nina-Joy is overshadowed by a big announcement; Miguel and Jandice's first misunderstanding gets serious fast.
A late-night pill swap leads a buzzed Kathryn to crash a neighboring campsite, where she runs into Nina-Joy, Carleen and some chic old friends. Meanwhile, unsettled by a revelation from Miguel, Jandice ends up sharing a beer with a forbidden friend.
With her plans turned upside down, Kathryn decides to cede control during a trip to the grocery store. There, Carleen starts to unravel, while a fed-up Sol vents. Nina-Joy and George explore the state of their relationship. Miguel tries to get back on Jandice's good side but pays a price. -- (C) HBO
When Carleen goes missing, Kathryn's hunt for her sister finds her partnered with an eager Jandice, who wants to start fresh. Meanwhile, Walt tries on the role of unofficial deputy park ranger after coming to Harry for help. -- (C) HBO
With Walt's birthday party on the verge of collapse, Kathryn takes Jandice up on her wild suggestion. In the midst of the revelry, Nina-Joy is confronted by her past and makes up her mind about her future with George. Carleen returns to camp and doesn't like what she finds. -- (C) HBO
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The trouble isn't that these people are unlikable. It's that they're not unlikable enough.... And Camping isn't bad either, necessarily, it's just filled with a kind of empathy that's rather out of place.
Another perfectly serviceable series about awful people, but not a special one.
Garner's good but Camping is bad.
A camping trip you'd never want to take, with people you'd never like to meet, doing things you're almost embarrassed to watch.
"Camping" delivers an annoying character who is anything but amusing. She made me cringe, yes, but only because I couldn't wait to get away from her to go do my laundry and wash the dishes.
Camping all in all is less fun than waves of dive-bombing mosquitoes. Hell, even a good ol' baked bean-infused fart-fest around the campfire would be a welcome diversion.
One is left with the impression that 'Camping' wants to be a great comedy, but can't. [Full Review in Spanish]
Because neither Dunham nor Konner have the instinct to pierce their characters' jugulars, Camping becomes an accidental portrait of toxic femininity.
Instead of a wild weekend, this is another observational sitcom with a high cringe quota.
But the general sense is that Camping is working its ass off for not quite enough reward.
Jennifer Garner is totally miscast in the eight-episode Camping as the personification of every bad L.A. cliché you can think of.
It's likely too late for Dunham's latest effort to become anything more than a footnote in an otherwise interesting career.
Audience Reviews for Camping: Season 1
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Jul 11, 2020Hilarious, and bitter
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Jan 23, 2019Show is brilliant. Only a low rating because people, yet again, fail to understand Lena's choosing of annoying personalities to cater to the hilarity. I guess you've gotta be a misanthrope to love Lena's character work, which is fine because I am.
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Jan 07, 2019If not for Game of Thrones coming back for its final season, this would have been enough for me to drop HBO, entirely.
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Jan 07, 2019What a terrible, terrible show. I don't know who approved this, but HBO should conduct a full and thorough investigation and get to the bottom of this. First things first, this should have been a 68 minute direct to dvd movie. This was a complete and utter rip off of so many other movies, it's not even funny. I desperately wanted this to be funny, and after watching the entire series I felt so violated and like I had just been robbed of my time, bandwidth and mental sanity.
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Jan 04, 2019I watched to the end hoping for some punch line, but it never happened. Unless the audience was being punked by the whole thing. Poor David Tennant was probably looking for his Tardis to get out of this mess. In the end, there was no one to care about, and no reason for it.
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Dec 17, 2018I watched this because of David Tennant. I wish that I hadnt. Mindless story. unlikeable characters, dull and silly dialogue. David was the least dislikeable character but even he could not save this mess. I will wait to watch him in Good Omens, instead.
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Dec 12, 2018Funny and well shot. Jennifer Garner is INCREDIBLE
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Dec 02, 2018Awful, just awful. Having to watch it again would be cruel and unusual punishment. How does HBO justify putting this on the air?
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Nov 26, 2018Absolutely Brilliant!!! Great acting, truly funny script. Loved it!
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Nov 26, 2018What is there to like?
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