Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp

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Season 1
  • Network: Netflix
  • Series Premiere Date: Jul 31, 2015
User Score
6.8

Generally favorable reviews- based on 89 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 59 out of 89
  2. Mixed: 15 out of 89
  3. Negative: 15 out of 89
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  1. TheWaffle
    Aug 15, 2015
    0
    Full disclosure, I watched the first half of the first episode and stopped watching because it was awful. With all the buzz, the hype, and everyone ranting about how excited they were I expected it at least to be funny. It's not. I watched at least a dozen gags that were clearly meant to be jokes, but they weren't funny. I love Amy Poehler, Bradley Cooper, Paul Rudd, and the rest of themFull disclosure, I watched the first half of the first episode and stopped watching because it was awful. With all the buzz, the hype, and everyone ranting about how excited they were I expected it at least to be funny. It's not. I watched at least a dozen gags that were clearly meant to be jokes, but they weren't funny. I love Amy Poehler, Bradley Cooper, Paul Rudd, and the rest of them in everything else, but this plays like a show made for a high school film class, it's not funny even though it tries painfully hard to be.… Expand
  2. Cheebapit
    Aug 6, 2015
    2
    The people who experienced the movie during the era it came out are the only ones that stand to have a solid opinion on the series. I'm in my mid 30's and the movie when it came out was a way of life and influenced the direction of your social life practically. With that said, the series is exactly what I expected it be. A dull empty redux of an iconic film created by young aggressiveThe people who experienced the movie during the era it came out are the only ones that stand to have a solid opinion on the series. I'm in my mid 30's and the movie when it came out was a way of life and influenced the direction of your social life practically. With that said, the series is exactly what I expected it be. A dull empty redux of an iconic film created by young aggressive alternative comedic geniuses in the creative prime of their lives. Who brought with them, enough fresh untapped groundbreaking material to sink a cargo ship. Now why the very same people would come back 14 years later with nothing left but their hat in their hands material wise and attempt to fill a series with it, is a question that can be asked of most movie/series reboots these days. The formula is always the same. Young talent dumps life's blood into master work. Master work soars. Talent gets old, rich, and bored. What is born, is Wet Hot American snore. The series.… Expand
  3. penfifteen
    Aug 1, 2015
    2
    The first episode is fine but it goes downhill and it goes downhill fast. Seems like they decided to choose weird over funny in the hopes that the viewer couldn't tell the difference.
  4. madskull505
    Aug 2, 2015
    0
    Lost interest after episode 3 .
    Too much gimmick jokes, always had the vibe of feeling good due to its vibrant color and top actor actresses with diluted story line.
    Netflix was going for arrested developed type humor but failed with lame jokes and story.
  5. Ruly
    Aug 11, 2015
    0
    A mediocre and terrible show, the first episode is fine, but the rest of the season it's a mix of disappointment and embarrassment. The worst show of the year.
  6. psyberdelic
    Aug 9, 2015
    0
    Painfully stupid.... Turned it off after ten minutes... Got to have on hundred and fifty characters so I'll just say the writing is at the level of a twelve year old boy just reaching puberty...
  7. Knighthawk81
    Aug 3, 2015
    3
    This is a potentially funny concept, especially the idea of these 30s and 40s actors playing teens. The first episode was mildly amusing, at times, but it never really builds to anything great. I wasn't a huge fan of the original film, which is probably part of the problem here, but this wasn't really what I was expecting. I watched the first few episodes, and it was just weird and dull.
  8. Mazmorrero47
    Aug 2, 2015
    0
    Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp is the TV equivalent of Movie 43. How did they manage to get so many talented actors in such a painfully unfunny show? Yeah, I know some of them were in the movie, but after all the good work they've done, it's weird that they don't want to stay far away from this. Imagine if Leonardo DiCaprio appeared in a Critters show.
  9. EludiumQ36
    Mar 24, 2018
    2
    OMG what a huge fail this is. The show's creators must've pitched a tantalizing, coming of age series at summer camp then - surprise! - we're going to cast 50 yr old, has been, SNL washouts instead of young, nubile teens. What a wasted effort, wasted potential, this could've been great but was a fraudulent bait-and-switch. The title "Wet Hot American Summer" writes a check this geezer castOMG what a huge fail this is. The show's creators must've pitched a tantalizing, coming of age series at summer camp then - surprise! - we're going to cast 50 yr old, has been, SNL washouts instead of young, nubile teens. What a wasted effort, wasted potential, this could've been great but was a fraudulent bait-and-switch. The title "Wet Hot American Summer" writes a check this geezer cast bounces! I gave it a serious chance through episode 3 but then my gag reflex took over.… Expand
  10. moothemagiccow
    Dec 17, 2015
    3
    I have seen the movie like five times. I love it. I couldn't make it through ten minutes of the show.

    Did you like Stella or We Came Together? Watch this.
    Did you like Wanderlust or Role Models? Skip it.

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Metascore
74

Generally favorable reviews - based on 23 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 18 out of 23
  2. Mixed: 5 out of 23
  3. Negative: 0 out of 23
  1. The Wrap
    Reviewed by: Mark Peikert
    Aug 3, 2015
    70
    The 8-episode series (only six episodes were made available to critics) mostly succeeds by sheer force of will. The viewers are so bombarded by jokes that something is bound to tickle you eventually-–though truth be told it may take awhile.
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  2. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Robert Lloyd
    Jul 30, 2015
    70
    It will help to have at least a high tolerance for profane, scatological and sexual comedy and not to mind bad words spoken by actual children. (That the juvenile humor is appropriate to the characters provides cover for the adult exercise of juvenile humor.) This may not be for you. At the same time much of the comedy is quiet, settled in lines that just turn in odd ways.
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  3. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Mike Hale
    Jul 30, 2015
    70
    The shaggy humor is amusing enough.
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