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. Mantis
    Aug 9, 2016
    5
    Disappointing. Expected so much from seeing the trailer and some of my favorite actors in this show.
    Sadly, it is over the top. Normally I love that kind of humor such as seen in 'Parks and Recreation', however this here did not make me laugh much rather laugh in despair. The story is ridiculous enough to see through, yet I wish I hadn't invested that time. Good thing the show is not that    Disappointing. Expected so much from seeing the trailer and some of my favorite actors in this show.
    Sadly, it is over the top. Normally I love that kind of humor such as seen in 'Parks and Recreation', however this here did not make me laugh much rather laugh in despair. The story is ridiculous enough to see through, yet I wish I hadn't invested that time. Good thing the show is not that extensive.    … Expand
  2. undercontrol
    Aug 13, 2015
    6
    Sometimes funny, sometimes just stupid and not funny at all. It's rated "TV-MA"... don't understand why, because some of the jokes seemed to be written for toddlers.
  3. cherold
    Jan 30, 2016
    4
    First off, I like the idea of bringing back the original cast of a movie decades later and having them play slightly younger versions of their original characters. It's really more interesting than doing the obvious and bringing them back to play aged versions of their original characters.

    But the series - or at least the first episode, which is all I saw - didn't do anything with it.    First off, I like the idea of bringing back the original cast of a movie decades later and having them play slightly younger versions of their original characters. It's really more interesting than doing the obvious and bringing them back to play aged versions of their original characters.

    But the series - or at least the first episode, which is all I saw - didn't do anything with it. The actors play the characters they played just the way they played them all those years ago, without a wink. Which feels like a missed opportunity.

    Still, that wouldn't be a problem if the series was funny. But I didn't laugh once. Some of the jokes may rely on your having seen the movie enough times to be intimately familiar with it - I liked it a lot when I saw it, but that was a long time ago - but even then, *something* should have been funny.

    Still, humor is down to individual taste; a lot of people seem to think this is funny. I'm just not one of those people.    … Expand

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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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