Critic Reviews

The characters, scripts and performances are surprisingly smart--almost, dare I say, deep. And you still get the comic humiliations, nasty rivalries and teeny bikinis.

Ironically, Griffiths at times may be a little too much actress for her role. But it takes a village to make a Camp, and watching this crew work to save Little Otter and find summer love is far from the worst thing you could do at 10 o’clock on Wednesday night

It's an old story. But co-creator Liz Heldens is fluent in teen-speak. [19 Jul 2013, p.80]

The show, starring Six Feet Under’s Rachel Griffiths (as the camp manager going through a divorce from her husband/business partner), has sweetness and good-hearted humor.

What emerges, in the three episodes made available for review, is an accessible, easily imbibed summertime series that basically beats actually going to camp for an entire gut-wrenching summer.

This new hour-long comedy is a bustling, rather scattered affair. [15 Jul 2013]

Camp tries to sound cleverer than its conceit, but the series is most appealing when it keeps in mind that everybody has a story to tell about that one special summer at sleep-away camp.

Griffiths does her best to hold the show together as a scattered woman coming into her own.

Camp essentially needs to calm down and narrow its central focus on maybe half the characters and storylines it bombards us with.

Clearly, there's a new camp experience to be mined. Early on, though, Camp doesn't do much digging.