SummaryThe 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
❮ Dead of Summer
Season 1
Season Premiere:
Jun 28, 2016
Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
39
User score
Generally Favorable
6.6
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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
9% Positive
1 Review
1 Review
45% Mixed
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
45% Negative
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
Jun 29, 2016
70
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.
Jun 28, 2016
50
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.
User score
Generally Favorable
66% Positive
31 Ratings
31 Ratings
2% Mixed
1 Rating
1 Rating
32% Negative
15 Ratings
15 Ratings
Aug 29, 2016
10
The show was slow to start but started picking up when the character development kicked in. The overall show was decent with the 9th episode (hopefully season, not series finale) Twist ending making all worth it!
Aug 25, 2016
10
At the first episodes, it was boring and it looks like a parody, but the characters are very interesting and the plot twist was amazing. I love It.I highly recommended it. The actress who plays Amy is very talented
Jun 28, 2016
50
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.
Jun 27, 2016
50
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.
Jun 27, 2016
30
This mélange of styles may be intentional, but it fails to cohere into anything amusing or frightening.
Jun 28, 2016
20
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.
Jun 28, 2016
10
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.
Aug 5, 2016
10
Very good show. The 2nd episode was the best so far. The first 20 minutes of Episode 1 were boring, but after that it was awesome. Overall, I'd give it a 10/10.
Aug 4, 2016
10
I love this show! I look forward to every Tuesday for this reason. All the actors play there roles very well, and the show isn't to creepy that it scares people so much, and it is an amazing thriller, always leaving you hanging.
Aug 31, 2016
2
Being a 80s horror fan. this show got my attention, but failed to hold it. I got through the season, but only because I was watching it with someone else. The music was good. I was in my teens to early twenties when this was set. I knew a lot of gay people, few were that out in the Midwest. I don't remember any open trans-kids. The show pushed a lot of today's issues, agendas & ideals onto a time when they didn't exist. The acting, writing & effects, were horrible. Any music used that hadn't been recorded in the 80s sounded like cheap, Cinemax soft-core, porn background music. This was a flop.
Jun 29, 2016
0
For older people, or people who've been told a lot of stories, this show is terrible. It's a mishmash of everything you've ever seen before blended together for no good reason to no good end with random 80s references. Characters screaming at everything doesn't make something scary, and the acting is wooden at best, even the usually very good Elizabeth Mitchell. If you're really bored, and very lonely, or you're 14, this is for you.
