SummaryThe prequel to the 2001 film Wet Hot American Summer set during the first days of camp features a majority of the original cast including Michael Ian Black, Bradley Cooper, Janeane Garofalo, David Hyde Pierce, Christopher Meloni, Amy Poehler, Paul Rudd, and Molly Shannon.
Created By:Michael Showalter, David Wain
Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp
Season 1 Premiere:
Jul 31, 2015
Metascore
Generally Favorable
74
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Generally Favorable
6.9
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78% Positive
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Jul 30, 2015
91
The series actually improves on the movie. This is consistently funnier, weirder and more inventive.
Jul 30, 2015
80
The eight episodes together make for just four hours of television, which is only a bit longer than a very long movie; the natural breaks of title sequences and credits serve to break up the gleefully disjointed adventures into bookended chapters. And because making a prequel series 15 years later with the same actors set on just one day is patently ridiculous, the style of humor that Showalter and his longtime collaborator David Wain bring to Wet Hot American Summer: First Day Of Camp is spot-on: It embraces that absurdity, and pushes it to every possible extreme.
Jul 22, 2015
80
Wain and Showalter mostly acquit themselves, and for every dud plotline (“Coop’s” romantic flailings are actually more of a drag this time out) there’s a correspondingly uproarious one.
Jul 29, 2015
60
With a cast expanded to include tons of popular comedic performers, First Day of Camp is frequently funny, even when its jokes don’t amount to much. Fans of the movie will probably watch it over and over again, making Netflix executives very happy. Everyone else will remain baffled.
Jul 23, 2015
50
The series ultimately feels like a nostalgia trip, less for the era in which it's set than for the original film that spawned it.
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Aug 21, 2020
10
I’ve already done a review about the movie recently and it has the same effect on me as the show does. However, the show is ten times stupider, which I may like better that way. Many parts of the show are very frustrating, but that’s all part of the charm of it. If the movie wasn’t weird enough with 20-year olds playing 16 year olds, these actors are 30-year olds playing the same 16-year olds, but two months prior. So, the characters are younger but the actors are older. This show is absolute absurdity and full of intentional plot holes. I love it with all my heart. In fact, as a freshman in college I was hanging out with some friends and they put on the show. Rather than talk to the girls in the room, I was enthralled by how surprisingly funny the show was. Later on, I was introduced to the movie and the second show. But, I was drawn in by “First Day of Camp” and I’ve watched it probably ten times now. It never gets old and I keep noticing new things.
