Cinematography:
Quyen TranComposer:
Ben LeeCast:
Jennifer Garner, David Tennant, Janicza Bravo, Arturo del Puerto, Brett Gelman, Duncan Joiner, Juliette Lewis, Ione Skye, Rhiannon Leigh Wryn (more)Episodes(8)
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Pilot (E01)
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Going to Town (E02)
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Fishing Trip (E03)
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Up All Night (E04)
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Just Plain Mad (E05)
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Carleen?! (E06)
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Birthday Party (Part 1) (E07)
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Birthday Party (Part 2) (E08)
Plots(1)
Camping stars Jennifer Garner and David Tennant as Kathryn and Walt, a not-so-happily married couple. A meticulously planned outdoor trip to celebrate Walt’s 45th birthday is derailed by uninvited guests and forces of nature, turning the weekend into a test of marriage and friendships. (Home Box Office)
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Reviews (2)
This is what happens when the government locks you in a village with nowhere to go except for concrete panel buildings around the village and a biogas plant on the other side of the town and you have an insatiable desire (even greater than usual) to go into nature and camp. So what do you think of when you're sitting in a chair and can't do anything? For example, if you have HBO Go on, you might think of the Camping series. Or at least that's what I thought of. I told myself I couldn't, so I'll at least look at how the Americans camp. But I shouldn't have done that. In this series, there are, pardon my language, a bunch of idiots who behave like idiots. I only watched it to see what else I would experience. Many times I couldn't believe that someone could even come up with some scenes. Nevertheless, a lesson did come from the series - it's better to be locked in quarantine for a month than to camp with an American.
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I can understand that Lena Dunham needed to vent about her personal health problems. And yet I do not understand why she does it in the form of the uptight Kathryn, who from the outset discourages any further engagement. The rest of the group consists of people who are either cranky or downright unbearable. Moreover, it is such a heterogeneous group that I cannot imagine anyone from the audience truly falling in love with them and being able to see them as anything other than a bizarre sociological experiment. The final nail in the coffin of all potential is the decision to cast possibly the most multi-faceted actor in television, David Tennant, in the thankless role of a stunted man with a hat. And even he, no matter how much the script constantly tries to elevate all the male characters to a plane where they admire the most obnoxious character, the cunning and worn-out Jandice, here he seems like the only man you can at least partially identify with. Thank heavens that Camping only ran for one season. These campers are petty people – and they won't get any better over time.
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