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Rio Hayward All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

Wyatt There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

likelyd Camping starts out with a gentle English journey to the countryside, but there's a dark foreboding that fans of Julia Davis will soon pick up on. Each episode becomes darker and more disturbing, but infinitely more funny as the characters develop and their real unpleasantness soon becomes only too clear. The cringe level makes Peep Show look like Jackanory and as the storyline builds to the incredible final episode we're left shaking our heads in disbelief at the unpleasantness of these self-absorbed characters. At the end of the final episode I was laughing so hard that I was almost crying, but most of all I was thinking, What the hell happened to Tom?

stuart thomas I had a long, proper review of this all written out but, in the end I couldn't be bothered. This is a terribly disappointing series. What starts out as a really promising comedy situation soon becomes a miserable drudge through a few days with the most deeply unpleasant human beings I've seen portrayed in some years. I was hoping for something like 'Detectorists'- gentle, British humour with a real-life undertone and some serious moments of real depth. Instead you get a bunch of vastly over-exaggerated caricatures, none of which you can feel any sympathy or goodwill towards. They are by turns selfish, pathetic, loveless, hopeless, arrogant, malevolent and nasty, never showing any real humanity towards one another. The only two you do feel anything for are the children who, if there's any justice, will spend the last episode casually murdering their adult relatives in their sleep. I'm not sure what Camping was trying to be because comedy it really is not. I suspect it's trying to be 'The Office' or 'Shameless', where characters are wittily observed and exaggerated for great effect but this slips wide of the mark if that's the case. There is no fun to be had here.

duncanwn Firstly, before I give my opinion, I have to comment on that of others. Saying re: Tom and Fay "the bloke with his new girlfriend is just embarrassing" shows that you've entirely missed the point. Of COURSE its embarrassing. Its supposed to be embarrassing, cringeworthy even. What you've done there is identified what the writer intends the audience to do, then listed it as a bad point. Why? Its like saying you don't like The Office because David Brent isn't a very good manager. Another reviewer mentions that a character "grates." - Yes, again, well done for stating the obvious. That's because the writer wants to convey the awkwardness and closeness of a holiday with other people, particularly in the claustrophobic microcosm of a camping holiday. People do "grate" but you're all in it together for 7 or 14 days - biting your tongue is just as essential as a groundsheet on a camping holiday with "other couples". Now I've run out of room to praise the incredible dialogue "I just went into Topshop and expressed myself. They're skinny carrots." Tells you EVERYTHING you need to know about a 40-something man trying to be 28 again. Julia Davis - promise me you will never stop making your characters say aloud what the rest of us are ashamed for even thinking. I'm off to a covered arcade with my hessian tote...

tincatinca-83500 I thought comedy was meant to be funny, and I love dark comedy, but this is dreadful. I watched the first episode and I found it to be totally cringe worthy to be honest. I have no idea why someone as talented as Steve Pemberton would get caught up in this nonsense. The main character is a very bossy out of control wife, which is OK for 30 seconds but very quickly becomes a major irritating factor which spoils the show. The attempts at humour are shallow and the bloke with his new girlfriend is just embarrassing. I can only assume that the previous review who gave it 10 stars was watching a different show. I did not laugh once and 'endured' the show as my partner wanted to see it. At the end we just looked at each other in bewilderment. Absolute garbage.