Too mean-spirited to be funny
Despite some amusing lines and situations, over the six episodes Camping is too relentlessly unpleasant to be funny.
Depressing and hard to watch.
I'm sorry it struck you like that. I thought it drew its characters well and gave a familiar tone to them without having stereotypes.
What in particular was unpleasant to you, can you give some examples?
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Free your mind and the rest will follow
Nothing specific I'm afraid, it's an overall feel after watching all episodes.
Maybe it's just the overkill of unlikeable characters being relentlessly horrible to each other.
Don't get me wrong, I love dark comedy. But there is no balance here, it's just people behaving incredibly badly. There needs to be some light to balance things out. The viewer can then better appreciate the dark stuff. You can enjoy a couple of episodes but it quickly becomes tiresome.
The British comedy fraternity won't agree, but to me Nighty Night had the same problem.
I understand what you mean as I've felt like that with other programmes. Extras series 2 was one for me.
I didn't get that from this series but I can see why you could, it's a fair point of view.
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Free your mind and the rest will follow
It was a bit like being an accidental observer when a bickering couple spill over into full blown argument.Uncomfortable and somehow you want to be anywhere but there but fascinating all the same.
I agree that most of the characters were unlikeable.Even the benign characters were crying out to be slapped!
Although I rather enjoyed this rather awkward comedy I couldn't help but think that these people would probably not have been friends in real life and that,at times,lifted me out of it.
Although there's been rain and it's coming again
Change has to be here obviously
I've just discovered this on NowTV and am enjoying it. The characters are different and not predictable and unlike most sitcoms that don't work, balances well on the edge of subtlety.
Not many hold my interest so I'll be sticking with it. Plus 'Fi' is an almost exact copy of my mates wife, just a little older.
You are in for a treat. Me and the wife watched it over the last two nights on NowTV. What starts off predictably funny turns and ends rather dark indeed. I was watching through my fingers towards the end. Julia Davis is a genius. Great TV.
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