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.
Review of Camping
