Camping 2016, written by and starring Julia Davis. If you've seen any of Julia Davis's previous work, or have been camping or more likely you've been camping with friends and their respective partners you'll know what to expect.
Plot take a group of friends for one of the groups 50th birthday. Put them in a socially awkward situations and see what happens, then throw into the mix a male going through a mid life crisis, following a separation who subsequently brings along his rampant girlfriend, plus to make matters worse it's their honeymoon phase. Their apparent blissful bonkafons highlight the bored marriages that the two other couples are stuck in.
That's only the half of it, I can't really describe or do it any justice to the delights within the 3 hours of the series.
Picture an hybrid mix of Nuts in May with Carry on Camping, along with a heady mix of Sightseers. This series isn't for everyone but it is for anyone who has woken up with a stiff back, a stiffy or a pain in the neck for a girlfriend.... Camping the hobby is great but gets more and more painful the older you get, Camping the series is great and improves like a warm beer in the bottom of your sleeping bag. To misquote control freak Fiona "this work's for me".
Oh no! Its all the above and none of it, its a grotesque nightmare in which social norms and expectations are thrown away. The films of Ben Wheatley comes to mind and what appears to be fun isn't.
This is one to watch if you want to see the very dark side of writers Julia Davis and Vicki Pepperdene, but you do have to stick to the end.
A classic 10/10.
Plot take a group of friends for one of the groups 50th birthday. Put them in a socially awkward situations and see what happens, then throw into the mix a male going through a mid life crisis, following a separation who subsequently brings along his rampant girlfriend, plus to make matters worse it's their honeymoon phase. Their apparent blissful bonkafons highlight the bored marriages that the two other couples are stuck in.
That's only the half of it, I can't really describe or do it any justice to the delights within the 3 hours of the series.
Picture an hybrid mix of Nuts in May with Carry on Camping, along with a heady mix of Sightseers. This series isn't for everyone but it is for anyone who has woken up with a stiff back, a stiffy or a pain in the neck for a girlfriend.... Camping the hobby is great but gets more and more painful the older you get, Camping the series is great and improves like a warm beer in the bottom of your sleeping bag. To misquote control freak Fiona "this work's for me".
Oh no! Its all the above and none of it, its a grotesque nightmare in which social norms and expectations are thrown away. The films of Ben Wheatley comes to mind and what appears to be fun isn't.
This is one to watch if you want to see the very dark side of writers Julia Davis and Vicki Pepperdene, but you do have to stick to the end.
A classic 10/10.