We’ve finally had a chance to see all eight episodes of “Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp” in its entirety, and if we have one prevailing emotion out of all of this, it is satisfaction. This was a very funny, lighthearted romp through a part of history that we loved so much in […]
With the end of “Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp” just about upon us, it feels pretty clear that almost everything in the world that is chaotic is starting to slowly hover over Camp Firewood. You’ve got The Falcon on his way, and Camp Tigerclaw to go along with it. The latter comes […]
The musical finally arrived on episode 6 of “Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp,” and dare we say that it was more than what we thought it would be? We’ve been pretty clear over reviewing the last few episodes that we haven’t loved this story as much as some others, mostly because we […]
We come out of the fifth episode of “Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp” feeling somewhat mixed, mostly because we spent a good several minutes of the episode on a Jonas / Viktor escape gag that may have been too much of something from the original movie, and with so much time there, […]
“Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp” continues its tradition of being completely absurd with its fourth episode “Auditions,” which may be the biggest yet when it comes to a celebrity presence. Jon Hamm continues to be entertaining as the government assassin The Falcon, while this episode also brought us the first appearance of […]
“Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp” is for the most part completely absurd. Yet, who knew that they would have such a spirit of continuity to everything that they did? After learning in the second episode (read our review for that here) that Lindsay was actually a terrible reporter from a fake rock-and-roll […]
If “Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp” wanted to completely blow us away with character backstory, they definitely did that by starting up the second episode with the real backstory of Lindsay (Elizabeth Banks) as a journalist for a rock magazine desperate to prove herself. Therefore, she goes undercover at Camp Firewood to better understand […]
We wish we could say “how we missed you” to “Wet Hot American Summer,” but the reality is that we only watched the movie for the first time earlier this week in preparation of checking out the Netflix prequel. Therefore, we don’t have the sense of nostalgia tied into the film in the way in […]
