https://staging2.theplaylist.net/review-wet-hot-american-summer-first-day-of-camp-and-the-danger-of-nostalgia-driven-reboots-20150804/ Mon, 23 May 2016 02:44:33 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 https://staging2.theplaylist.net/review-wet-hot-american-summer-first-day-of-camp-and-the-danger-of-nostalgia-driven-reboots-20150804/#comment-127409 Mon, 23 May 2016 02:44:33 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2015/more/uncategorized/review-wet-hot-american-summer-first-day-of-camp-and-the-danger-of-nostalgia-driven-reboots-261180/#comment-127409 Dumbest thing I\’ve ever seen. I got as far as the talking can before I turned it off and deleted it from my list. Totally assenin garbage. Which would be ok if it was funny but it is so profoundly not funny.

]]> https://staging2.theplaylist.net/review-wet-hot-american-summer-first-day-of-camp-and-the-danger-of-nostalgia-driven-reboots-20150804/#comment-127410 Mon, 23 May 2016 02:44:33 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2015/more/uncategorized/review-wet-hot-american-summer-first-day-of-camp-and-the-danger-of-nostalgia-driven-reboots-261180/#comment-127410 The people who experienced the movie during the era it came out are the only ones that stand to have a solid opinion on the series. I\’m in my mid 30\’s and the movie when it came out was a way of life and influenced the direction of your social life practically. With that said, the series is exactly what I expected it be. A dull empty redux of an iconic film created by young aggressive alternative comedic geniuses in the creative prime of their lives. Who brought with them, enough fresh untapped groundbreaking material to sink a cargo ship. Now why the very same people would come back 14 years later with nothing left but their hat in their hands material wise and attempt to fill a series with it, is a question that can be asked of most movie/series reboots these days. The formula is always the same. Young talent dumps life\’s blood into master work. Master work soars. Talent gets old, rich, and bored. What is born, is Wet Hot American snore. The series.

]]> https://staging2.theplaylist.net/review-wet-hot-american-summer-first-day-of-camp-and-the-danger-of-nostalgia-driven-reboots-20150804/#comment-127411 Mon, 23 May 2016 02:44:33 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2015/more/uncategorized/review-wet-hot-american-summer-first-day-of-camp-and-the-danger-of-nostalgia-driven-reboots-261180/#comment-127411 I really don\’t agree that it "stretches itself too thin." In fact it seemed to me that they had so many characters and stories that they didn\’t focus on any of them long enough. But that\’s because it was always time to move onto the next gag or joke. It\’s a very tight 4 hours. Coop\’s summary of the events of the show in the last episode illustrate this hilariously.

]]> https://staging2.theplaylist.net/review-wet-hot-american-summer-first-day-of-camp-and-the-danger-of-nostalgia-driven-reboots-20150804/#comment-127412 Mon, 23 May 2016 02:44:33 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2015/more/uncategorized/review-wet-hot-american-summer-first-day-of-camp-and-the-danger-of-nostalgia-driven-reboots-261180/#comment-127412 Leave David alone. At least he\’s making friends. Would you prefer he was out killing neighbourhood cats again?

]]> https://staging2.theplaylist.net/review-wet-hot-american-summer-first-day-of-camp-and-the-danger-of-nostalgia-driven-reboots-20150804/#comment-127413 Mon, 23 May 2016 02:44:33 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2015/more/uncategorized/review-wet-hot-american-summer-first-day-of-camp-and-the-danger-of-nostalgia-driven-reboots-261180/#comment-127413 David, how many times have I told you not to get on the internet and make a fool of yourself?

]]> https://staging2.theplaylist.net/review-wet-hot-american-summer-first-day-of-camp-and-the-danger-of-nostalgia-driven-reboots-20150804/#comment-127414 Mon, 23 May 2016 02:44:33 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2015/more/uncategorized/review-wet-hot-american-summer-first-day-of-camp-and-the-danger-of-nostalgia-driven-reboots-261180/#comment-127414 If you don\’t like brilliance, go watch Orange Is the New something or other, or The unbreakable someone who\’s name I can\’t remember, or the American Office, or 30 Rock.

]]> https://staging2.theplaylist.net/review-wet-hot-american-summer-first-day-of-camp-and-the-danger-of-nostalgia-driven-reboots-20150804/#comment-127415 Mon, 23 May 2016 02:44:33 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2015/more/uncategorized/review-wet-hot-american-summer-first-day-of-camp-and-the-danger-of-nostalgia-driven-reboots-261180/#comment-127415 You complain that Wet Hot didn\’t experiment enough, but then say it\’s leaps and bounds better than Arrested Development season 4, which was wildly experimental. You can\’t have it both ways. I think the new Wet Hot is hilarious and doesn\’t rely on nostalgia too much. I also loved AD season 4 for its insane attempt at something nobody had ever done before. It\’s not as funny as the first three seasons, but the structure of it was unlike anything I\’ve ever seen. They had 15 episodes that were basically all happening simultaneously. It was messy and didn\’t always work, but that\’s better than just trying to recreate the same old show again 8 years later.

]]> https://staging2.theplaylist.net/review-wet-hot-american-summer-first-day-of-camp-and-the-danger-of-nostalgia-driven-reboots-20150804/#comment-127416 Mon, 23 May 2016 02:44:33 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2015/more/uncategorized/review-wet-hot-american-summer-first-day-of-camp-and-the-danger-of-nostalgia-driven-reboots-261180/#comment-127416 Whenever I read some variation of "This review is turning out more negative than I expected," I wonder if the reviewer realized why that is. Maybe you actually didn\’t like it.

]]> https://staging2.theplaylist.net/review-wet-hot-american-summer-first-day-of-camp-and-the-danger-of-nostalgia-driven-reboots-20150804/#comment-149651 Mon, 23 May 2016 02:44:33 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2015/more/uncategorized/review-wet-hot-american-summer-first-day-of-camp-and-the-danger-of-nostalgia-driven-reboots-261180/#comment-149651 Leave David alone. At least he’s making friends. Would you prefer he was out killing neighbourhood cats again?

]]> https://staging2.theplaylist.net/review-wet-hot-american-summer-first-day-of-camp-and-the-danger-of-nostalgia-driven-reboots-20150804/#comment-149652 Mon, 23 May 2016 02:44:33 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2015/more/uncategorized/review-wet-hot-american-summer-first-day-of-camp-and-the-danger-of-nostalgia-driven-reboots-261180/#comment-149652 David, how many times have I told you not to get on the internet and make a fool of yourself?

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