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Post by Dame Bouncy Castle on Jan 14, 2019 20:15:32 GMT
HBO’s comedy series Camping will receive its UK premiere on Sky Atlantic on Thursday January 31st at 10pm with a double-bill.
Camping follows a group of old friends as they arrive at the underwhelming Brown Bear Lake campsite to celebrate a landmark birthday, sparking heightened emotions, latent tensions (sexual and otherwise) and memories they’d rather forget.
The comedy series, which is an adaptation of Julia Davis’ Sky Atlantic comedy of the same name, stars Jennifer Garner (Love, Simon), David Tennant (Doctor Who), Juliette Lewis (Cape Fear), Arturo Del Puerto (Independence Day: Resurgence), Ione Skye (Fever Pitch), Janicza Bravo (Love) and Brett Gelman (Stranger Things).
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Post by geometryman on Jan 16, 2019 7:01:47 GMT
I remember the Julia Davis original, which was typically extreme. The cast makes this look like a remake that might be worth watching.
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Post by profbooboo on Jan 16, 2019 16:26:21 GMT
The US version has a good cast, but I think the UK version is much better. Steve Pemberton and Vicki Pepperdine's characters are so much more heartbreaking and bleak than David Tennant and Jennifer Garner's. And Rufus Jones is in the UK version and he's pretty good in most things. I think it just feels like a UK show, it has the eccentricities of the UK but it feels quite natural even though it's strange and absurd. The US version feels like it's trying to be strange and quirky. I know they're both done by Julia Davis, but they just feel different...maybe its the accents!
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Post by geometryman on Feb 5, 2019 23:19:39 GMT
You're right, it's nowhere near as good as the original version. Also it seems to contain a lot of references which are no doubt very familiar to US audiences but which went completely over my head. Watched episode 1 and I'm going no further.
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