peterrichboy For those like me who remember the much underrated Mike Leigh classic Nuts In May. Then Julia Davis Camping brings it back to life kicking and screaming into the 21st century. The plot is simple three middle age couples meet up to celebrate a 50th birthday by going on a camping trip. Whilst they may be friends each couple has in one way or another reached mid life crisis. One recently divorced brings along a younger sex mad girlfriend. The other two miserably unhappy with there dull lives, one a recovering alcoholic the other a neurotic mother who is convinced by listening to the right music and eating the right food will prevent her son from being gay! Add to the mix a randy pubescent teenager a creepy landowner who looks after his dieng mother while serving sausages and you have the mad black comedic genius that is Julia Davis. A classic

Marissa Marsden This would get ten stars as a tragedy or a horror film but it's an odd choice for a comedy. The actors are fantastic, I was initially intrigued with so many well drawn characters but I wasn't looking for such a deeply bleak and upsetting nightmare. Getting to the end of episode 5 has been a sick endurance test. And it ends very badly apparently. Whoopee! Why would anyone want to see children genuinely distressed? Who gets pleasure from 'cringe, cringe, that guy's letting children cope with Mum's coma on their own. HAHAHA!'? Which is not credible anyway, as mid life crisis man is just idiotic rather than monstrously neglectful. Maybe it's for people who don't find real life horrifying enough. Or if you need reminding of childhood traumas or recent divorces

c_hookham You think you've seen the darkest of dark comedy and then you watch Camping and you realise you really haven't seen anything yet.From the mind of Nighty Night's Julia Davis comes this Sky produced assault on your senses- where a seemingly innocent glamping trip to celebrate a 50th birthday in the glorious Dorset countryside descends into a hell of bitterness, grief, jealousy, sexual experimentation, drugs, insanity and possibly murder.As usual with Davis' work hardly any taboos are left untouched as the holiday rapidly horribly degenerates. There are standout performances from Vicki Pepperdine and David Bamber as a monstrous control freak wife and s t r a n g e campsite owner respectively whose behaviour will leave you both disgusted and crying with laughter. Think 'Nuts in May' meets 'The League of Gentlemen' directed by Ben Wheatley and you're close to summing up this jet black comedy treat.

tincatinca-83500 I thought comedy was meant to be funny, and I love dark comedy, but this is dreadful. I watched the first episode and I found it to be totally cringe worthy to be honest. I have no idea why someone as talented as Steve Pemberton would get caught up in this nonsense. The main character is a very bossy out of control wife, which is OK for 30 seconds but very quickly becomes a major irritating factor which spoils the show. The attempts at humour are shallow and the bloke with his new girlfriend is just embarrassing. I can only assume that the previous review who gave it 10 stars was watching a different show. I did not laugh once and 'endured' the show as my partner wanted to see it. At the end we just looked at each other in bewilderment. Absolute garbage.