J J Wtf are you guys talking about. Great cast? They look middle aged, past their prime. Its an effort to watch this crap. I'm not even sure i can type an entire 5 lines cuz i feel like I'm wasting my time and this is the first episode and I'm only half way thru it. Wow its getting worse, ronald reagan? Yup complete trash, the second episode ismaking little sense, and suffers fromgrade school writing, the directing seems alright though. All done 5 lines.

klasikvhs I love absurd comedies like Strangers With Candy & Children's Hospital. Wet Hot American Summer is god-awful. There a few good moments but I could only force myself to watch the first 5 and the final episode. I'm surprised I could sit through that many. I just kept wanting it to be good! My husband was very disgruntled whenever I would turn it on. The cast is mostly really good. Best: John Hamm & Chris Meloni. Worst: Janeane Garofalo, whom i used to enjoy. WTF happened to her talent??? If you like absurd comedies PLEASE watch the 2 aforementioned shows. Amy Sedaris & Stephen Colbert are wonderful in Strangers. Children's Hospital is still going strong.

LemonLadyR Another Netflix miss, and they are batting pretty low, except for Sense8, which won't fly for the audiences who like the others. Another reviewer asked people to compare Netflix series to shows like Breaking Bad, Mad Men, (the BBC original) House of Cards, and the other really amazing and groundbreaking series out there. This is the old if it worked once, it should work again, right? Even though the movie this is based on didn't work at the time, but now has a cult following (of whom? Oh, the Dumber and Dumber crowd!). It is odd that it didn't work, as those were the days of the aforementioned Dumber and Dumber and such fare, but even those were better, even with sex and sex organs as the main plot lines. This prequel to the movie (Prequel??? But the actors are the same as the 2001 movie, so older, making no sense, even for a cartoon, which, at its core, it is) misses on all counts...not funny in any way, not an escape, childish (but not funny). Bugs Bunny was funnier. It is an embarrassment and so over the top that it flops on the other side. Maybe if it were billed as sci-fi...as this is surely such a bad (and badly acted) alternative reality that it could not possibly be considered based on reality as we know it. Just horrid, I barely got through one episode, then went looking for the Mad Men stars, so scanned further along, but even they couldn't rise above the writing and seeing such fine actors make utter fools of themselves was no fun, either. I admit i don't like many series and not stupid comedy (but the ratings were good, so I gave it a shot and the Mad Men connection reeled me in), but if something is done well, I'm all in. Well, I'm all out on this one and it was no summer escape for me. I can't think of one thing in this series that was even OK, except maybe the DP knew how to point and shoot a camera. Even the music and clothes were misrepresented for the period. It would have worked better with a mid-70's period and a few leisure suits, which were as ridiculous as this is.

supercoupe1234 Yet another "wet blanket" to add to the list of financially and internally motivated uprated shows/movies from Netflix Originals. I read that Netflix does not look at the ratings of their shows to avoid the messy mid-first season cancellations that other networks like NBC face and not to affect the shows "integrity". This however is a double edged sword as Wet Hot American Summer can attest to. This show along side of other "financially motivated" over rated "WET BLANKETS" of Netflix Originals, such as "Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt", "Sense8" and even... yes... dodge incoming flak..."House of Cards" and "Orange is the New Black" are well in over rated territory. Do all of us a favour, if you ever find yourself caught up in the nonsense of "what's in" and what is currently being talked about at your local water cooler... which in turn may cause breakouts of overratedness and loss of common sense... do what everyone should do... a palate cleanser. Just look at Breaking Bad and its rating of 9.5. Do you really think that shows such as Wet Hot.., Unbreakable Kimmy.., etc, etc... really only deserve to be separated by 1 to a 1.5 star rating?