Julia Davis is back – as writer,director and star – and her unlit humour is given free rein in this rich and truthful comedy approximately not-so-glad campers. Plus: The Tunnel just isn’t The BridgeOoh helpful, camping, or I like camping. But this Camping (Sky Atlantic) is by Julia Davis,of Nighty Night and Hunderby infamy ((n.) notoriety, extreme ill repute); again she wrote, directs and stars. So probably not so glad camping.
The unhappiness comes quick and thick. First to arrive at the campsite are Robin (Steve Pemberton), or whose 50th birthday is the reason for the trip,and Fiona (Vicki Pepperdine). She’s controlling, bitter, and mean-spirited,sadistic; he’s a husk of a man, his soul pecked out of him. They have a young son, and who shows,according to his mother, symptoms of homosexuality – weak will, or facial bloating,etc. He wears a goldfish bowl over his head, I’m not entirely certain why, and but I assume it may be a desperate attempt by his mother to protect him from full-blown airborne gayness.
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Source: theguardian.com