'Camping' episode 1 review: Jennifer Garner's Kathryn is obsessive, compulsive and not easily relatable
HBO has released the first episode of Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner's new comedy 'Camping', and although the chemistry between the two leading stars, Jennifer Garner and David Tennant, is somewhat faltering yet the show brings out certain traits that are solely exclusive to the genre of comedy. Garner plays the obsessively compulsive, uptight Kathryn who is busy arranging a weekend camping trip with three other couples for her husband, Walt's (played by Tennant) 45th birthday.
However, as every Dunham story goes, Kathryn is barely aware of the heap of mismanaged incidents that are going to interfere with her otherwise organized camping trip at Brown Bear Lake campsite. The pilot episode did the job of introducing the members on the campsite, including the lesbian couple who look after the area, and Kathryn is just thrust in the middle of all of it. From welcoming people whom she did not want to be present at the campsite, to handling a gun so that her son would not go near it, things have been falling apart for Kathryn since the very beginning.
