Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp (Season 1)

Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp (2015) is a Netflix comedy series you can stream online on iFILM. Director David Wain reunited the entire original cast for a prequel to the 2001 cult film — same Camp Firewood, same summer of 1981, just a few hours earlier in the day.

Paul Rudd, Bradley Cooper, Amy Poehler, Molly Shannon, Janeane Garofalo all came back. Chris Pine and Jason Schwartzman joined them. The comedy operates exactly as before: weaponized absurdity, relentless parody of the very genre it lives in, and an enthusiastic indifference to internal logic. The joke that actors visibly older than their characters are playing teenagers is not a bug — it's the engine.

Works best as a companion to the original rather than a standalone. Watch all episodes of Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp online on iFILM.