EW's GRADE
C
Details
Network: ABC
It's the season's most uselessly
complicated premise: The parents of 28-year-old Ricky Wilder (Baby
Talk's Mary Page Keller) have died recently in an accident. Ricky, a
newly divorced mother of a 6-year-old (Tina Majorino), moves back
into her folks' home to care for her teenage siblings, played by
Jerry O'Connell and Meghann Haldeman. The Wilder house then gets the
nickname Camp Wilder because it becomes a hangout for all the kids in
the neighborhood.
Camp Wilder is a standard-issue wisecracking-bodacious-adolescents
sitcom overseen by executive producer Matthew Carlson (The Wonder
Years). Keller and O'Connell are likable actors, but the only person
I enjoy in this show is one of the neighborhood teens, a sly dufus
named Dorfman (Jay Mohr). The only reason I like him is because in
the series premiere he used the terms internal rhyme and analogycorrectly in different sentences. These days, you take your
educational TV where you can find it. C
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