Series · Netflix · 2015
Bunk'd
Noise at a lake. Authority is the punchline. Not the one to choose.
A camp is one of the last places a child practices being useful away from home: a fire, a younger camper, a rule that keeps people off the rocks. Bunk'd knows the setting and spends it on pranks and counselors who cannot be trusted with a canoe. It is mild. Mild is not the same as good.
If the children want camp, read them a chapter or tell them about a real one. This does not have to be the picture.
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Industry
3/10
Camp is a job for the counselors. The show thinks the job is a costume.
Household
3/10
Parents are offscreen. The cabin is a sleepover that never ends.
Piety
2/10
Nothing is treated as worth keeping still for.
Courage
3/10
Pranks stand in for nerve.
Republic
3/10
A camp could be a small commons. This one is a set.
Temperance
4/10
Mean is usually corrected by the tag. The middle of the episode enjoyed it.
Truth
3/10
The lesson is announced. The prank was the point.
Stewardship
3/10
Nothing is handed on except a catchphrase.
Live historicallyTell a child one true camp rule and why it exists. A rule with a reason is an education.