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The Joke Has Died With <em>Wet Hot American Summer: Ten Years Later</em>

The latest Netflix spin-off of the 2001 cult-comedy classic brings back the old gang but has nothing new to do with them.
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Part of the pleasure of watching , the 2015 prequel series to David Wain’s cult comedy film, was the sheer absurdity of its existence. A parody of the endless march of revivals and off-brand sequels thrown at audiences, the show took the cast of comic actors who played a bunch of teenagers in 2001 (when they were already too old for the part), brought them all back 14 years later, and had them play even versions of themselves. The audacity of was more than enough to make

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