It’s a highly enjoyable romance from front to back that’ll leave you wishing, hoping, and anticipating which couple you’ll spend the sophomore season with. Until then, this series will get plenty of replays.

It is high-class, lovable nonsense, and I love it.

Even with their clothes on, the charismatic characters are fun to be in the company of, with their day-to-day lives serving a balance of drama, comedy, romance and raunch that's eminently bingeable.

Detractors might call the show cheesy or a guilty pleasure, but for lovers of romance, there's nothing guilty about it, and by the end of the finale, you'll be clamoring to return to Briar U as soon as possible.

Encompassing all of the tropes of an opposites-attract love story, “Off Campus” isn’t reinventing the wheel, but it’s still an interesting ride.

It's a little corny; the dialogue can be cheesy, it's at times overly reliant on romance micro tropes, and it never really manages to create a distinctive atmosphere. Still, though, as far as book adaptations go, this one was clearly made with genuine love and care, and in the end, that's all anyone who enjoys reading and watching romance can really ask for.

It all feels so algorithm-driven that much of Off Campus plays like those “spicy” vertical dramas currently interrupting Instagram Reels and TikTok binges with soul-crushing short-form romance. That’s a byproduct of the show’s lifeless direction—even the on-the-ice action is surprisingly lethargic—and astonishingly bad acting.