SummaryCloseted football player Benny (Benito Skinner) and his new friend Carmen (Wally Baram) seek to fit in during their freshman year in college in the comedy series created and written by Skinner.
Created By:Benito Skinner
Overcompensating
Season 1 Premiere:
May 15, 2025
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Generally Favorable
72
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6.9
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May 15, 2025
95
Perhaps the funniest streaming comedy since “Hacks,” Amazon Prime Video’s “Overcompansating” presents as a wild, profanity-filled “Animal House”-style bacchanal. But at its heart, the eight-episode series is an endearing coming-of-age story centered on two good people trying to find themselves.
May 14, 2025
83
Over the course of eight episodes that go down like spiked punch, Overcompensating pulls out all the stops. The sex is sweaty, the abs are chiseled, the drama is dramatic, and the comedy is greased lightning. But there’s clearly a lot of heart—and pain—behind the mile-a-minute jokes and dangling dicks.
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Generally Favorable
65% Positive
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6 Ratings
May 25, 2025
10
I actually laughed out loud so many times. Very relatable ****/@jdcaramagna/overcompensating-is-the-funniest-show-i-ve-seen-in-a-long-time-007b3b2a34e2
May 18, 2025
10
Really enjoyed this show, probably because I could relate to a lot of the experiences that the main character(s) go through during their first year in college (uncannily so, in fact).
May 15, 2025
80
Like the good first-year comedies, it gets better as soon as it starts to relax and get to know the characters, as well as understanding the strengths of the actors playing them.
Aug 28, 2025
70
It would have been easy for Overcompensating to tread too closely to cringeworthy or tired territory, working too hard to appeal to its Gen Z audience, and failing to say anything meaningful. Fortunately, my biggest complaint about Overcompensating is that it was over too quickly.
May 14, 2025
70
It doesn’t do anything you haven’t seen in Heartstopper or Love, Victor or The Sex Lives of College Girls or Grown-ish or Gen V (or Greek or Undeclared or Dear White People), but it quickly takes its place among the solid entries in the familiar genre.
May 15, 2025
60
Overcompensating does a pretty good job of it, while also throwing in American Pie–level humor about drinking beer out of a giant penis for a frat initiation. Still, that’s where the vagueness about time becomes all the more frustrating: If a character’s experience in the closet is so defined by the culture he’s absorbing, then that experience will transform depending on the moment in which the character exists.
May 16, 2025
40
Age mismatches crush the heart of Overcompensating. The viewer cannot invest in Benny’s college realizations, primarily because he doesn’t look like he’s in college. Nor can they invest in the show’s side characters, simply because their ages are splattered across two decades, destroying any sense of realism. Sure, the jokes land. But the emotional resonance that Skinner clearly wants to strike has gone missing. Maybe some better casting would have helped.
May 25, 2025
7
Series writer/creator Benito Skinner also stars as a high school athlete who goes to extremes to hide his homosexuality when he starts college. Sure, this plot has been done to death, but what makes this series watchable is Skinner’s charm and the parade of other fun personalities. The comic standout is Holmes, who usually plays weird characters, but she’s glammed up for this role. As the parents, Connie Britton and Kyle MacLacllan get to flex their funny side. And yes, that really is Megan Fox playing herself on the poster. The humor ranges from clever to crude and it lands as often as not. The “will he or won’t he” debate also gets a bet repetitive. Even so, the collegiate energy, Skinner’s appeal and the range of enjoyable supporting characters combine to make for a sweet and genuinely amusing series. (Eight 30-minute eps)
Jun 15, 2025
0
More woke trash. Could not express my disgust at watching this one more episode. The show wreaks of leftist losers
May 15, 2025
0
Stop letting people who press record on their phone for a few seconds, have a whole ass show on Amazon. Just like his regurgitating musical flop he calls a mother, this monster has taken every reference from every good teen movie/show of the 80's & 90's, put it a nutri bullet, blended and tried to serve as his own fresh plate. Nope, not buying it and neither will an over served audience wise enough to know that the barrage of cameos is to make up for the writers inability to hold your attention longer that an IG reel. Even the name is a read... yes you are, overcompensating, yes you did overcompensate, for your inabilities... or inabennyties? Get thee back to Tarzana and into the obscurity from whence you came.
