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- Prime Video
- May 15, 2025
- Prime Video
- May 15, 2025
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
- Prime Video
- May 15, 2025
- Prime Video
- May 15, 2025
Overcompensating
Season 1
Season Premiere:May 15, 2025
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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
Where to Watch
Coming Soon
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ExpressVPN
Get 3 Extra months free
$6.67/mth
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Metascore
Generally FavorableBased on 21 Critic Reviews
72
76% Positive
16 Reviews
16 Reviews
24% Mixed
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
0% Negative
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May 15, 2025
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
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.
May 15, 2025
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
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
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
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
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.
By Henry ChandonnetFULL REVIEW
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Generally FavorableBased on 7 User Ratings
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User Score
Generally FavorableBased on 7 User Ratings
6.6
57% Positive
4 Ratings
4 Ratings
29% Mixed
2 Ratings
2 Ratings
14% Negative
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1 Rating
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