Last week, Prime Video confirmed that the second season of its hit college-set romance, Off Campus, would debut on April 28, 2027. Based on the novels by Elle Kennedy and adapted for the screen by Louisa Levy, viewers were hooked on the blossoming relationship between Ella Bright‘s Hannah and Belmont Cameli‘s Garrett through every twist, turn, and magical moment.
Called “the perfect blend of sizzling romance and soapy drama” in Therese Lacson‘s review for Collider, this critical hit was also a smash success on streaming, earning 36 million worldwide viewers in its first 12 days of release and ranking as Prime Video’s third most-watched series launch of all time, behind the ambitious fantasy saga The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power and the massively popular sci-fi Western Fallout. Prime Video has been making quite the spectacle of teen-friendly stories of romance and angst over recent years, with another streaming hit finally revealing the date of its own second season.
Created by and starring Benito Skinner, and co-executive produced by the growing TV presence of Charli XCX, Overcompensatingis an honest, raucous queer comedy following a popular high school football player as he moves to college and comes to terms with his sexual identity. The series quickly became a streaming hit after debuting, even ranking as the most-watched show on the platform, and so earned a second season renewal in September last year. We now know that Overcompensating Season 2 will debut on February 17, 2027, on Prime Video.
Collider Exclusive · 8 Questions · 2 Minutes Which Netflix Character Would Be Your Best Friend? Dustin · Emily · Wednesday · Gi-hun
Some friends drag you out of the house. Some sit with you on the worst night of your life. Netflix has written both, plus the one who tells you the truth you have been avoiding all week. Answer eight quick questions about how you actually do friendship, and find out which of them was always going to end up in your corner.
🧢Dustin(Stranger Things)
🗼Emily(Emily in Paris)
🕷️Wednesday(Wednesday)
🟢Gi-hun(Squid Game)
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How do you usually end up making a new friend? The origin story says a lot about the friendship that follows it.
02
What is a perfect Saturday with your best friend? Friendship is mostly built out of very ordinary hours.
03
You call them at two in the morning. What happens? This is the real test of a friendship, and everybody knows it.
04
What do you want from them when you are clearly wrong? The best friendships are the ones that survive being corrected.
05
What do your friends actually value about you? The friend you attract says something about the friend you are.
06
You have a falling out. How does it go? How a friendship repairs itself matters more than how it breaks.
07
What do you actually need a best friend for? Everybody is missing something. The right friend fills that gap.
08
Ten years from now, what keeps the two of you close? Eight questions in, this is the one that decides who you get.
The Group Chat Has Spoken Your Best Friend Is…
Four Netflix characters, four completely different ways of showing up
for somebody. This is the one who fits how you actually do friendship, and what having them in your
life would be like.
Stranger Things · Netflix · Since 2016
Dustin Henderson
You do not do friendship at half volume, and neither does he.
What you want is somebody who says yes to the plan before you have finished describing the
plan.
Dustin is the friend the entire show runs on: loyal past the point of sense,
enthusiastic about everything, and incapable of leaving anybody behind.
You have the same instinct. Your friendships are loud, specific and slightly ridiculous,
and they last for decades because of it.
He is also the one person who would take your strangest interest completely seriously,
which is far rarer than it sounds.
You would have a group chat. It would never once be quiet.
Emily in Paris · Netflix · Since 2020
Emily Cooper
You are the friend who makes things happen, and so is she.
Together you would be mildly exhausting to everyone around you and completely delighted with
yourselves.
Emily treats an ordinary Tuesday as something that could be turned into an occasion,
which is either the best or the worst quality in a friend depending on your energy
levels.
You share her refusal to sit still. Neither of you has ever accepted a night in when
something was happening somewhere else.
She is far more loyal than people give her credit for. She defends her friends loudly,
publicly, and occasionally before checking the facts.
She would post the photo without asking. You would forgive her, because it is a very
good photo.
Wednesday · Netflix · Since 2022
Wednesday Addams
You have no patience for pleasant lies, and she has no ability to
tell them. What looks like coldness from the outside is the most reliable friendship on this
list.
Wednesday never says a kind thing she does not mean, which makes the rare ones count for
an enormous amount.
You would rather be told the truth than be made comfortable. She is constitutionally
incapable of offering you anything else.
Underneath all of it she is ferociously protective. She simply refuses to make a
performance out of caring.
Do not expect a birthday message. Do expect her to ruin anyone who wrongs you.
Squid Game · Netflix · 2021–2025
Seong Gi-hun
You look after whoever is having the worst day. So does he. It is
the least strategic way to move through the world and the best possible quality in a friend.
Gi-hun is not the strongest player in Squid Game, or the cleverest. He is the one who
keeps choosing to protect somebody else, over and over, at genuine cost to himself.
You have the same instinct. You notice who is struggling and you stay with them, long
after anybody would blame you for leaving.
He is a flawed friend, and that is part of why it lands. He lets people down, then comes
back and tries again, which is more than most manage.
He would give you his last chance and never once mention that he had done it.
What Is ‘Overcompensating’ Season 2 About?
After a first season packed with hilarity, revelations, and good-hearted chaos, it seems that Season 2 is going to a darker place. In a previous interview, Skinner revealed that he has “something sinister” planned for season 2, saying, “I do play two characters this season. Yeah, there’s something coming, something sinister.” What that sinister thing could be is anyone’s guess, but a synopsis for Season 2 reads:
“Season Two finds Benny and his friends in their second semester, juggling new lovers, cringey encounters, sexual awakenings, and riskiest of all: collegiate sports. Deeply funny and personal, the show explores the lengths to which we all overcompensate while on the path to finding out who we really are.”
Overcompensating Season 2 will debut on February 17, 2027, on Prime Video. Season 1 is now streaming. Stay tuned to Collider for more updates on all your favorite movies and shows.
