Get the latest gossip
Benito Skinner’s ‘Overcompensating’ Is a College Coming Out Story That Plays It Entirely Too Straight: TV Review
The Amazon Prime Video comedy from social media star Benito Skinner is a college coming out story that plays it entirely too straight.
Benny remains so deeply repressed he doesn’t even seize on the blank slate afforded by college, enrolling in business classes and rushing a frat-like secret society until his budding friendship with fellow freshman Carmen (Wally Baram) starts to pull him out of his shell. Carmen is still mourning the loss of her older brother a few years prior; Benny’s sister Grace (Skinner’s IRL podcasting partner Mary Beth Barone) has changed her entire personality her boyfriend Peter’s (Adam DiMarco of “The White Lotus”), a douchey aspiring finance bro. This approach is most frequently deployed when mocking the aggressive machismo of Peter and his friends, who punctuate the classic hazing ritual of slapping asses with a paddle by screaming “NO HOMO” and brag about their sexual contests until the conversation devolves into an ape-like chorus of hooting and chest-pounding.
Or read this on Variety