“Overcompensation,” the series that explores coming out at college with humor and empathy
Released on Prime Video on May 15, “Overcompensation” satirizes heteronormativity in American universities. Actor and writer Benito Skinner draws on his struggles with coming out in a sex-obsessed world to create a series that shines with absurd humor.
Benito Skinner, who rose to fame with comedic videos on TikTok, draws inspiration from his own journey in Overcompensation. In this series, released May 15 on Prime Video, he recounts his life as a young, closeted gay student struggling with intense social pressure. The New Yorker applauds : the American screenwriter and actor “crafts a very subtle and bitter satire of how the expression of masculinity is constantly controlled by other men.”
We feel that Skinner “has a lot to say about forced heteronormativity,” the site adds. AV Club , according to whom the series “translates the chaos and unease of the first university years”.
“The sex is sweaty, the abs are bulging, the romances are juicy, and the humor is scathing. But there's also a lot of empathy and pain behind the thousand and one jokes and exposed dicks.”
Benito Skinner, aka Benny Drama on social media, plays Benny, an American football champion with almost unreal muscles and equally perfect grades, who enters university where he tries to conform to the pres
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