Overcompensating

About Overcompensating

Closeted former football player and homecoming king Benny becomes fast friends with Carmen, a high school outsider on a mission to fit in at all costs. With guidance from Benny's older sister and her campus-legend boyfriend, Benny and Carmen juggle horrible hookups, flavored vodka, and fake IDs.

Prime Video's Overcompensating is a comedy series. Since May 2025 it has reached one season of 8 episodes.

Its themes are college, misunderstanding, self-discovery, and closeted homosexual. Benito Skinner appears as Benny Scanlon, Wally Baram as Carmen Neil, Mary Beth Barone as Grace Scanlon, and Adam DiMarco as Peter Whitney.

Produced by Strong Baby Productions. In the United States it streams on Amazon Prime Video and Amazon Prime Video with Ads.

Heated Rivalry, The Sex Lives of College Girls, and Angels in America make useful companions to Overcompensating, all filed under gay theme. TMDB voters put it at 7.2 out of 10 across 125 votes and it carries a TV-MA rating.