Benito Skinner’s sexy university comedy “Overcominensing” ends with a heartbreaking cliffhanger – the creator, a writer, executive producer and star said that he had always known the end of the first season of his first conversations with the producer partner Scott King.
“Overcompensating”, Skinner’s first foray into long comedy, is semi-autobiographical. He plays like a football star at the Lycée closed Benny of Idaho, who must face his sexuality in a way that he had never had before when he goes to the university.
After a season of unsuccessful attempts, missteps with friends and countless discoveries, Benny finds himself betrayed by the person in whom he has the most confidence. After a heart to heart with his first academic kiss, the best friend Carmen (Wally Baram), he finds her embracing her campus crush Miles (Rush Shah). A few moments later, Carmen accidentally led him to the party, while her sister and her crush are within voice.
Skinner said this sequence of unhappy events was vaguely based on his own university experience and said he and King had designed the final and made their way from there.
“We had this last moment, then we found the last round trips between Benny and Carmen, and it was like good, find it between the two,” Skinner told Thewrap.
The creator and Star said that one of the most difficult parts in the writers’ room was to force the characters he fell in love to continue to make mistakes.
“It was sometimes difficult, because in the room – I am delighted that people felt this way – but we would begin to really like some of the characters, but we must then have them do horrible things because we are at university,” said Skinner. “They are drunk, they are not very sure, they want to be loved.”
Whether it’s Adam Dimarco’s Peter who puts his secret society to the explosion of the whole school or Carmen by kissing the crush of his best friend or Benny abandoning Carmen for flesh and gold, each of the main characters spoils his closest relationships by observing themselves and their own self-image.
“The university is a bit selfish, and it is self-preservation,” he said. “They are not only going to stop overcompensify. I think people do all their lives. ”
Season 1 ended on a cliffhanger, cutting only a few seconds after Carmen overturns Benny’s great secret, but Skinner says he has big projects for season 2 – he just needs green light.
“I cannot believe that this is my first experience because I am addicted now, and we have to do season 2,” Skinner told Thewrap. “Can you send an SMS to Amazon now?”
Skinner distribution members agree. Baram and Mary Beth Barone, who embodies Benny’s sister, Grace, both worked in the writers room for the Amazon series before signing as regulars in the series. The two women told Thewrap this season 2, if it is renewed, will allow characters to find new ways to overcompensate.
“If Benny lives like a gay man in season two, what does the overcompensation look like for this person like? And if Grace is more in the counter-culture, what does it look like for her to be overcompensive? Barone said in Thewrap.” And then I think we could see them back in their old manners. “
Dimarco, who plays the toxic boyfriend of Grace, Peter and Leader of Flesh & Gold, told Thewrap that “overcomensing” needs a season 2 because he knows what is Skinner’s English Channel.
“This is a difficult question to answer because I know exactly what Benny has planned if there is a season 2 for most characters,” the star of “The White Lotus” told Thewrap. “Everything Benny has planned is simply crazy and hilarious, and you wouldn’t see him coming.”
For Peter, Dimarco said that he would grow up and change “disarticulated way”. Baram hopes that Benny and Carmen will be able to repair their relationship after his big shift in the final episode.
“Her exceeding of intimacy is an example of the artifice, in the end, because she wants to feel very good,” she told Thewrap. “I really hope for Benny and Carmen’s relationship that they are able to repair this because I think it’s really the heart and soul of the series.”
The eight episodes of “over -compulsory” are available to broadcast on Prime Video.
