Revue overcomensive – an exquisite frat orgy of the shirt, chest chest … and love -self -esteem | Television
IIn the pandemic, Benito Skinner has become a famous internet for his extinct impressions camped by celebrities, stars of reality and types of: his list includes a Kris Jenner, Billie Eilish at the beach and a Timothy Gurgling Chalamet. At that time, the actor has downloaded videos for years. A 2019 clip entitled Live Fetging of Me in the Closet sees Skinner Peigr his fringe forward, put on an Abercrombie T-shirt and returns to the end of the years 00 to resuscitate his teenager, a boy refusing his love for Gossip Girl insisting several times that he is “not gay” glee: the music, volume 1.
Six years later, Skinner takes up the role. Overcompensary, a drama of first -rate video comedy in eight parts, begins with an just as unconvincing affirmation. “Hey, what’s up, everyone. I am Benny, I love the pussy,” said our hero to her reflection, an assertion undermined by Flashbacks of stealthy childhood of the Jungle of the Jungle, as well as more recent images of him stretching his beautiful ball date. The show continues to fictify the first year of Skinner at university, a time spent desperately trying to convince himself and the others that he was totally not gay.
However, there is a big difference between the work of Skinner’s social media and its first appropriate television project. Online, the 31-year-old is the only comic engine: Trussed-up, Gurning, a master of playful parody. Here, however, he plays it almost entirely straight – in both directions. Benny was a popular football player in high school, as well as the King and the Major of Returning home promotion, like his new best best, the Carmen unconventional cool (Wally Baram). He is healthy, absurdly beautiful and incredibly kind; An instant cardiac throb on the campus. His secret desires mean that he is also meticulously repressed: the only overview of the Farcap sequence which sent Skinner Viral occurs during a dormitory festival scene. Faced with a trio of guys singing to love a G6, a drunk benny decides to present his own rap talents with an energetic interpretation of Nicki Minaj’s super bass (overcompensor is not a piece of element – Instagram stories exist – but musical choices are very nostalgic).
Fortunately, there are others capable of taking the comic coat. The first is the roommate at the end of Carmen but strangely kind, a TMI that works that makes sexual acts between episodes of hysteria. It is performed perfectly by the actor who goes mononymously by Holmes (better known for playing the Daisy May Cooper character in the American adaptation of this country). Then there is Peter, the high -level boyfriend of Benny’s sister and student colleague Grace (Mary Beth Barone), who is determined to take “Bento” under his wing. Adam Dimarco of the White Lotus does an exceptional job to instill this odious grass alpha with humanity while tightening each drop of hilarity from its ridiculous vernacular of “Yee” and “No”. At one point, Peter and his friends become so high of their own virility that they explode in an orgy of roar, chest friction and shirt rescue – a pastiche of Masculinity Frat Bro which is quite exquisite.
The compensation is also an expert in an accessory joke: a sleeping roommate from Benny Naked sleeping deeply sleeping in his bed while pre-worship raging around him, the friend of Peter who announces that he needs toilets for a few seconds in any social meeting, the film of film where everyone loves the godfather. Less entertaining is the sub -intrigue involving a pre-Brat Charli XCX concert (Elle and Skinner are close friends; the music of the pop star also plays throughout).
However, despite such Japes, the dominant tone of the show ends up being sincere sincere. Benny’s personal growth attempts – abandoning Laddy’s social life of his youth, trying to get rid of the business diploma, his father (Kyle Maclachlan) pushed him in and meet new friends – are enriched with humor at cutting, but to his heart, it is a very serious show and, at points, Schmaltzily American Show on the fact of kissing your real car. The combination of struggles based on Benny’s sexuality and Carmen attempts to fight sorrow (his older brother died the previous year) means that the relationship of laughter with sentimental reflections sometimes feel out of control – but there is still a lot to appreciate. Do not come to overcompensate the Comedy of Wall Wall; It is a very charming spectacle with a very sensitive soul.
