[Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for Overcompensating Season 1.]
Overcompensating’s first season goes out with a jaw-dropping bang. A chaotic faculty get together at Yates College turns into an emotional battleground for Benny (Benito Skinner) and his greatest buddy, Carmen (Wally Baram).
Benny spends Season 1, out now, navigating his queerness and determining methods to come out after portraying a straight façade to his family and friends. His popping out journey is derailed when he stumbles upon Carmen kissing his crush, Miles (Rish Shah), on the get together. Carmen rushes after a heartbroken Benny and unintentionally outs him in entrance of his sister (Mary Beth Barone) and his crush. Benito Skinner and Wally Baram spoke with TV Insider about that surprising Season 1 ending and what it means for Benny and Carmen’s friendship.
“I feel my factor is that it’s nonetheless a university present, and I feel I used to be like, this feels actual and messy and sincere and, additionally, I need you to be again subsequent season,” Skinner mentioned. “I feel while you’re popping out, it’s this push and pull and secrets and techniques and dishonesty and hiding, and [it] simply felt like we sort of needed to finish it that approach, partially impressed by my very own experiences of popping out and a few individuals realizing and a few individuals not.”
Skinner, who created the present, felt it was essential to “take the rug out from below a few of these characters, and I feel the Benny-Carmen relationship felt so stable proper earlier than then. I feel there’s going to be some lovely therapeutic sooner or later if we’re allowed to do it and much more issues.”
Baram acknowledged how a lot of a “intestine punch” that cliffhanger was for Benny and Carmen followers. Nonetheless, she admitted that the scene is a “actually nice projection of what occurs in faculty” and life basically “while you interact with a model of your self that’s dishonest, and also you’re not validating your self, and also you’re making choices from a spot of actually low vanity. Issues get messy.”
Overcompensating hasn’t been renewed for Season 2 but, however Benny and his buddies have loads of semesters to go. After a plethora of Season 1 visitor stars — together with James Van Der Beek, Megan Fox, and Bowen Yang — Skinner and Baram are already manifesting their subsequent dream visitor star: the one and solely Pedro Pascal.
Baram pitched the concept of Mr. Pascal taking part in Carmen’s father. TV Insider threw out the concept of The Final of Us star taking part in an attractive professor. Perhaps he may very well be Carmen’s father and a professor. Something can occur on the earth of Overcompensating.
Watch the total video above to see Skinner and Baram break down the Halloween episode, the Peter scenario, and extra.
Overcompensating, Season 1, Streaming Now, Prime Video