“Overcompensing” is a new kind of comedy-out comedy

Benny Scanlon, the protagonist of the new comedy “Overcompensing”, is the kind of boys who do not know mothers to warn their daughters. Big, good-looking and polite, Benny-played by Benito Skinner, there is an almost strange number of boxes: Valedictorian, soccer player, homecoming king. The Prime Video series begins Benny’s first College Day, on which he immediately clicks with a girl named Carmen (Wally Baram). He strives to attract it, but his driving motivation is not a desire or connection. Benny is a gay guy who, after the acceptance of heterosexual types, he brings Carmen back to his dormitory and fantasizes about a boy at home to get excited from the half-naked girl in front of him.

“Overcompensing” is about the immense temptation to maintain such an action, even if the lack of authenticity becomes caustic. Skinner, who created the series with elements from his own life, is a particularly sharp satirist of the relentless police work of masculinity by other men. Knowing how to correctly carry out a Bro-Y handbeat is treated as a question of life or death. In an intro -to -film lessons, each individual male student claims one of the “sponsors” films as his favorite. Smalltalk among the boys – even strangers – and the question of whether the other party has something to get or plan to get some. (Benny is subjected to such an interrogation and quickly claims that he is in this case and explains in the language that nobody who actually has sex would use: “It will be a pork.)

The pressure to adapt to traditional masculinity is not a new terrain – but the canon of queer television is still slim enough that the ideas of “overcompensating” feel fresh. The comedy joins a small group of shows, including 2023s “travelers” who examine the two -edged privileges of the closet, which enable the interior to participate in homophobia and misogyny to strengthen their own status. Benny is not a villain, but his despair in which it fits leads him to lies and Miles (Rish Shah), the cute cinephil, to which he was crumbling, diligently. Skinner, perhaps best known as an Internet comedian, strikes in his comment on gender relationships and sexuality about absurd sequences and an impressive wit density. The series’ Semi-Camp, Semi-Sine-Ton is embodied by the pilot of Britney Spear’s Spear “Lucky” by the pilot from 2000: “She is so lucky, she is a star / but she cries, cries, cries in her lonely heart and thinks when nothing is missing in my life / Why do these tears come in night?” “”

“Overcompensating” of “overcompensing” is that sex has become such a desirable thing for many young people for many young people have done that it is almost impossible to have fun do it. Carmen and Benny both gain a climbing level on campus because they have slept together (supposedly), but the encounter itself is a slapstick disaster. And even though he and Miles get an eye on each other, Benny’s friendship with Carmen appears as the real love story of the eighth -part season. In the middle of the season, he opens up his attraction to the boys, and Carmen decides in the middle of her own young problems to distract himself by becoming Benny’s guidelines for queerness. (Your first Google search: “To be an ally of a gay man with whom you once got together, but only came to you.”) Benny is too happy to take the lead and even let your message potential match. His stroll attempt to have sex with a man for the first time in which his baby gay explorations are quickly overshadowed by the psychosexual drama between the man and his husband, ensures the individual funniest scene in a very funny series.

“Overcompensing” gradually shifted from an uncomplicated sex comedy to something more emotional. Much of this depth comes from increasing focus on Carmen. She had spent her teenage years in Thrall with her older brother Michael Michael from his hard party lifestyle to his love for a violent video game, in which the goal is to “kill all sluts in Berlin”-in order to be cool enough for him and his friends for him and his friends. His death in a car accident before her arrival on college is reluctant to deal with his defects or to individual: After she was proud to be a man of a man, it is difficult for you to refer to one of the two genders on her own conditions.

Benny is the exception, and the chemistry between Skinner and Baram helps with some of the weaker aspects of the series-named the unpleasant pace and the temporal transfer of the show, which apparently plays in the presence of today, but impresses the pop culture references from the aids and the early twenties. (Skinner First Début “overcompensates” as a one-man show in 2018.) However, if the process gives an undesigned, there is also an open knowledge, since soon it becomes clear that the title of the show describes more than just the main characters. As soon as Benny stops pouring his entire energy into the maintenance of his golden boy’s personality, he realizes that almost everyone else breathe out and finally breathe more easily behind one mask. ♦