Overcompensating

Overcompensating

College. Come as you aren't.

Continuing First aired 15/May/2025 United States English 1 season(s) 8 episode(s)
Comedy
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.
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Season 1 · Season 1
8 episode(s) · Air date: 15/May/2025
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S1E8
Crown on the Ground
Air date: 15/May/2025 · Runtime: 37 min
Summary

It's finals week and relationships are put to the test (get it?). Carmen forces Benny to explain his web of lies, Grace makes a discovery, Peter goes to get what's his, Hailee wants to know where her performance enhancing meds are, and Miles wonders what he did wrong. Answers lead to more questions at the final Bader House party of the semester... your jaw is gonna be on the floor, sweetheart!

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It's finals week and relationships are put to the test (get it?). Carmen forces Benny to explain his web of lies, Grace makes a discovery, Peter goes to get what's his, Hailee wants to know where her performance enhancing meds are, and Miles wonders what he did wrong. Answers lead to more questions at the final Bader House party of the semester... your jaw is gonna be on the floor, sweetheart!

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S1E7
Welcome to the Black Parade
Air date: 15/May/2025 · Runtime: 38 min
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Carmen tags along with Benny and Grace for an Idaho Thanksgiving, complete with karaoke, a fist fight, and some ghosts from the past. We are nothing if not consistent! Benny regresses in front of his dad, while Carmen and Grace start to understand each other a bit more over some vodka crans and onion rings. But Carmen is still keeping her devastating secret...

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Carmen tags along with Benny and Grace for an Idaho Thanksgiving, complete with karaoke, a fist fight, and some ghosts from the past. We are nothing if not consistent! Benny regresses in front of his dad, while Carmen and Grace start to understand each other a bit more over some vodka crans and onion rings. But Carmen is still keeping her devastating secret...

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S1E6
The Edge of Glory
Air date: 15/May/2025 · Runtime: 37 min
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Carmen expertly avoids confronting her disastrous love life while trying to help Benny with his. Grace confides in Janet who pushes her to explore other romantic endeavors. Peter does something drastic that's gonna make you go "oh my god dude" at the end. Oh, and Hailee has mono!

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Carmen expertly avoids confronting her disastrous love life while trying to help Benny with his. Grace confides in Janet who pushes her to explore other romantic endeavors. Peter does something drastic that's gonna make you go "oh my god dude" at the end. Oh, and Hailee has mono!

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S1E5
Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites
Air date: 15/May/2025 · Runtime: 34 min
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It's Halloweekend and Benny is still on the outs with Carmen so he and Miles have been getting… closer. Carmen and Hailee reconcile just as the latter enters her bad girl era. Grace calls Peter out for treating her like an assistant. Tensions (sexual and otherwise) rise at the annual Chem Party. But who will go home with who (or is it whom)? This episode is so good.

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It's Halloweekend and Benny is still on the outs with Carmen so he and Miles have been getting… closer. Carmen and Hailee reconcile just as the latter enters her bad girl era. Grace calls Peter out for treating her like an assistant. Tensions (sexual and otherwise) rise at the annual Chem Party. But who will go home with who (or is it whom)? This episode is so good.

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S1E4
Boom Clap
Air date: 15/May/2025 · Runtime: 38 min
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Benny gets caught in a lie so our main besties are in a fight. That won't stop Carmen from basking in her new legend status from the tailgate. While Grace works the Charli xcx concert, Peter hazes the F&G male pledges. Meanwhile, Carmen is psychologically tortured alongside the female pledges. :/ Oh! And the episode ends with "party 4 u"!

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Benny gets caught in a lie so our main besties are in a fight. That won't stop Carmen from basking in her new legend status from the tailgate. While Grace works the Charli xcx concert, Peter hazes the F&G male pledges. Meanwhile, Carmen is psychologically tortured alongside the female pledges. :/ Oh! And the episode ends with "party 4 u"!

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S1E3
Black and Yellow
Air date: 15/May/2025 · Runtime: 33 min
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Benny gets noticed by a secret society and will stop at nothing to get his bestie / security blanket, Carmen, the same attention. Lucky for them, it's alumni tailgate weekend so she gets to show off her legendary drinking prowess. Peter gets some sobering news from a coked out "brother" and Grace reconnects with Mimi, who is back from her semester abroad. What sport is this tailgate for again?

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Benny gets noticed by a secret society and will stop at nothing to get his bestie / security blanket, Carmen, the same attention. Lucky for them, it's alumni tailgate weekend so she gets to show off her legendary drinking prowess. Peter gets some sobering news from a coked out "brother" and Grace reconnects with Mimi, who is back from her semester abroad. What sport is this tailgate for again?

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S1E2
Who's That Girl
Air date: 15/May/2025 · Runtime: 35 min
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Benny and Carmen scour the campus for fake IDs so they can join the rest of the freshmen class–including certified HOTTIE Miles–at Rock Bar. Peter comes through for Benny but not even Carmen's party girl roommate, Hailee, can help her out. Peter flakes on date night at the local Italian restaurant and Grace befriends an elderly woman (for her volunteer hours, duh!). Hailee throws up.

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Benny and Carmen scour the campus for fake IDs so they can join the rest of the freshmen class–including certified HOTTIE Miles–at Rock Bar. Peter comes through for Benny but not even Carmen's party girl roommate, Hailee, can help her out. Peter flakes on date night at the local Italian restaurant and Grace befriends an elderly woman (for her volunteer hours, duh!). Hailee throws up.

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S1E1
Lucky
Air date: 15/May/2025 · Runtime: 38 min
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Benny Scanlon arrives at Yates and makes fast friends with Carmen at Orientation. Will Benny and Carmen be more than friends? Or will the fact that he’s totally… you know… get in the way? His sister Grace hooks him up with unflavored vodka for his pregame, while her boyfriend, Peter, imparts sage senior bro wisdom: get laid day one or suffer the consequences. The stakes couldn't be higher tbh.

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Benny Scanlon arrives at Yates and makes fast friends with Carmen at Orientation. Will Benny and Carmen be more than friends? Or will the fact that he’s totally… you know… get in the way? His sister Grace hooks him up with unflavored vodka for his pregame, while her boyfriend, Peter, imparts sage senior bro wisdom: get laid day one or suffer the consequences. The stakes couldn't be higher tbh.

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Benito Skinner
Benito Skinner
Benny Scanlon
Wally Baram
Wally Baram
Carmen Neil
Mary Beth Barone
Mary Beth Barone
Grace Scanlon
Adam DiMarco
Adam DiMarco
Peter Whitney
Rish Shah
Rish Shah
Miles Hari
Charli xcx
Charli xcx
Charli xcx
Connie Britton
Connie Britton
Kathryn Scanlon
Lukas Gage
Lukas Gage
Sammy
Holmes
Holmes
Hailee Matthews
Owen Thiele
Owen Thiele
George
Corteon Moore
Corteon Moore
Gabe
Maddie Phillips
Maddie Phillips
Gigi
Tommy Do
Tommy Do
Kevin
Rachel Matthews
Rachel Matthews
Megan Fox
Megan Fox
Megan Fox Poster
Kyle MacLachlan
Kyle MacLachlan
John Scanlon
Didi Conn
Didi Conn
Janet
Julia Shiplett
Julia Shiplett
Mimi

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Sabrina Lantos
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Hanna Puley
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Charli xcx
Charli xcx
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Daniel Gray Longino
Daniel Gray Longino
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Desiree Akhavan
Desiree Akhavan
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Amelia Allwarden
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Colin Bright
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Jessica Kelly
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Lisa Parasyn
Lisa Parasyn
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Briar McQuilkin
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Halsted Sullivan
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Jay Young
Co-Executive Producer

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