7.9
Viewer Rating
Combines user and critic ratings from four sources
Overcompensating (2025)
Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Progressive
Viewer Rating
Rating: 7.9
Overview
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.
Starring Cast
Where to watch
Prime VideoBias Dimensions
Political: Strong Left
Diversity: High
LGBTQ: Positive
Trans: Positive
Overview
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.
Starring Cast
Where to watch
Prime VideoDetailed Bias Analysis
Analyzing...
Progressive
Primary
The film's central thesis explicitly promotes progressive ideology by foregrounding queer affirmation, critiquing traditional masculinity, and engaging with identity politics, aligning with contemporary US left-leaning social movements.
The series 'Overcompensating' demonstrates explicit DEI by centering a gay protagonist and exploring the LGBTQ+ experience. Its narrative actively critiques traditional hypermasculinity, highlighting its impact on self-expression and identity.
Secondary
Overcompensating provides an affirming and nuanced portrayal of LGBTQ+ experiences, primarily through Benny, a closeted college freshman. It explores internalized homophobia and societal pressures with humor and critical insight, satirizing hyper-masculinity. The show depicts a complex journey of self-acceptance and a spectrum of queer identities, validating LGBTQ+ lives without resorting to stereotypes or simplistic narratives.
Overcompensating offers a nuanced and empathetic portrayal of transsexual characters, focusing on their lived experiences, challenges, and journey toward self-acceptance. The series sensitively depicts traumatic experiences and real-life struggles, integrating trans individuals into a broader narrative of queer identity. It treats trans characters with dignity and humanity, emphasizing their full personhood and intersectional identities.
The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.
The show features original characters not adapted from pre-existing canon or historical figures. All characters are portrayed with genders consistent with their initial creation, with no instances of a character's on-screen gender differing from an established source.
The show's casting aligns with or does not contradict the source material's character descriptions. For characters whose race was not specified in the source, diverse casting choices were made, which does not constitute a race swap per the definition provided.
Viewer Rating Breakdown
User Ratings
7.7
7.4
Critic Ratings
9.3
7.2
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