Overcompensating season two gets promising update

It looks as of Overcompensating, the popular coming-of-age series, could be getting a second season thanks to a promising update from the head of TV at Amazon.

The queer comedy show created and led by social media star Benito Skinner, aka Benny Drama, sees a fictionalised and closeted version of himself navigate college life.

We’ve already had teases of ideas for a second season from Skinner and others in the cast, but more weight has been added to these by Amazon MGM Studios’ Vernon Sanders.

Speaking to Variety about Amazon’s strategy when it comes to young adult projects Sanders said the company looks at what stories are being told as well as fanbases and who is driving those.

Referencing Skinner’s comedy series, Sanders said “we’ve been excited by what we’ve seen” with that as well as another series, Motorheads. “Each show has a really passionate fanbase, and we’ve been really pleased by the completion rates [of the series],” he went on to say.

As for Overcompensating getting a second season Sanders shared, “we’re going to be in conversations” with Skinner and the creators of Motorheads and We Were Liars. He then said, “All three shows are working on Season 2 writers rooms, and we’ll hope to have renewal announcements soon on some, if not all, of those shows.”

Sanders also touched on the possibility of The Summer I Turned Pretty getting a spin-off. The show adapted one of the main characters, Jeremiah, from the book to make him bisexual. Sanders told Variety that “we’ll be able to have more conversations” with writer and creator Jenny Han after the third and final season finishes airing. “She’s got new ideas that she’s been dying to tackle. So whatever Jenny wants to do, we want to do it with her,” he added.

It’s an exciting update that bolsters hope for more from the whole Overcompensating family. As well as Skinner, the series starred Mary Beth Barone, Rish Shah, Adam DiMarco, and a host of fabulous guest stars.

Previously Skinner has teased ideas for an “unhinged” second season. He told Variety in May: “There will be backslide, and that’s what that finale is. This journey of becoming yourself and overcompensating, it’s a rollercoaster and at times I think college can be so selfish and you can be like, it’s every man for himself. It’s drugs and alcohol and feelings and we didn’t want to stray from that, and we want to continue it.”

Overcompensating is available to stream on Prime Video now.

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