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Overcompensating Season 1 Episodes
Season 1 Episode Guide
8 Episodes 2025 - 2025
Episode 1
Lucky
Thu, May 15, 202537 mins
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 on day one or suffer the consequences. The stakes couldn't be higher, tbh.
Episode 2
Who's That Girl?
Thu, May 15, 202534 mins
Benny and Carmen scour the campus for fake IDs so they can join the rest of the freshmen class at Rock Bar. Peter comes through for Benny, but not even Carmen's party-girl roommate Hailee can help her out--well, *in*, as in into Rock Bar. Meanwhile, Grace befriends an elderly woman.
Episode 3
Black and Yellow
Thu, May 15, 202532 mins
Benny gets noticed by a secret society and wants to get Carmen the same attention. Lucky for them, it is alumni tailgate weekend so she gets to show off her legendary drinking prowess. Meanwhile, Peter gets some sobering news, and Grace reconnects with Mimi.
Episode 4
Boom Clap
Thu, May 15, 202534 mins
Benny gets caught in a lie and gets into a fight with Carmen, but Carmen still basks in her new legend status. While Grace works the Charli XCX concert, Peter hazes male pledges and Carmen is psychologically tortured alongside the female pledges.
Episode 5
Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites
Thu, May 15, 202533 mins
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.
Episode 6
The Edge of Glory
Thu, May 15, 202536 mins
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.
Episode 7
Welcome to the Black Parade
Thu, May 15, 202537 mins
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.
Episode 8
Crown on the Ground
Thu, May 15, 202536 mins
It is finals week and relationships are put to the test. Carmen forces Benny to explain his web of lies, Grace makes a discovery, Peter goes to get what is his, Hailee looks for her performance-enhancing meds, and Miles wonders what he did wrong.