The Off Campus adaptation has arrived on Amazon Prime, and Nikki and Meg watched all eight episodes in five days because once it started, stopping wasn’t really an option.
Their verdict? An 8 out of 10 (Meg holds out for an 8.5) with some genuine craft praise and sharp criticism for where the final episodes lost the thread.
Listen in for:
Why Meg thinks the Justin-as-musician swap was actually the right adaptation call
Dean’s consent speech that every person on earth should have to watch
Where the final two episodes lost the thread and what the show needed to deliver for Garrett that it didn’t
The adaptation choice that replaced the blackmail plot and whether it lands with Bad Hockey Dad
Music as a character: how the show used song to do what the book couldn’t
The internet’s circumcision discourse, which was not on anyone’s bingo card
The full frontal was unexpected. The feelings were not.
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