Connie Britton, Kyle MacLachlan & Kaia Gerber Among 9 Cast In Prime Video’s ‘Overcompensating’

EXCLUSIVE: Prime Video‘s Overcompensating has added to its cast with 9 including Connie Britton (Friday Night Lights), Kyle MacLachlan (Twin Peaks), Kaia Gerber (Palm Royale), Julia Shiplett (Love Life), Tommy Do (Miracle Workers), Alexandra Beaton (Luckiest Girl Alive), Claire Qute (The Detail), Elias Azimi and Maddie Phillips (Gen V).

From creator, writer, executive producer and star Benito Skinner, Overcompensating is a college-set ensemble comedy about the wild, chaotic journey of Benny (Skinner), a closeted former football player and homecoming king, watching as he becomes fast friends with Carmen (Baram), a high school outsider on a mission to fit in at all costs. With guidance from Benny’s older sister (Barone) and her campus-legend boyfriend (DiMarco), Benny and Carmen juggle horrible hookups, flavored vodka, and fake IDs. The show explores the lengths to which we all overcompensate while on the path to finding out who we really are.

Britton plays Kathryn, Benny’s helicopter mom and struggling empty nester; MacLachlan plays John, Benny’s overbearing dad who can’t seem to move on from Benny’s high school glory days; Shiplett plays Mimi, Grace’s queer, free spirit former friend; Do plays Kevin, a Yates University freshman orientation counselor who takes his role very seriously; Gerber plays Esther, one of the terrifying and untouchable co-heads of rush for the elite Yates University secret society Flesh & Gold.

Beaton plays Bridget, Esther’s Flesh & Gold rush co-head who takes great pleasure in running the show; Qute plays Sloan, a former horse girl and current preppy, posh Yates student; Azimi plays Chris, an overly confident Yates freshman trying to be the perfect version of a college frat bro; Phillips joins in a guest star role as Gigi, a freshman party girl who is down for anything.

In addition to Skinner, EPs include Jonah Hill, Matt Dines, and Ali Goodwin for Strong Baby. Charli XCX will serve as executive music producer for the series produced by A24 and Amazon MGM Studios.

Britton is repped by Untitled Entertainment, CAA and Hansen, Jacobson, Teller, Hoberman; Do is represented by 3 Arts Entertainment and CAA; Shiplett is repped by Mosaic and Innovative Artists; Gerber is represented by CAA, Entertainment360, DNA Model Management and Sloan, Offer, Weber & Dern; Beaton is represented by The Characters Talent Agency; Phillips is represented by CAA, Artists First, and Jackoway Austen; MacLachlan is represented by UTA, Entertainment 360, and attorney Alan Wertheimer; Amanda Rosenthal Talent Agency represents Qute; Azimi is represented by Element Artist Management Inc.