Overcompensating has a lot of heart beneath its mile-a-minute jokes and dangling dicks

Anyone who went to undergrad will tell you that freshman year is basically a two-semester cringefest. But that’s what you get when you liberate a thousand-odd baby birds from their nests and leave them to fend for themselves.

Recent co-ed TV comedies like Max’s The Sex Lives Of College Girls have attempted to capture the anxious, horny spirit of this time, but have instead delivered artificial, constructed worlds that feel too shiny by half. Enter the new Prime Video sitcom Overcompensating...