The other day, a friend told me I had to watch Off Campus no matter what. “Is it good?”, I asked her. “No”, she said excitedly, “And that’s the best part!”. And what do you want me to say: yes, it’s good that there are series like Off Campus, capable of revolutionizing several age segments without trying to be “a movie in episodes” or anything like that. It is what it wants to be, and with that, it has more than enough, something that its fans may not have fully understood.
Too much passion for what they do
For as long as anyone can remember, the most devoted fans of something have believed it to be real, reaching some gruesome limits. Fortunately, to prevent the same thing from happening as in other times it has suffered, for example, Star Wars, Amazon Prime Video has taken measures: “The Off Campus community is built on a deep love for stories, and respect for the real people who bring them to life.” Up to that point, everything is fine, but then the love runs out quickly.
“We ask everyone in this space to extend that respect towards our cast and the people in their lives. Accounts that engage in targeted harassment will not be able to follow our accounts”. In other words: it’s great that you like the series, but calm down already. This doesn’t come out of nowhere: Mika Abdalla, who will star in season 2, announced that she was separating from her fiancé and a clip taken out of context has gone viral across the Internet, including death threats. Ah, that never changes in our old Internet!
We cannot forget that this same May, Amazon also had to calm the fans of The Summer I Turned Pretty so that they would respect the actors during the filming of the movie, and stop sharing the locations where it is being shot to enter them peacefully. “The series is real but the people who portray the characters are real”, they said at the time. For some reason, there are still those who haven’t grasped this.