This 26-page editorial features an exclusive conversation with comedian Benito Skinner.
Celebrated for his ingenious impersonations and viral characters, he now cements his place as a writer, actor, and show creator of singular vision. With Overcompensating, Skinner delivers a series that is at once fever dream and time capsule — a queer story of longing that collapses the divide between the intimate and the absurd.
What emerges is more than a show. It is a cultural moment: a work that situates itself alongside the classics Skinner grew up with — Cruel Intentions, Freaks and Geeks, Mean Girls — yet subverts them with new voices, new bodies, and new truths.
In our conversation, Skinner reflects on building a world from scratch: casting with intuition against industry types, giving writers a seat at the table, and trusting that humor and heartbreak can live in the same breath.
For all its camp and spectacle — talking Megan Fox posters, Charli XCX demonic interludes, vine-swinging in loincloths — Overcompensating is at heart autobiographical, a reckoning with closeted youth and the rituals of becoming. Skinner is cradling our lil' hearts and then smashing them into pulp with the naughtiest of smiles. This volume preserves that shift, charting the cultural and personal stakes of an artist who has always been funny — but is now quintessential.
Overcompensating is available to stream on Amazon.
This 26-page editorial features an exclusive conversation with comedian Benito Skinner.
Celebrated for his ingenious impersonations and viral characters, he now cements his place as a writer, actor, and show creator of singular vision. With Overcompensating, Skinner delivers a series that is at once fever dream and time capsule — a queer story of longing that collapses the divide between the intimate and the absurd.
What emerges is more than a show. It is a cultural moment: a work that situates itself alongside the classics Skinner grew up with — Cruel Intentions, Freaks and Geeks, Mean Girls — yet subverts them with new voices, new bodies, and new truths.
In our conversation, Skinner reflects on building a world from scratch: casting with intuition against industry types, giving writers a seat at the table, and trusting that humor and heartbreak can live in the same breath.
For all its camp and spectacle — talking Megan Fox posters, Charli XCX demonic interludes, vine-swinging in loincloths — Overcompensating is at heart autobiographical, a reckoning with closeted youth and the rituals of becoming. Skinner is cradling our lil' hearts and then smashing them into pulp with the naughtiest of smiles. This volume preserves that shift, charting the cultural and personal stakes of an artist who has always been funny — but is now quintessential.
Overcompensating is available to stream on Amazon.