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Prime Video‘s new 8-part series, which has been called a Heated Rivalry replacement, just earned a near-perfect Rotten Tomatoes score, making it a must-binge. Already confirmed for a second season after making its worldwide streaming premiere on Wednesday, May 13, this series has become an overnight sensation on Prime Video, currently ranking #2 on the streamer’s viewership chart in the United States and surging past other new releases like Good Omens season 3 and Citadel season 2.
Off Campus is one of the best shows to watch on Prime Video this week due to its near-universal acclaim, its rising popularity, and its celebrated source material. At the time of writing, Off Campus earned a near-perfect Rotten Tomatoes score of 93% along with a similarly impressive 86% RT audience score, making it both a critical darling and an instant fan favorite. As ScreenRant’s El Kuiper wrote in her review of Off Campus season 1, the Prime Video hit takes a “Bridgerton-esque approach to the narrative, turning the show into an ensemble drama instead — and the series is all the better for it.”
Prime Video’s Answer To ‘Heated Rivalry’ Is Officially A Must-Binge Series
Off Campus just premiered on Prime Video on Wednesday, May 13, with eight brand new episodes that are ready to stream right now. Often considered a replacement series for HBO Max’s viral hit Heated Rivalry, Off Campus offers similar themes and character dynamics with a sports-themed story and background, specifically hockey, and both are based on popular books. Because the full season recently dropped at once, and each episode runs between 46 and 55 minutes long, it’s perfect for a weekend binge, spread out over a few sittings.
Off Campus follows a fictional group of hockey players at Blair University and their romantic relationships. The first season of Off Campus on Prime Video adapts the 2015 novel The Deal by Elle Kennedy, in which a college student named Hannah Wells reluctantly agrees to tutor the star hockey player and team captain, Garrett Graham, with one catch – pretend to date her to make another guy jealous. Desperate to keep his grades up to keep his hockey career going, Garrett accepts the deal, which leads to unexpected developments.
While Heated Rivalry is a fair comparison to Off Campus, the series is also quite similar to Netflix’s recent hit series Finding Her Edge, based on the YA novel of the same name by Jennifer Iacopelli. The series uses sports as part of its college campus setting and romantic storylines, so viewers should not expect it to be a full-blown sports drama series. At the same time, Off Campus may seem like an all-too-familiar rom-com, but it actually goes quite deep into some more serious territory, including trauma, insecurities, consent, and more.
Binge-Watch All 8 New Episodes Of ‘Off Campus’ Season 1 This Weekend
Off Campus is one of the most enjoyable new shows you can binge on any streaming platform this weekend and is worth the 8-episode binge. With a total runtime of just under seven hours, viewers can reasonably watch the entire first season of Off Campus from start to finish in just a few sittings, making it ideal to spread over the course of one weekend. Given the immediate viewership surge of the series in just one day, Off Campus is bound to be one of the most-watched Prime Video shows of the entire month of May.
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Since celebrated romantic dramedy series like The Summer I Turned Pretty and Maxton Hall have proven to be enormous hits for Prime Video, Off Campus is expected to follow suit as one of Prime Video’s most talked-about new shows of Spring 2026. While achieving more viewership than The Boys, Prime’s #1 show in the world right now, will be unlikely as that beloved series nears its finale, Off Campus is nicely positioned to pull in some massive viewership this weekend. With five books already published in the series, not including the spin-off series Briar U, it looks like Prime Video has found another promising franchise with Off Campus.
