The Reel Rejects - OFF CAMPUS Episodes 1 & 2 REVIEW – THIS IS THE O.G. HOCKEY ROMANCE?!

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Starting point is 00:01:37 Okay. All right, ladies and gentlemen, we just watched. We watched Off Campus, Tara's new favorite show. I love it! We watched the first two episodes here. If you want to get the full reaction watch along, help support the channel,

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Starting point is 00:02:14 We have some amazing artists. We support them. Territus launches. I don't want it. It has a cool thing on the back. Look at the back. I'm not going to turn around right now. Why?

Starting point is 00:02:22 I'm not in the mood. Why? Well, hold on. Why? But the back is the coolest part, Gregory. What is it? It's a knife that I wish was real that I could just. Why don't you just stand and turn around?

Starting point is 00:02:34 Oh, my gosh. This is not good framing. Yes, it is. It's just not good enough. Everybody loves it. It's not good enough. See it? It's a reject.

Starting point is 00:02:41 It's a knife. It's bleeding. Cool. I think this would have been a lot better if you'd stood up a turnaround. No, everybody loves what I just did. Okay. Leave it in the comments. Tell him he's an idiot.

Starting point is 00:02:53 Okay. Well, well, Tara. Yeah. You were losing your shit. You were losing your shit. I love this. It's always fun hopping in one of these shows when we don't know anything about it. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:03:04 That was really. It started off like really fun and sexual, like, teasing. And then it's like getting more. I like that's one of those shows where it just keeps pulling back more and more layers and reveal about the character. And imagine what's like based off of a book, you want to get more character driven. And it just kept getting more and more character dynamics and more telling about the characters. So yeah, I had a really good time with this. How are you feeling?

Starting point is 00:03:29 Because we got six more episodes to watch so we don't have to talk too long. How are you thinking so far? I had so much fun. The thing is, is I did not know that she was going to be able to sing and play music. That, to me, makes this show. Like, it's definitely one of my favorites. It's already the vibes are off the chain. I love the romance in it, especially, like, the college vibes where you kind of feel like,

Starting point is 00:03:49 young and vibey. I like it, except it's not corny. Like, it's written really well. And the subtlety of the damage that the characters may or may not have been through is actually directed at a really, it's a really, good level, like a really nice subtle level where you go, like, it doesn't feel like a show to me that's a second device show. Because if you had missed her thinking about that guy and her shakiness or like certain flashbacks, they happen really quickly where I feel like this show is trusting the

Starting point is 00:04:23 audience enough to have a brain and go, we're not going to, we don't have to force feed you the plot here. Just watch and enjoy. And I like that. There's not a lot of X. They're sure. There's some of my exposition, but not an over-exorbitant amount, which I really, really like. And I'm just, I'm very, very excited. Like, this is, I would have binge this in one night. What were you like at this point in your life in college? I was singing wicked in the dorm room. Well, here's the thing.

Starting point is 00:04:54 This, I didn't get to go to real school. I went to American Music and Dramatic Academy. Like, it's a lot of gay guys and women together. singing, dancing, and acting. That's what my life was like, not like that. I don't know about frats, a fraternity, whatever, any of that. But you know what I did relate to?

Starting point is 00:05:14 Is Graham with his dad, where I was like, yeah, when I was a baby, I have a weird memory where my dad was yelling at my mom. And it was like a fight. And I don't remember the physicality of it, but I do remember feeling like how he felt when you're too young to be able to fight back.

Starting point is 00:05:35 You can't do anything. And that's like a memory that I'm like, oh, that, so I relate to that with him or I was like, oh, yeah, I get it. You could be real mad and want to like seek vengeance. Which is why I love vengeance now. But, yeah, in college, my college was not like this. But what was I like?

Starting point is 00:05:54 I would, I mean, I would play. I played songs like her too. Okay. So do you like relate with her? A lot. I love her. Well, I like that. that she plays, she plays music, and she has a tough time being like, oh, I wish that we could go back to page one.

Starting point is 00:06:08 I don't relate to what's happened to her, think, goodness. We don't know for sure. We don't know. We don't know. She seems heavily implied. It seems very implied. Yeah. That, what we're thinking is happening to her and not happened to me, but I relate to her because she loves, like, the music stuff.

Starting point is 00:06:25 And she's also not good at flirting or talking to guys in general that she thinks are. Cuta. Um, oh, did you really struggle with that? Yeah, like, oh God,

Starting point is 00:06:42 yeah. Like, what a nerd alert. Like, I'm not good at flirt. I can't, when I went to go to the bars,

Starting point is 00:06:48 okay, my friends would be there, and Mary O'Neill was always really good at eye flirting. She knows how to, like, make eye contact as she, like, walks in and, like,

Starting point is 00:06:57 hold eye contact. And I would be like, I don't know. I didn't even stand. I don't even know what you're talking about. That was me, you guys. So, like, yes, I relate to her. Nerd Alert.

Starting point is 00:07:10 I don't know how to do that stuff. Even now. I'm like, uh, like. Really? I thought you would at least, like, just know how to come properly conversant. I know how to have a conversation now. But like, if they're like, the flirting, yeah. The flirting aspect of it, if I don't know them and I don't know that they're into me,

Starting point is 00:07:30 then I'm not going to. I don't know how to get that started. I've never seen a situation for you where you're about to flirt with a man. I don't know what that would look like. He's saying, I just feel like you get louder. I don't foresee those circumstances ever pretending themselves. No, no, yeah, no, no, I know, I know. I probably do just get louder.

Starting point is 00:07:52 The more drinks I have, I do get louder. If the music is loud, my voice rises above it. Yeah. It's annoying. Well, dude, I'm so happy you're enjoying this. I love the show. I know relationships and everything are like, yeah, yeah. They're not on Tara's solo channel.

Starting point is 00:08:06 She covers a lot of, like, reality shows and stuff. It's true. So it's all about relationships for her over there. See this daily greens? I have it daily. And they're black condition ready to drink several times a week. We got so many at the office. In fact, I'm a little bit parched right now.

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Starting point is 00:10:14 New customers only. Link in the description box and comment. Thank you, Heel, for partnering and supporting R.R. And my body, once again. This is a lifestyle that I have no related. ability to my personal life. It's a big part. Like, it's, I mean, we're writing something now is how little I have a connection to.

Starting point is 00:10:37 I've been writing something now that's supposed to take place at a high school. And I'm like, I never went to high school. Like, really. I was there for three months. Oh, God. So I don't really know how it works. Oh, God. So I'm like, wait a minute.

Starting point is 00:10:53 How do I? He's struggle. What are like, what are, like, periods? the classes and what are the events that happen that are not from? Like I don't know. That's a struggle.

Starting point is 00:11:05 So you best believe I don't know what the fucking college is like in any capacity. Right. So I was never part of like the parties and stuff. Like of course been to parties and whatever where people are drinking. But I'm usually like a very,

Starting point is 00:11:17 I'd be a very uncomfortable person back then. I back then I was the guy who was just, I know how to socialize now, but back then I was just the dude who went uncomfortably quiet. Really? Yeah. I would just... But would you drink to help you not...

Starting point is 00:11:29 No, I didn't really start having any drinks that I was like in my 20s. Really? Yeah, it took me a while. So you were just soberly awkward. I was like a really funny guy in a small set, small group, but it went out in party settings. No, I was just like socially awful. And I would just, I would get really quiet and reserved. So yeah, there's not one part of me.

Starting point is 00:11:47 It's like, I always like to be these guys, these bros, you know. Oh my way left now. That's about as far as my relatability goes with it. But on the internal stuff I do. like illustrating these two different people what's the guy's in Garrett or Graham? I'm calling him Graham because it's something Graham. I think it is Garrett Graham.

Starting point is 00:12:06 Let's just like, look up. We need to, we need to at least commit to memory to two main characters. That's Hannah, because they said it a gazillion times. It is. Oh, it's both right. It's Gary Graham. Okay.

Starting point is 00:12:20 Oh, he's got an alliteration name. And this is the, that is the guy from the Reba show. Yeah. And from the. from the um with it's gonna come to me I'm not even gonna look at the title

Starting point is 00:12:33 you know where he's the he's the dad and it's not good and he has a million kids and they live in Chicago and they're really poor they're really poor nope shameless yeah okay thanks oh he's in shameless he was good in that too yeah so apparently this guys had an actually

Starting point is 00:12:50 thriving career since rebut and I know that's about as far back as my knowledge goes in. That's funny. Look at this IMDB. Holy shit. I remember mostly from Shameless.

Starting point is 00:13:02 Yeah. Yeah. I remember the commercials of Reba. So anyway, yeah. I mean, like when we're looking at these struggles between the two of them,

Starting point is 00:13:12 from what it seems like with her, with Hannah, and of course, we haven't really dived into like her backstory as a child. Right. It seems like they're presenting two different cases of PTSD.

Starting point is 00:13:24 One is more of a, classic case of what we associate with PTSD, like an event happened and that's really fuck them up. And then there's the other one of complex PTSD, which is more of what I had, like where it's more of a lifestyle you had, like an accumulation of events that you sort of had. And now you have the symptoms and the things you have to deal with in therapy or medication-wise that come from PTSD. Right.

Starting point is 00:13:52 So I like that that seems like what they're doing with it too. because he seems like he had a lifestyle thing with his father and his mom. And I feel like he was kind of lying about his mom when she said she died of cancer. Oh, you did, you did. Okay. I could be wrong.

Starting point is 00:14:07 It just seemed like he was lying at the time. No, I totally agree with you. The thing that I thought when he said that is that I thought she was going to say something about her mom too, like maybe being passed or something. She didn't, I do agree with you that maybe it's too much to talk about

Starting point is 00:14:23 so he lies that she's died of cancer. when really she's either hurt and we don't know where she is or she was hurt too badly maybe by dad or maybe that was the truth. Yeah. Yeah. I think the show is written really well. Me too. Everyone is so complex. There's all of us as human beings we have inner contradictions.

Starting point is 00:14:41 There's yin and yangs and whatever. And everyone here has that complexity. If you even look at the friend who was trying to convince her boyfriend and go out and do some different things. Totally. Clearly she loves him and still wants to be with him. And then she's got this complete opposite side. It's in total conflict with that. And if you look at our main characters, that's what they're dealing with the whole time.

Starting point is 00:15:00 He robs himself of connection because he's like, I can't for the things that I'm putting all my care of attention to. But there's a big part of me that doesn't really, there's like I'm acting like I care more about this thing than I actually do. Right. Exactly. And I'm giving my life to that and I'm sacrificing something that could fulfill me. And she's like dealing with, I want to create music and do this. But a big part of that is having to uncover truth within herself. and that way she could be like a real artist and express herself.

Starting point is 00:15:29 Exactly. She can't really do that unless. And I like her struggle with trust. So yeah, the way that everyone's written it, it's not black and white. Everything's very nuanced. And I appreciate it. I thought this is the other thing is like we're talking about the depth of it. But it's also a very fun show.

Starting point is 00:15:43 Like it's extremely fun. It's extremely fun. Right. And the subtleties of what they're going through, the way that they show it is nothing like too. It's not like too damaging. We're like, oh my God, it's too much. you're like, oh, we get it. All right, there's some trauma here.

Starting point is 00:15:58 But overall, when we get to the parts where most of it is a grand old time. Yeah. Which you're like, yeah, this is what college would be of you secretly hiding all of the deep, dark stuff down here. And then thinking about the boys or the girls that you want to flirt with, that you want to date and like going out with your friends, right? But each one of these people all have something that they want more out of life that they're searching for that now we're getting into the depths of it. in the first couple episodes, we see little parts of that with each person that we've met for the most part, which is great.

Starting point is 00:16:32 Yeah. Ensemble's great. Everyone's great. And it's got a great vibe and pacing and editing is awesome too. So yeah, I'm happy we're watching the show. And I can't wait for everything to get progressively worse for everyone because this is only episode two. So you know all the conflicts and set up.

Starting point is 00:16:47 It's just going to get way more intense. Yeah. I do hope, my one hope, my last thought with this is a band member guy. I forget his name, Jose. Justin. Justin. I knew there was a Jay there. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:17:01 Justin, he seems kind of like a caricature. Totally. And I'm hoping he'd be, they're doing a really interesting job with taking some of the, the other hockey players, a couple of them. And making them feel more human than just frat boy people. Like you're getting little tidbits to make them seem more human. And Justin, I'm sure the show will go there. He does seem like a caricature. I agree.

Starting point is 00:17:22 The second he's, she had a girlfriend. He was like, I want to. Maybe there are guys who do have that switch like that. Yeah. But everything about him does just seem like a joke. And I want it. I hope they humanize him. Me too.

Starting point is 00:17:35 Because he didn't seem that nice at the restaurant when he was just like, cool. Yeah. Is my order ready? I was just like, ew. No. Yeah. Ew. True.

Starting point is 00:17:43 So I'm hoping that at some point Hannah grows enough to where she maybe like makes him feel more human after realizing he's not going off. Very true. Very true, Tara. All right, guys. Well, what did you think about off-campus? I'm sure you guys have already finished the show and now you're here watching us, review something, and you're like, just watch the next episode. We like to take our time.

Starting point is 00:18:08 Yeah, we do. All right, guys. We'll see you for episode three and four. Peace.

The Reel Rejects - OFF CAMPUS Episodes 1 & 2 REVIEW – THIS IS THE O.G. HOCKEY ROMANCE?!

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