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\n Related: <\/span>Which ‘Off Campus’ Couples End Up Together? Book Order Explained<\/span><\/a>
\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n\t\t\tPrime Video\u2019s Off Campus follows different love stories at Briar U \u2014 but which couples end up together in the books? Based on the Off Campus book series by Elle Kennedy, the show follows an elite ice hockey team \u2014 and the women in their lives \u2014 as they \u201cgrapple with love, heartbreak, and self-discovery [\u2026]\t\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Tucker\u2019s Fruit Gag Foreshadows Future Season<\/b><\/h2>\n
One of the most-discussed Easter eggs involves Jalen Thomas Brooks<\/b>\u2018 character, John Tucker, who spends season 1 pledging Dean (Stephen Kalyn<\/b>) and Beau Maxwell\u2019s (Khobe Clarke<\/b>) fraternity. Part of his hazing requires him to care for a piece of fruit \u2014 starting with a grape, which is later swapped for a strawberry, banana and watermelon as the season progresses.<\/p>\n
Fans quickly connected the gag to The Goal<\/i><\/span><\/a>, Tucker\u2019s book in Kennedy\u2019s series, in which his eventual love interest Sabrina James discovers she\u2019s pregnant after a hookup with Tucker. Pregnancies are typically measured weekly by fruit size.<\/p>\n\u201cApparently someone said Tucker holding a fruit in season 1 is a foreshadow for his season since babies are usually measured by fruit when they\u2019re in the womb,\u201d one fan tweeted in May 2026.<\/p>\n
Tucker and Logan\u2019s \u2018Dynamic Duos\u2019 Costumes<\/b><\/h2>\n\n![\"Beau-Dean-and-Tucker-Off_Campus_S1_UT_102_250618_HENLIA_0001RC2_3000\"](\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Beau-Dean-and-Tucker-Off_Campus_S1_UT_102_250618_HENLIA_0001RC2_3000.jpg?w=1000&quality=86&strip=all\")
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\n Beau Maxwell (Khobe Clarke), Dean Di Laurentis (Stephen Thomas Kalyn) and John Tucker (Jalen Thomas Brooks) in \u2018Off Campus.\u2019<\/span> Liane Hentscher \/ Prime<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\nAt Dean and Beau\u2019s joint birthday party, Tucker dresses as a bumblebee and Logan (Antonio Cipriano<\/b>) dresses as a hawk \u2014 a reference to the \u201cbirds and the bees\u201d and Tucker and Sabrina\u2019s future child.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m a bumblebee, and then Logan\u2019s a hawk or a bird,\u201d Brooks told Deadline in May 2026. \u201c[It is a] whole play on words was the birds and the bees, which is kind of correlated to both John Logan and John Tucker\u2019s stories, in a sense. Specifically John Tucker\u2019s. There\u2019s a lot of foreshadowing going on in that episode.\u201d<\/p>\n
Brooks also teased Tucker\u2019s future to Us Weekly<\/i>: \u201cYou\u2019re gonna see a lot of Tucker becoming this guy that he\u2019s known to be in the books and everything. I\u2019m excited for audiences to see Tucker, [who is] supposed to creep up on people, you know, and have a little bit of romance.\u201d<\/p>\nBeau Maxwell\u2019s Role Expanded\u00a0<\/b><\/h2>\n
Clarke\u2019s portrayal of Beau Maxwell \u2014 a Briar University football player and friend of the hockey team \u2014 has fans emotionally bracing<\/span><\/a> for his onscreen fate. In Kennedy\u2019s novels, Beau dies in a car crash during Sabrina and Tucker\u2019s story, and viewers are already dreading the character\u2019s expected exit.<\/p>\n\u201cI mean, in season 1, we only get, I think, a little taste of Beau, but he does [fill] the screen a little,\u201d Kennedy told Us<\/i>. \u201cI think that Khobe, he\u2019s such a great actor and he\u2019s the sweetest guy. He had a lot of the little comedic bits in the season.\u201d<\/p>\n
According to Kennedy, fans will \u201cfall in love\u201d with Clarke\u2019s Beau before being \u201ceventually devastated.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hunter Davenport\u2019s Debut Delivers Major Twist<\/b><\/h2>\n
The season 1 finale introduced Hunter Davenport<\/span><\/a>, played by Charlie Evans<\/b>, in a major departure from the books. On the page, Hunter doesn\u2019t appear until Dean\u2019s book, The Score<\/i>, before leading his own book, The Play<\/i> \u2014 though he wasn\u2019t linked to Allie (Mika Abdalla<\/b>) in either.<\/p>\nThe final scene showed Dean arguing with Hunter, with hints the conflict involves Dean\u2019s sister Summer, who previously dated Hunter in high school<\/p>\n
\u201c[Hunter\u2019s arrival is] a launching point to hopefully explore some of Dean\u2019s backstory in season 2,\u201d the showrunner told Swooon in May 2026. \u201cBut it really was an opportunity to put a little bit of a twist in their story line and prolong it just a little bit, so that we have lots of room to play with them in future seasons. And we also wanted to nod to the book fans that we might have some other characters that you might not expect showing up in fun ways.\u201d<\/p>\n
Louisa Levy and Elle Kennedy Explain Adaptation Approach<\/b><\/h2>\n
Levy exclusively told Us<\/i> Weekly<\/i><\/span><\/a> in May 2026 the team prioritized the series\u2019 emotional core over a literal translation.<\/p>\n\u201cWe have a lot of stories told in different ways. We have eight episodes instead of the whole book. So we really started with the things that were super nonnegotiable \u2014 that without those things it wouldn\u2019t be Off Campus<\/i>,\u201d the show creator said. \u201cFrom there, we added as many of the book moments as we could. We dropped them in like Easter eggs.\u201d<\/p>\n
Kennedy, who consulted on scripts but didn\u2019t have final creative control, told Us<\/i><\/span><\/a> in a separate interview that she was prepared for changes from her source material.<\/p>\n\n\n\t![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/themes\/us-weekly\/assets\/img\/newsletter-bg-narrow.jpg\")
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\u201cApparently someone said Tucker holding a fruit in season 1 is a foreshadow for his season since babies are usually measured by fruit when they\u2019re in the womb,\u201d one fan tweeted in May 2026.<\/p>\n
Tucker and Logan\u2019s \u2018Dynamic Duos\u2019 Costumes<\/b><\/h2>\n\n<\/div>
\n Beau Maxwell (Khobe Clarke), Dean Di Laurentis (Stephen Thomas Kalyn) and John Tucker (Jalen Thomas Brooks) in \u2018Off Campus.\u2019<\/span> Liane Hentscher \/ Prime<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\nAt Dean and Beau\u2019s joint birthday party, Tucker dresses as a bumblebee and Logan (Antonio Cipriano<\/b>) dresses as a hawk \u2014 a reference to the \u201cbirds and the bees\u201d and Tucker and Sabrina\u2019s future child.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m a bumblebee, and then Logan\u2019s a hawk or a bird,\u201d Brooks told Deadline in May 2026. \u201c[It is a] whole play on words was the birds and the bees, which is kind of correlated to both John Logan and John Tucker\u2019s stories, in a sense. Specifically John Tucker\u2019s. There\u2019s a lot of foreshadowing going on in that episode.\u201d<\/p>\n
Brooks also teased Tucker\u2019s future to Us Weekly<\/i>: \u201cYou\u2019re gonna see a lot of Tucker becoming this guy that he\u2019s known to be in the books and everything. I\u2019m excited for audiences to see Tucker, [who is] supposed to creep up on people, you know, and have a little bit of romance.\u201d<\/p>\nBeau Maxwell\u2019s Role Expanded\u00a0<\/b><\/h2>\n
Clarke\u2019s portrayal of Beau Maxwell \u2014 a Briar University football player and friend of the hockey team \u2014 has fans emotionally bracing<\/span><\/a> for his onscreen fate. In Kennedy\u2019s novels, Beau dies in a car crash during Sabrina and Tucker\u2019s story, and viewers are already dreading the character\u2019s expected exit.<\/p>\n\u201cI mean, in season 1, we only get, I think, a little taste of Beau, but he does [fill] the screen a little,\u201d Kennedy told Us<\/i>. \u201cI think that Khobe, he\u2019s such a great actor and he\u2019s the sweetest guy. He had a lot of the little comedic bits in the season.\u201d<\/p>\n
According to Kennedy, fans will \u201cfall in love\u201d with Clarke\u2019s Beau before being \u201ceventually devastated.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hunter Davenport\u2019s Debut Delivers Major Twist<\/b><\/h2>\n
The season 1 finale introduced Hunter Davenport<\/span><\/a>, played by Charlie Evans<\/b>, in a major departure from the books. On the page, Hunter doesn\u2019t appear until Dean\u2019s book, The Score<\/i>, before leading his own book, The Play<\/i> \u2014 though he wasn\u2019t linked to Allie (Mika Abdalla<\/b>) in either.<\/p>\nThe final scene showed Dean arguing with Hunter, with hints the conflict involves Dean\u2019s sister Summer, who previously dated Hunter in high school<\/p>\n
\u201c[Hunter\u2019s arrival is] a launching point to hopefully explore some of Dean\u2019s backstory in season 2,\u201d the showrunner told Swooon in May 2026. \u201cBut it really was an opportunity to put a little bit of a twist in their story line and prolong it just a little bit, so that we have lots of room to play with them in future seasons. And we also wanted to nod to the book fans that we might have some other characters that you might not expect showing up in fun ways.\u201d<\/p>\n
Louisa Levy and Elle Kennedy Explain Adaptation Approach<\/b><\/h2>\n
Levy exclusively told Us<\/i> Weekly<\/i><\/span><\/a> in May 2026 the team prioritized the series\u2019 emotional core over a literal translation.<\/p>\n\u201cWe have a lot of stories told in different ways. We have eight episodes instead of the whole book. So we really started with the things that were super nonnegotiable \u2014 that without those things it wouldn\u2019t be Off Campus<\/i>,\u201d the show creator said. \u201cFrom there, we added as many of the book moments as we could. We dropped them in like Easter eggs.\u201d<\/p>\n
Kennedy, who consulted on scripts but didn\u2019t have final creative control, told Us<\/i><\/span><\/a> in a separate interview that she was prepared for changes from her source material.<\/p>\n\n\n\t
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<\/div>\n Beau Maxwell (Khobe Clarke), Dean Di Laurentis (Stephen Thomas Kalyn) and John Tucker (Jalen Thomas Brooks) in \u2018Off Campus.\u2019<\/span> Liane Hentscher \/ Prime<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
At Dean and Beau\u2019s joint birthday party, Tucker dresses as a bumblebee and Logan (Antonio Cipriano<\/b>) dresses as a hawk \u2014 a reference to the \u201cbirds and the bees\u201d and Tucker and Sabrina\u2019s future child.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m a bumblebee, and then Logan\u2019s a hawk or a bird,\u201d Brooks told Deadline in May 2026. \u201c[It is a] whole play on words was the birds and the bees, which is kind of correlated to both John Logan and John Tucker\u2019s stories, in a sense. Specifically John Tucker\u2019s. There\u2019s a lot of foreshadowing going on in that episode.\u201d<\/p>\n
Brooks also teased Tucker\u2019s future to Us Weekly<\/i>: \u201cYou\u2019re gonna see a lot of Tucker becoming this guy that he\u2019s known to be in the books and everything. I\u2019m excited for audiences to see Tucker, [who is] supposed to creep up on people, you know, and have a little bit of romance.\u201d<\/p>\nBeau Maxwell\u2019s Role Expanded\u00a0<\/b><\/h2>\n
Clarke\u2019s portrayal of Beau Maxwell \u2014 a Briar University football player and friend of the hockey team \u2014 has fans emotionally bracing<\/span><\/a> for his onscreen fate. In Kennedy\u2019s novels, Beau dies in a car crash during Sabrina and Tucker\u2019s story, and viewers are already dreading the character\u2019s expected exit.<\/p>\n \u201cI mean, in season 1, we only get, I think, a little taste of Beau, but he does [fill] the screen a little,\u201d Kennedy told Us<\/i>. \u201cI think that Khobe, he\u2019s such a great actor and he\u2019s the sweetest guy. He had a lot of the little comedic bits in the season.\u201d<\/p>\n According to Kennedy, fans will \u201cfall in love\u201d with Clarke\u2019s Beau before being \u201ceventually devastated.\u201d<\/p>\n The season 1 finale introduced Hunter Davenport<\/span><\/a>, played by Charlie Evans<\/b>, in a major departure from the books. On the page, Hunter doesn\u2019t appear until Dean\u2019s book, The Score<\/i>, before leading his own book, The Play<\/i> \u2014 though he wasn\u2019t linked to Allie (Mika Abdalla<\/b>) in either.<\/p>\n The final scene showed Dean arguing with Hunter, with hints the conflict involves Dean\u2019s sister Summer, who previously dated Hunter in high school<\/p>\n \u201c[Hunter\u2019s arrival is] a launching point to hopefully explore some of Dean\u2019s backstory in season 2,\u201d the showrunner told Swooon in May 2026. \u201cBut it really was an opportunity to put a little bit of a twist in their story line and prolong it just a little bit, so that we have lots of room to play with them in future seasons. And we also wanted to nod to the book fans that we might have some other characters that you might not expect showing up in fun ways.\u201d<\/p>\n Levy exclusively told Us<\/i> Weekly<\/i><\/span><\/a> in May 2026 the team prioritized the series\u2019 emotional core over a literal translation.<\/p>\n \u201cWe have a lot of stories told in different ways. We have eight episodes instead of the whole book. So we really started with the things that were super nonnegotiable \u2014 that without those things it wouldn\u2019t be Off Campus<\/i>,\u201d the show creator said. \u201cFrom there, we added as many of the book moments as we could. We dropped them in like Easter eggs.\u201d<\/p>\n Kennedy, who consulted on scripts but didn\u2019t have final creative control, told Us<\/i><\/span><\/a> in a separate interview that she was prepared for changes from her source material.<\/p>\nHunter Davenport\u2019s Debut Delivers Major Twist<\/b><\/h2>\n
Louisa Levy and Elle Kennedy Explain Adaptation Approach<\/b><\/h2>\n
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