Off Campus has issued a warning to those harassing their cast online.
The official accounts for the Prime Video series posted a “special request from your Off Campus family” on Thursday to call out those who are targeting castmembers and loved ones of the cast. “The Off Campus community is built upon a shared love of storytelling — and on respect for the real people who bring it to life,” the post read.
“We ask that everyone in this space extend that respect to our cast and the people in their lives,” it continued. “Accounts that engage in targeted harassment will be removed from following our accounts.”
The show, which features a cast of relatively young and new actors, has become a buzzy viral sensation and gained a big online audience. Along with that big audience has, unsurprisingly, come some viewers who are commenting on the actors’ and their significant others’ personal lives.
Off Campus, based on Elle Kennedy’s book series of the same name, has become a hit for Prime Video. The series reached 36 million viewers worldwide over its first 12 days of release, according to figures shared by the Amazon-owned streamer. It comes in as Prime Video’s third largest series debut over that amount of time, behind The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power and Fallout.
The book series Off Campus, which begins with The Deal, follows a new-but-connected couple in each book. The show plans to keep that model. Season one dove headfirst into the age-old romantic trope of fake dating with music student Hannah Wells (Ella Bright), who, in true hockey fashion, is often called Wellsy by her love interest, Garrett Graham (Belmont Cameli). Graham is the son of a professional hockey legend and captain of Briar University’s hockey team.
The show’s next installment will adapt the plot of Kennedy’s third novel in the Off Campus series, The Score. It centers on lovable party boy turned certified lover boy Dean Di Laurentis (Stephen Kalyn) and aspiring actress and the ultimate best friend Allie Hayes (Mika Abdalla). Both Kalyn and Abdalla’s characters were fan favorites during the season one run.
