Watch: Trailer Drops for Benito Skinner's Coming Out and Coming-Of-Age Comedy Series

Benito Skinner's comedy "Overcompensating" comes to Prime Video in May, and the show's new trailer promises plenty of coming-out comedy along with coming-of-age drama.

The eight-episode first season – one of at least four, if things go to plan – premieres May 15 and drops viewers into the tumult of college life. Inappropriate roommates? Check. Friendships forged in the fires of outsiderdom? Check. Escapades with stolen golf carts, ill-advised hookups, and a Greek chorus of a capella singers? Check, check, and check.

Benny (Skinner) arrives at college (what seems to be a thinly disguised Yale, complete with a "Skull and Bones"-style secret society), a high school sports hero and shy virgin who's desperately trying to please his parents (Connie Britton and Kyle McLaughlin) by majoring in business while seeking to live up to the expectations of his sister's swaggering boyfriend, Peter (Adam DiMarco). Peter, a would-be finance bro, warns Benny of the potentially dire social consequences of not getting lucky on day one. "You're either a guy who fucks, or..." Peter lets the sentence trail off ominously. The flaw in Peter's plan for Benny's success? Benny would rather be sleeping with someone like the handsome and charming Miles (Rish Shah)... and the instant chemistry between Benny and Miles suggests that it might actually happen.

But not before Benny and Carmen (Wally Baram) test the sexual waters. Awkward fumblings soon give way to a close platonic friendship as Benny struggles to accept himself and, eventually, come out. The memory of a catastrophic kiss with a high school buddy (Lukas Gage) flashes before Benny's eyes (and ours) on a frequent basis; Benny's going to have to come to grips with the past before he can chart his future.

"I really wanted queer people to see their experience and the complicatedness of that experience," Skinner told Vanity Fair.

An Idaho native (as is his character Benny), Skinner attended Georgetown, a Jesuit university. "I just remember the sense of doom anywhere I went," he recalled to Vanity Fair of his youth spent fretting over the secret of his sexuality.

A childhood of being indoctrinated into homophobic religious views might account for at least some of that early unhappiness. "You're in third grade, and they're talking about sodomites being stoned to death," Skinner told Vanity Fair. "I'm like, 'I think I'm a little young for this, but I know that if I like men, I'm going to hell.'"

In "Overcompensating," Benny – like Benito – finds his way into filmmaking. Benny also gradually starts to explore queer sexuality, though maintaining a distance from the campus' gay support group and its flirtatious leader, George (Owen Thiele), who regards the closeted Benny with a mixture of sympathy, judgment, and attraction. His adventures include stumbling into a super-charged situation involving a longtime couple played by Bowen Yang and Matt Rogers – just two of the big-name guest stars to feature in the show. (Charli xcx, who executive produces the show, appears as herself.)

Meanwhile, the rest of the people in Benny's orbit – Carmen, his sister Grace (Mary Beth Barone), and Peter (whose attempts at aggressive alpha malehood sometimes seem intended to mask gay sensibilities) – have misadventures of their own. It's not just Benny who's figuring things out.

"I feel like the villain of the show in a lot of ways is this addiction to masculinity," Skinner told Vanity Fair. "I think that everyone feels that, not just queer people."

Skinner found his way to where he is now via a career as a social media influencer. Moving into series work might be step up; Vanity Fair relayed that "Being an internet star wasn't always an easy gig, especially when it meant facing comments."

Skinner admitted, "It's so easy to take a critique personally. Somebody commented once that I had super-dry butthole lips, and I was like, 'Well, that will now plague me for the rest of my life.'"

Sounds like a plot point for a particularly amusing episode!