10 Big ‘Off Campus’ Season 1 Book Differences: From Main Couple To The Hockey Teammates’ Lives & Love Stories
Season 1 of Off Campus has skated onto Prime Video, based largely off of Elle Kennedy’s first book in the series of the same name, The Deal, which follows Hannah Wells (Ella Bright) and Garrett Graham (Belmont Cameli) who make a fake dating arrangement.
Hints at the following books — John Logan’s (Antonio Cipriano) book The Mistake, Dean’s (Stephen Kalyn) romance The Score and John Tucker’s (Jalen Thomas Brooks) love story The Goal — are apparent in the show as it works more characters into the spotlight via the lively ensemble. Each book isolates to its main couple’s first person point of views, alternating back and forth, but character still feature across those books.
Find a list of standout changes made between The Deal and Season 1 of the show below.
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Hannah’s Songwriting
Image Credit: Liane Hentscher/ Prime © AMAZON CONTENT SERVICES LLC The way Hannah participates in the singing competition for her scholarship unfolds a bit differently in the books, with a few more characters providing obstacles to her process. Cass, the vocalist she is paired with in the book, is not in the show, and neither is Mary Jane, the songwriter whose composition Hannah and Cass are set to perform. Cass is, in a way, rolled into Justin Kohl, Josh Heuston’s character, who is a songwriter and lead singer of a band.
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Justin Kohl, Frontman vs. Football Player
Image Credit: Liane Hentscher / Prime © Amazon Content Services LLC In The Deal, Justin Kohl is a football player who Hannah has eyes for. Thus, the competition for her is between athletes. The show makes Justin more of a foil to Garrett as a singer songwriter. He also has a fraternity connection to Beauh Maxwell (Khobe Clark) in the show. In some ways, Justin has elements of Cass Donovan, the annoying singer Hannah is paired with for her competition in the books, because Garrett misnames Justin on purpose. Hannah also had an ex in the books, Devon, who was musically inclined.
RELATED: ‘Off Campus’ Star Josh Heuston Breaks Down Musician Justin Kohl: “I Wanted To Give Him A Heart”
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Hannah’s Multiple Jobs – Malone’s and Della’s Combined
Image Credit: Liane Hentscher / Prime Video In Elle Kennedy’s first book, Hannah has two separate jobs, one at Della’s Café and one at Malone’s, the bar. In the show, those two venues have been combined in the show with Della running Malone’s both morning and night.
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Jules
Image Credit: Liane Hentscher / Prime © Amazon Content Services LLC Logan’s non-binary sibling is completely new to the show, a creation of showrunner Louisa Levy’s. They run Fifth Line, the Briar U hockey gossip account, which also does not play a role in Kennedy’s The Deal. In The Mistake, Logan only has a brother, so he is not a middle child, as Antonio Cipriano stressed when talking to Deadline about connecting to that aspect of his character.
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Hannah Kisses Logan Instead of Dean
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The Rape
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The Annual Maxwell-Di Laurentis Combo Birthday
Image Credit: Liane Hentscher / Prime In The Deal, Dean and Beau celebrate their birthdays separately. The combo party in the show provides some great moments from needle drop insertion as nods to the books and a scene that first hints at Dean and Allie’s romance which takes place in Elle Kennedy’s book The Score. The costume party also foreshadows several events from the books if you look at certain costumes.
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Logan’s Mom in Rehab vs. Dad
Image Credit: Amazon Content Services LLC In The Mistake, it’s Logan’s dad who is in rehab, not his mom. The mom change becomes apparent in the Thanksgiving episode of the show, “The Cold Turkey” when Jules wants to visit their mom on the holiday and bring food.
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The Breakup
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Carter St. James V
A surprise character enters the end of Season 1 of Off Campus, played by Charlie Evans (Paradise). For those who have not watched yet, this entry will remain spoiler free.
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