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This article contains potential spoilers for future seasons of “Off Campus.” Proceed accordingly.<\/p>\n
If you’ve gotten attached to charming Briar University quarterback Beau Maxwell\u00a0(Khobe Clarke) from Prime Video’s “Off Campus,” then we’ve got some bad news.<\/p>\n
Prime\u00a0dropped the complete first season of “Off Campus” in May<\/a>, and the popularity of the source novels helped almost\u00a0immediately push it to the top of the streamer’s watch list.\u00a0Those eight episodes were based on author Elle Kennedy’s “The Deal,” which is the first in a five-book series. Some indicators give us reason to suspect\u00a0“Off Campus” Season 2<\/a>\u00a0may skip ahead and cover events\u00a0from the third book, “The Score.”<\/p>\n In “The Score,” Beau dies\u00a0in a car accident on the way back from visiting his grandmother in Wisconsin.\u00a0Some fans are already having trouble coming to grips with Beau’s impending doom, but Kennedy expected the audience to fall hard for the character and the actor who plays him. In an interview with Us Weekly<\/a> published the day after “Off Campus” Season 1 dropped, Kennedy noted,\u00a0“Khobe, he’s such a great actor and he’s the sweetest guy. He had a lot of the little comedic bits in the season.”<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n Off Campus Episode 2 cleverly foreshadows Beau’s fate<\/p>\n Readers of the “Off\u00a0Campus” novels aren’t the only ones who might anticipate Beau’s death in future seasons; there’s a bit of foreshadowing in Episode 2, “The Practice.” Dean (Stephen Kalyn) and Beau throw a combination Halloween\/birthday party and\u00a0dress as “Top Gun” main characters Maverick (Tom Cruise)<\/a> and Goose (Anthony Edwards); Dean is Maverick and Beau comes as his best pal Goose. Goose’s tragic death in the original 1986 film provides lots of emotional fuel for the 2022 sequel, “Top\u00a0Gun: Maverick,” and there are some clear similarities between the Maverick\/Goose saga and events of “The Score.”\u00a0 Beau and Goose are both victims of an accident involving someone very close to them, and Maverick and Dean each go through major changes after the death of their best friend. The experience grounds and humbles\u00a0Dean\u00a0and\u00a0Maverick, making both men\u00a0more thoughtful and tempering their arrogance a bit.<\/p>\n