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Published 15:14 27 May 2026 GMT
Off Campus has quickly earned a reputation for being one of the most unapologetically sexual new shows on streaming, but one scene in particular has left viewers seriously divided, with one of the show's stars confirming it was "100% real".
The Prime Video series, based on The Deal by Elle Kennedy, is packed with explicit sex scenes, montages, and nudity from the very beginning.
Viewers see plenty of skin throughout the season, including a recurring pink vibrator fans of the books will recognize as “Winston”.
But it’s a locker room sequence in Episode 8 that has sparked major reactions online.
In the scene, Hannah Wells, played by Ella Bright, storms into the hockey locker room looking for her ex-boyfriend, Garrett Graham, portrayed by Belmont Cameli.
Instead of finding Garrett immediately, she walks into a room full of completely naked hockey players. The camera then briefly zooms in on several background actors’ genitals, which one TikTok user described as a “jump scare.”
The moment has now triggered debate among viewers over whether the show pushed things too far with its use of full-frontal male nudity.
The series adapts Kennedy’s bestselling hockey romance novels set at the fictional Briar University. The story follows music student Hannah agreeing to tutor star hockey player Garrett in exchange for him pretending to date her so she can make another guy jealous.
Naturally, the fake relationship eventually turns real, alongside plenty of explicit romance scenes.
The now-viral locker room moment was actually taken directly from Kennedy’s original novel.
In The Deal, Hannah internally reacts to the situation by thinking: “Penises! Sweet Jesus. Penises everywhere.
“Oh God. I’ve stumbled onto a penis convention. Big penises and small penises and fat penises and penis-shaped penises.
“It doesn’t matter which direction I move my head because everywhere I look I see penises.”
While the show remained faithful to the book’s comedic tone, some viewers questioned whether the adaptation really needed to recreate the scene so graphically.
Others argued the nudity fit naturally within a series that had already established itself as intentionally provocative and sex-positive from the opening episode.
Still, the show ultimately chose to fully commit to the joke.
“It’s a playful gag that may or may not spoil the mood for you, depending on your prude level,” the commentary noted.
The actor later opened up about filming the now-infamous scene during an appearance on the Not Skinny But Not Fat podcast.
“We had like a casting announcement go out being like, people who are just like willing to be full nude. Come in!” she claimed.
The actress also joked about how different the filming experience was from her own upbringing.
“So, I went to an all girls school,” Bright explained. “I have two sisters, and all my cousins, apart from one, are all girls.”
Compared to other famously explicit TV shows like Euphoria and Minx, some viewers felt Off Campus was still relatively restrained, though that hasn’t stopped the locker room scene from becoming one of the most talked-about moments of the season.
