Off Campus quickly skated to the top of pop-culture consciousness when it premiered on May 13 on Prime Video, with the streaming adaptation of Elle Kennedy's popular Briar University books winning TV fans over with its lovable characters, relatable conflicts and steamy, R-rated romance.
Across eight episodes, the "New Adult" series followed the romantic connections and athletic antics of college hockey players and the women they love, specifically the fake-dating arrangement between music major Hannah Wells (Ella Bright) and Briar Hawks star center Garrett Graham (Belmont Cameli): Hannah will tutor Garrett to ensure that his grades are high enough to remain on the hockey team, while he will help her drum up a little jealousy in her real crush, Justin (Josh Heuston).
Unsurprisingly, the kiddos start catching feelings for real, but throughout they have to deal with their own respective interpersonal dramas, from Garrett's familiar issues with his hockey-legend dad Phil (Steve Howey) to Hannah's lingering trauma after experiencing sexual assault in high school.
All of those plot points come to a dramatic head in the season's final episode (but don't worry there's already a picked-up second season to look forward to), so here's everything that went down both on the ice and off at the end of Off Campus season one.
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Warning: Spoilers ahead for Off Campus season one.
Do Hannah and Garrett end up together?
Yes, Hannah Wells and Garrett Graham ultimately do end up together at the end of Off Campus season one, but not before a few dramatic setbacks.
The eighth and final episode of the season, entitled "The Line Change," board-crashes both of Hannah and Garrett's individual storylines: During a heated match between Briar University and their rival school, Garrett realizes that the player he's facing off against on the ice is actually Hannah's high school rapist, Aaron Delaney (Quinten James). Horrified and furious, Garrett beats the pulp out of Aaron right there during the big game, which leads to his suspension from the team (and the replacement of Antonio Cipriano's Logan as Hawks captain) and him splitting up with Hannah, as he's afraid that he shares the same violent nature as his father.
After a change of heart, though, Garrett shows up to the big pop-music showcase that Hannah has been working toward all season long. She performs "Girl That I Am," a brand-new song she wrote about overcoming the pain of her past assault and moving on via her romantic feelings for Garrett ("I had to trust to feel again / I had to let you in to finally see / I am the girl that I am / Because of the girl I used to be." Following her performance, which garners her a second place standing in the competition, Garrett waits for her in the parking lot, and the duo reconcile their relationship.
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Belmont Cameli and Ella Bright star as Garrett Graham and Hannah Wells in Off CampusPrime Video
What happened between Allie and Dean?
s Off Campus fans already know, Hannah and Garrett's romance wasn't the only heated hockey connection taking place in season one: their pals Allie Hayes (Mika Abdalla) and Dean Di Laurentis (Stephen Kalyn) were entangled in their own secret affair for much of the first season after Allie broke up with her on-and-off-again boyfriend Sean McCall (Riley Davis).
Allie and Dean's hook-ups started casually enough but clearly grew to something more substantial by season's end, which seemingly spooked the former—to slow things down in their relationship and maintain their friends-with-benefits status, Allie told Dean that they should sleep with other people. Realizing the extent of his feelings for Allie, Dean decides against hooking up with another girl, but Allie ends up having sex with Hunter Davenport (Charlie Evans), a hockey player who just happens to be Dean's biggest rival and newest teammate.
The reveal of not only Allie's one-night stand but also the identity of her partner prompts a physical fight between the two men at a bar while Allie looks on in shock.
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Stephen Kalyn and Mika Abdalla play hook-up buddies in Prime Video's Off Campus.Prime Video
Is the ending of 'Off Campus' the show different from the book?
Yes, though the majority of Hannah and Garrett's romance stays faithful to Elle Kennedy's 2015 book The Deal, there are slight deviations between page and screen. For example, in the novel, that violent fight between Garrett and Aaron doesn't actually take place on the ice in the middle of the hockey game. In fact, Aaron isn't even a hockey player in the book, and the smackdown actually occurs between Garrett and one of Aaron's friends in a parking lot after the latter trash-talks Hannah following an exhibition game.
Therefore, Hannah and Garrett's break-up also plays out differently on page. Rather than splitting because of that on-ice fight, what happens in the novel is that Garrett's father manipulates Hannah into breaking up with him by threatening to cut off financial support for Garrett’s college tuition if they stay together. However, Garrett doesn't need his famous father's money to continue his education, as he will gain access to a trust fund from his grandfather on his 21st birthday, and the couple resumes their romance.
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Belmont Cameli, Stephen Kalyn and Antonio Cipriano star as hockey players on the fictional Briar Hawks team in Off Campus.Prime Video
Is there an alternate ending to 'Off Campus' season one?
Yes, along with some tweaks and changes made in adapting the story from page to screen, there was reportedly an entirely different ending planned for Off Campus season one. Series creator Louisa Levy revealed to PEOPLEmagazine that it was "not always the plan" to reveal that Allie hooked up with Hunter in the finale, but the show's writing team "got excited about it because it allowed us to tee up potential future seasons that we might be able to explore."
"We had a different ending that I can't disclose, because it is a spoiler," Levy told the outlet, adding that the reveal not only drummed up tension between Hunter and Dean but also served as a way "tee up a little bit of Dean's backstory that we might be able to get into in future seasons as well." (Things haven't been confirmed yet but it seems all but guaranteed that Off Campus season 2 will have Allie and Dean serve as romantic leads and will follow the plotlines of their book, The Score.)
"Hunter is in The Score. He is in that book, just in a small way," Levy explained. "Being able to pull from the later books and maybe use those characters to build out the initial four books was a fun opportunity."
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