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Within a year, Texas authorities pinned the crime on a closeted Apache man, James Harry Reyos, even though Reyos had an alibi for the night of the killing and wasn’t in Odessa or even in Texas at the time of Father Patrick Ryan’s slaying.
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Matthew Carey, Deadline, 21 June 2025
Created by Benito Skinner, Overcompensating follows the coming-of-age story of Benny (played by Skinner), a closeted football star from Idaho, who heads to college in hopes of finding the right friends, some possible romance and ultimately himself in the process.
—Jeff Conway, Forbes.com, 20 June 2025
The breakout success of Bechdel’s 2008 memoir, Fun Home, about her closeted father’s suicide, seems only to have buttressed her sense of herself as a navel-gazer.
—Andrea Long Chu, Vulture, 16 June 2025
In the series, Skinner plays closeted jock, Benny Scanlon, who’s trying to navigate his freshman year of college.
—Vincent Perella, IndieWire, 2 June 2025
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Matthew Carey, Deadline, 21 June 2025
Created by Benito Skinner, Overcompensating follows the coming-of-age story of Benny (played by Skinner), a closeted football star from Idaho, who heads to college in hopes of finding the right friends, some possible romance and ultimately himself in the process.
—Jeff Conway, Forbes.com, 20 June 2025
The breakout success of Bechdel’s 2008 memoir, Fun Home, about her closeted father’s suicide, seems only to have buttressed her sense of herself as a navel-gazer.
—Andrea Long Chu, Vulture, 16 June 2025
In the series, Skinner plays closeted jock, Benny Scanlon, who’s trying to navigate his freshman year of college.
—Vincent Perella, IndieWire, 2 June 2025
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“Closeted.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/closeted. Accessed 9 Jul. 2025.
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