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Off Campus Stars Ella Bright, Belmont Cameli Present at 2026 MTV VMAs

MTV brought a small piece of Briar U to the 2026 Video Music Awards stage. Ella Bright and Belmont Cameli, the stars of Prime Video’s hit hockey romance series Off Campus, announced rising pop singer Sienna Spiro’s performance Sunday night. As soon as the pair took the stage, the crowd went wild. Bright had to briefly pause because the crowd was cheering so loud. Both actors hit the red carpet before the show, sporting chic sunglasses. Bright went with a glamorous, edgy all-black look, while Cameli went with a cool denim look. Bright and Cameli have both been busy all summer filming season two of Off Campus, based on Elle Kennedy’s book series of the same name. The series, which premiered in May, reached 36 million viewers worldwide over its first 12 days of release, according to figures shared by the Amazon-owned streamer. It comes in as Prime Video’s third largest series debut over that amount of time, behind The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power and Fallout. The book series Off Campus, …

How the TV Series ‘Off Campus’ Embraces Soft Masculinity

Published by Jenni Sidey

Spoiler Alert: The discussion below includes spoilers about the characters and relationships featured in the Prime Video series Off Campus. For decades, romantic stories have relied on the emotionally unavailable man and the woman who patiently waits for him to open up. Often, she adjusts herself around his wounds, excuses hurtful behavior because of his troubled past, and desperately tries to fix him. Male characters can be controlling, dismissive, or even cruel, yet their actions are frequently softened by backstories that encourage audiences to forgive them and view their emotional unavailability as depth rather than dysfunction. The Prime Video series Off Campus, adapted from Elle Kennedy’s best-selling novels, has a refreshing take on masculinity. Set at Briar University and centered on a group of college hockey players and their relationships, the series offers male characters who are confident and attractive without romanticizing emotional unavailability. Vulnerability, empathy, and emotional attunement drive many of the series’ most captivating moments. Off Campus offers a compelling example of what many people refer to as “soft masculinity,” with male characters …

What “Off Campus” Teaches Us About Healthy Masculinity

Published by Jenni Sidey

“We don’t just need more role models. We need visible, authentic, relatable ones” —Tim Campbell At first glance, Amazon Prime’s hit show Off Campus might look like every other college sports drama, with its high-energy blend of athletes, parties, and romance. But look a little closer, and something much more interesting is happening. The show doesn’t just deliver love stories and hockey. It offers explicit examples of positive masculinity, where ‘no’ is respected without question, male friends talk to each other about their feelings, and vulnerability isn’t seen as a weakness. At a time when expectations around toxic masculinity and the so-called ‘manosphere’ are increasingly celebrated by young men, Off Campus offers a refreshingly grounded alternative, where masculinity is built on respect, humour and connection. Perceptions of what it means to be masculine are often linked to rigid behaviours and traits such as strength, dominance, and rejecting emotions. As a result, men and boys can feel under pressure to follow these rules and behave a certain way, meaning their attitudes and behaviours are driven by …

Will there be an Off Campus season 2?

Published by Daniella Wilson

Prime Video’s romantic drama Off Campus brings a much-loved series of romance novels to the screen – and as readers will already know, the story doesn’t end after the season 1 finale. Instead, Elle Kennedy’s source material explores several other heartwarming romances, with characters reappearing across entries in a style not entirely dissimilar to Bridgerton. Whether this TV adaptation will have the same long legs as Netflix’s juggernaut hit remains to be seen, but the immediate future of Off Campus has been confirmed – with hopes for a full adaptation of Kennedy’s second novel, The Mistake. Belmont Cameli (Until Dawn) and Ella Bright (Malory Towers) lead the cast of the first season, which is available to stream now on Prime Video, but signs indicate that they could take a supporting role in the next instalment. If you’re intrigued to know what’s next, read on for everything we know so far about Off Campus season 2. Will there be an Off Campus season 2? Yes! Off Campus was renewed for a second season in February 2026, …

The Canvas Panic on Campus

Published by José Betancourt

A student emailed me yesterday, panicked, in the early afternoon. She was worried about her final project in my university course, which was due at midnight. By the time I saw the email, three hours had elapsed. By the time we got on Zoom to discuss the matter, another 90 minutes had been spent. That’s when I learned about the outage. Canvas, an online service used by as many as 40 percent of North American colleges, among them Washington University in St. Louis, where I teach, had gone down globally—victim to a ransomware attack. Just like ride-share apps replaced the physical act of hailing a cab, “courseware” such as Canvas has replaced more analog systems at almost every college and university, which now use the tool to run classrooms, manage assignments, and handle grading. When Canvas goes down, college classes cease to operate. My heart sank because already I could anticipate a million little irritations that would add up to a huge headache for everyone, as students worried about how to submit their work, whether …

Where Are All the Campus Protests?

Published by Daniella Wilson

The events of the past three months seem almost perfectly engineered to spark campus unrest. In January, mass-deportation operations led to the brazen killing of U.S. citizens at the hands of masked immigration agents. In February, the Environmental Protection Agency declared that it would no longer regulate greenhouse-gas emissions. A few weeks later, the Trump administration joined forces with Israel to launch an attack on Iran without congressional approval. One might expect left-leaning college students to have practically started a revolution. But campuses across the country—places where, just two years ago, students occupied buildings and colonized the quad to protest Israel’s war against Hamas—are strangely silent. These days, those same students mostly head to class. The extent of the change is jarring. David Sengthay, a Stanford senior and the head of the undergraduate-student senate, told me that protests typified the university’s history, up to and including his first two years in Palo Alto. But by the time he returned as a junior, in fall 2024, something was different. “My class is the last class to …

At 88, peter campus Swaps Youthful Ego for Late-Style Modesty

Published by José Betancourt

A death stare greets me as I enter peter campus’s exhibition at The Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C. A man looks right at me, dead on—or at the camera, really. His harsh eyebrows, thick yet articulated, add to the intensity. I check the video’s title and learn that it’s a death stare of a different kind: Head of a Man with Death on His Mind (1978). The man swallows occasionally, blinks infrequently. Set against a white background, his face is nevertheless lit as if in chiaroscuro, recorded in black-and-white. Is he thinking about his own death, that of a loved one, or just general grief? At one point, his eyes gaze downward, as if he is looking toward hell or the grave, or is simply sad. It’s oddly arresting, given that nothing much is going on. Source link

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