‘Off Campus’ Season 2, ‘Boys of Tommen’ teased at Prime Video retreat-Off Campus Season 2 and Boys of Tommen Teased at Prime Video’s Alpine Retreat — Everything Revealed
Prime Video just gave its young adult fanbase a genuine reason to start counting down the days. On September 7 and 8, the streamer flew cast members and press out to the Bavarian Alps in Germany for a two-day event called the Obsessed Retreat: Class of ’26 — a campus-style gathering built entirely around its biggest upcoming YA titles. Off Campus was front and center, alongside first-look reveals for Boys of Tommen and a handful of other book-to-screen adaptations that have been building buzz all year. Here’s everything that came out of it.
For the full backstory on how we got to this point, our Season 2 cast changes breakdown covers the couple swap, new cast additions, and production timeline in detail, and you can catch up on the rest of our coverage from the MediaAtLife homepage. For the original reporting on the retreat itself, UPI’s full writeup of the event is worth a read too.
What the Obsessed Retreat Actually Was
The event itself was designed to feel less like a standard press junket and more like an immersive showcase of Prime Video’s entire young-adult slate in one place. Germany wasn’t a random choice of location, either — it’s where Maxton Hall – The World Between Us films, even though the show is set in England, and that series happens to be entering its third and final season. Hosting the retreat there let Prime Video tie the whole event back to one of its most established YA hits while introducing audiences to what’s coming next.
Over the two days, attendees got exclusive screenings of several upcoming titles, including Love Hypothesis (based on Ali Hazelwood’s novel), Maxton Hall, Drawn Together (adapted from Mercedes Ron’s work), You + Me — Against the World (based on Emma Green’s book series), Drive – The Pretenders, and Perfect Liars. It’s a packed slate, and the sheer scale of it says a lot about how aggressively Amazon MGM Studios is betting on the romance and YA adaptation space right now.
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Off Campus: Filming Confirmed, and a Message From the Cast
For Off Campus specifically, the retreat produced something fans have been waiting on for months: direct, on-camera confirmation from the stars themselves that Season 2 is actively in production. Ella Bright and Belmont Cameli, who play Hannah Wells and Garrett Graham, recorded a video thanking fans for how the show had been received. Cameli told fans the response to the first season had been overwhelming and thanked them for shaping what the show became, while confirming that Season 2 filming was underway and hinting there was plenty still to come. Bright added a similarly warm note, promising fans the wait would be worth it.
It’s a small moment, but a meaningful one for a fandom that’s spent the summer piecing together scraps of information from set photos and casting announcements. Having the two original leads speak directly to camera, mid-production, is about as concrete a confirmation as fans have gotten since filming began in Vancouver back in June. For more on how that production timeline has been tracking, our earlier piece on where things actually stand breaks down what’s been confirmed so far.
Setting the Record Straight on Season 2’s Storyline
Since Season 2 has been in the news cycle for months now, it’s worth using this update to clear up a detail that’s easy to get wrong. Season 2 centers on Dean Di Laurentis and Allie Hayes, played by Stephen Kalyn and Mika Abdalla — that part has been consistently confirmed by Prime Video’s own marketing. Where things get a little more nuanced is which book their story actually comes from. Dean and Allie’s relationship is the subject of The Score, the third novel in Elle Kennedy’s Off-Campus series, not the second book as it’s sometimes assumed. The second book, The Mistake, actually belongs to John Logan and Grace Ivers, whose story is still being set up on screen through India Fowler’s recent casting as Grace.
That distinction matters for anyone trying to predict where the show goes next. If Off Campus continues adapting the books roughly in order, Logan and Grace’s story — not Dean and Allie’s — should technically come first based on the source material. The fact that the show appears to be prioritizing Dean and Allie for Season 2 instead suggests the writers are making deliberate structural choices about pacing rather than following the books’ internal order exactly, which is worth keeping in mind for anyone trying to guess what Season 3 might look like.
Boys of Tommen Gets Its Moment in the Spotlight
If Off Campus was the retreat’s returning favorite, Boys of Tommen was clearly the breakout new addition. The series is based on Irish author Chloe Walsh’s bestselling novels, a six-book series that built a massive TikTok following before ever being optioned for television. The show swaps Briar University’s American college hockey setting for an Irish private school and a rugby team, following star player Johnny Kavanagh and Shannon Lynch, the new girl he becomes entangled with, as their connection develops alongside secrets both of them are hiding.
Cast members Nancy Surridge (Shannon Lynch), Conor Sánchez (Johnny Kavanagh), James O’Donoghue (Joey Lynch), and Sophie McGibbon (Aoife Molloy) shared their own video message from set in Ireland, giving fans their first real glimpse of the production in motion. Poppy Cogan, known for adapting A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder, is leading the writing and executive producing the series alongside Walsh herself, which should reassure longtime book fans that the adaptation has direct involvement from the person who created the source material. No release date has been announced yet, but the first-look images released at the retreat mark the most substantial confirmation of the project’s progress so far.
For Off Campus fans specifically, the Boys of Tommen comparison isn’t a coincidence — Prime Video has been positioning the two shows as sitting in the same lane, alongside other producers behind hits like The Summer I Turned Pretty and Twilight, as part of a broader strategy to build out a connected slate of romance-driven, book-adapted series that can cross-pollinate audiences.
The Bigger Strategy Behind the Retreat
Nicole Clemens, who heads international originals at Amazon MGM Studios, used the event to lay out the thinking behind this entire wave of programming. She described the audience for these YA titles as one that doesn’t just watch passively but engages obsessively, and said the studio’s approach going forward is being led increasingly by non-English-language international originals — a notable strategic pivot for a slate that’s included plenty of English-language hits like Off Campus itself.
That framing helps explain why a show like Maxton Hall, filmed in Germany but set in England, made sense as the symbolic host for this retreat. It’s a series that already demonstrates the exact cross-border appeal Clemens is describing, and pairing it with newer titles like Boys of Tommen and returning hits like Off Campus signals that Prime Video sees this genre — young, romantic, unapologetically emotional storytelling adapted from beloved books — as one of its most reliable growth areas going forward.
A Closer Look at the Other Titles Sharing the Spotlight
Part of what made this retreat notable wasn’t just the Off Campus and Boys of Tommen reveals — it was the sheer breadth of Prime Video’s YA slate on display. Our Fault: London also got first-look images at the event, marking the closing chapter of the English-language adaptation trilogy based on Mercedes Ron’s Culpables series, with cast members Asha Banks and Matthew Broome representing that production. That trilogy has built its own dedicated following over its run, and wrapping it up as part of the same retreat that introduced Boys of Tommen suggests Prime Video is thinking about audience handoff — giving fans of one completed romance series a natural next show to follow.
Maxton Hall – The World Between Us entering its third and final season carried its own weight at the event, given the show’s connection to the retreat’s location. It’s a reminder that not every story at this gathering was about what’s coming — some of it was about what’s wrapping up, and how the studio plans to keep those audiences engaged with newer titles once a beloved series reaches its natural end. That’s a smart, deliberate strategy for a streamer trying to build long-term loyalty in a genre known for intensely devoted, binge-happy audiences.
Rounding out the slate were Love Hypothesis, based on Ali Hazelwood’s viral novel, Drawn Together, adapted from Mercedes Ron’s other work, You + Me — Against the World from Emma Green’s book series, along with Drive – The Pretenders and Perfect Liars. Taken together, it’s a genuinely enormous investment in book-to-screen romance adaptations, and it puts Off Campus‘s success in a clearer context — it wasn’t a one-off hit that caught Prime Video by surprise, it was an early proof point for a much larger strategy the studio had already been building toward.
Why Retreats Like This Matter for Fandoms
Events like the Obsessed Retreat serve a purpose beyond generating a few days of press coverage. For fandoms that spend months between seasons piecing together information from set photos, casting leaks, and the occasional cryptic interview, a coordinated event like this gives the studio a chance to control the narrative directly — confirming what’s real, showcasing what’s coming, and giving cast members a platform to speak to fans without the filter of press junket questions designed to extract news rather than warmth.
That’s arguably the most valuable thing to come out of this particular retreat for Off Campus specifically. Bright and Cameli’s video wasn’t breaking news in the traditional sense — fans already knew filming was underway — but it reframed that information as something personal, coming directly from two actors fans have grown attached to, rather than as a line item in a press release. That distinction matters more than it might seem. A studio confirming a production timeline is routine business. Two actors thanking their audience by name and promising the wait will be worth it is the kind of moment that actually deepens a fandom’s investment heading into a long stretch with no new episodes.
What Fans Are Saying Since the Retreat
Reaction to the retreat has been largely positive across social media, with fans expressing particular appreciation for Bright and Cameli taking the time to record a direct message rather than leaving the Season 2 update to a press release alone. There’s also been noticeable excitement bleeding over from the Boys of Tommen reveal into the broader Off Campus fan community — given how heavily both shows are positioned in the same emotionally driven, book-adapted romance space, it’s not surprising that fans of one are already expressing interest in the other. That kind of crossover enthusiasm is exactly the outcome Prime Video seems to be hoping for by hosting these titles together rather than promoting them separately.
Comparing This Retreat to Season 1’s Promotional Rollout
It’s worth noting how different this Season 2 promotional moment feels compared to the run-up to Season 1’s premiere. Ahead of the first season, most of the marketing centered on trailers, individual cast interviews, and social media teasers rolled out on a fairly conventional press schedule. This retreat represents something a step beyond that — a large-scale, multi-show event designed to position Off Campus within a much bigger universe of similar titles, rather than promoting it as a standalone property competing for attention on its own.
That shift makes sense given where the show is in its lifecycle. Season 1 had to introduce audiences to Briar University from scratch and convince people to take a chance on an unproven adaptation. Season 2 doesn’t have that problem — the audience already exists, already cares, and already has strong opinions about where the story should go next. So instead of a traditional “new show” rollout, Prime Video is treating Off Campus as an established flagship title, using it to help launch newer, less proven series like Boys of Tommen by association. That’s a meaningful vote of confidence in how far the show has come in under a year, and it suggests the studio sees real value in keeping Off Campus visible even during a hiatus, rather than letting the fandom’s attention drift entirely toward newer titles.
What This Means for the Off Campus Timeline
Beyond the feel-good cast message, this retreat is a useful data point for anyone trying to track when Season 2 might actually arrive. Filming being confirmed as still underway in early September lines up with earlier reporting that production began in June and was expected to wrap sometime between September and October. That timeline hasn’t shifted, which is reassuring for anyone worried the show might be facing delays — sometimes these kinds of promotional events double as a subtle way for studios to reassure fans that a production is on schedule, and that appears to be exactly what happened here.
It also suggests Prime Video is already thinking about marketing Season 2 well before it’s ready to drop a trailer. Getting Bright and Cameli in front of cameras months before the season is likely to premiere is the kind of early goodwill-building that studios use to keep a fandom engaged through a long gap between seasons — not unlike the strategy behind the show’s earlier casting reveals, which were rolled out steadily throughout the summer rather than all at once.
How This Fits Into the Show’s Bigger Picture
Zooming out, this retreat is a good reminder of just how much momentum Off Campus has carried since its May premiere. The show didn’t just become a hit — it became part of Amazon MGM Studios’ flagship strategy for an entire genre, sharing a stage with established international successes like Maxton Hall and next-generation adaptations like Boys of Tommen. That’s a meaningfully bigger spotlight than most freshman shows get heading into their second season, and it says a lot about how quickly the studio moved from “cautiously optimistic” to “building an entire slate around this.”
For fans, the most useful takeaway is probably the simplest one: filming is confirmed to be on track, the original leads are still fully engaged with the fandom even as the story’s focus shifts to Dean and Allie, and the studio’s broader strategy suggests Off Campus is going to keep getting significant promotional attention as Season 2 approaches, rather than being left to market itself quietly. If you want to keep up with the day-by-day news as it comes, our earlier roundups on everything we know so far and why we’re already losing our minds over it are good places to keep track of everything that’s been confirmed so far.
What’s Still Unknown
Even with this update, a few key details remain unconfirmed. There’s still no official premiere date for Off Campus Season 2, and nothing from the retreat changed that — Bright and Cameli’s message was warm and encouraging, but it stopped short of any specific timing beyond confirming filming is ongoing. The pop-star cameo teased earlier this summer by Bright and Mika Abdalla also went unmentioned at the retreat, so that mystery remains exactly as open as it was before. And Boys of Tommen still doesn’t have a release date either, despite the new first-look images — Prime Video appears to be treating both shows’ actual premiere dates as separate announcements still to come.
We’ll keep updating as more details land. In the meantime, if you’re catching up on the cast dynamics heading into the new season, our profile on Belmont Cameli, Ella Bright, and Josh Heuston’s career paths is worth a read, and if you’re wondering how Dean and Allie are shaping up as Season 2’s central couple, we broke that down separately in how much do you like them as a couple.
The Bottom Line
The Obsessed Retreat gave Off Campus fans exactly what they’d been asking for all summer: direct confirmation from the cast that Season 2 is real, in progress, and on track. It also gave the show a prominent seat at the table alongside Prime Video’s biggest upcoming YA bets, including the highly anticipated Boys of Tommen, reinforcing just how central this genre has become to the studio’s broader strategy. There’s still no release date for either show, and plenty of specifics remain unconfirmed — but for a fandom that’s spent months working off casting announcements and vague teasers, a heartfelt video message straight from Hannah and Garrett themselves is about as reassuring a signal as it gets that the wait really is almost over.
