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Writer Louisa Levy’s journey with Off Campus has been long.
The showrunner was sent the open writing assignment and read Elle Kennedy’s new adult romance novels that serves as the show’s source material. She couldn’t put them down. “They’re so incredibly readable. There’s so many books that I read and love, but I don’t see a way into them for a TV show,” Levy tells The Hollywood Reporter on a Zoom from the Off Campus production office in Vancouver.
The writer, along with the rest of the cast and crew, returned to Canada to begin shooting the show’s second season, which was announced months before its premiere on Prime Video. “For these books, I could see what I would do with the TV show version of them,” she continues.
The writer was drawn to the idea of telling a more mature romance — the books are technically “new adult,” the literary genre centered around college students and those in their early 20s. “I love YA, but I loved the prospect of being able to tell a romance that dives into deeper things,” she says. “[A story] that dives into Hannah’s experience with sexual assault, that dives into Garrett’s experience with domestic abuse, but also [does it] in a way that still at the end of the day feels light and fun.”
