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“Overcompensating” deftly balances its innate absurdity with a whole lot of earnestness, creating a silly, strangely gripping rhythm that makes the show uniquely watchable.

Some might resist the work’s spiritual earnestness, but I’d say it’s an ideal time to consider more deeply our belief system.

Though it’s a comedy at its heart, the story has the bittersweet candor and moments of earnestness that one might expect from characters confronting their lives at middle age.

As a spiritually inclined, politically committed itinerant, John is Hester’s polar opposite, poking at her beliefs with the earnestness of a college student drunk on Howard Zinn.

He lent the show the same perkiness that buoyed his previous efforts, albeit with an appropriation addition of earnestness.