‘Off Campus’: What Happens in Dean & Allie’s Book? Your Guide to ‘The Score’
What To Know
- Off Campus Season 1 adapts much of Elle Kennedy’s The Deal and a significant portion of The Score, Dean and Allie’s book.
- The show introduces new plotlines and changes the timeline compared to the books, but includes quite a few book scenes.
- Swooon is breaking down how much book material the show has left to cover in Dean and Allie’s story.
Even readers of Elle Kennedy’s hockey romance series weren’t expecting Off Campus Season 1 to include so much Dean (Stephen Kalyn) and Allie (Mika Abdalla). The TV adaptation spends its first season depicting almost the entirety of Kennedy’s The Deal, which centers on Garrett (Belmont Cameli) and Hannah (Ella Bright). It also wades into Dean and Allie’s book, covering a good portion of The Score. (Warning: Off Campus Season 1 spoilers ahead!)
While Hannah and Garrett are falling in love, their friends Dean and Allie start secretly hooking up — earlier than they do in the books. The finale sees Allie wanting to make their arrangement more casual by giving them both an assignment to sleep with someone else. Dean can’t do it, and he’s in the middle of telling Allie that he wants a relationship when everything goes wrong. Dean finds out that Allie hooked up with Hunter (Charlie Evans), who Dean (for reasons not fully explained) hates. It’s a twist that only exists in the show universe.
It begs the question: How does The Score end? How much book material is left to adapt? Do Dean and Allie end up together? Swooon is breaking down The Score‘s plot and ending below.
How much of The Score is in Off Campus Season 1?
Season 1 gets pretty far into The Score, though it leaves some plot points out. The book begins with Allie breaking up with her longtime boyfriend, Sean, when he isn’t supportive of her pursuing acting. (The show gives Dean and Allie a little bit of history before she officially breaks up with Sean.) Garrett offers Allie his off-campus house to avoid Sean, where she finds Dean. They sleep together right away, unlike the show.
Dean immediately becomes fixated on Allie, but she repeatedly rejects his offers to hook up again. Dean finds that he can’t get it up with any other girl, just like the show. Allie also tells Sean that she hooked up with someone else, which lines up with what Sean knows in Season 1.
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Here’s where the show starts to deviate from the book. In The Score, Dean and Allie are grappling with other problems while their situationship drama is going on. Dean’s high school coach, Frank O’Shea, takes a job at Briar. O’Shea has it out for Dean since he broke up with his daughter years ago. He decides to force Dean into coaching a middle school hockey team, the Hastings Hurricanes. (Remember the local kids team Logan threw the fundraiser for in the show? The Hurricanes!)
Allie’s trying to figure out what kind of acting jobs to pursue. Her agent encourages her to audition for a sitcom, but she’s drawn to a serious work after performing in a dramatic play. Her dad, who’s based in Brooklyn, also has secondary-progressive multiple sclerosis, and his health is declining. All of those details weren’t included in Season 1.
Dean and Allie become closer as friends over a few weeks, then she agrees to start hooking up with Dean again in secret. They carpool to New York together for Thanksgiving, like they do in Season 1. During the drive, the book also sees Dean open up about his history with Miranda, O’Shea’s daughter.
Dean and Miranda agreed to break up when they left for college, but Miranda wasn’t totally on board with that. She initiated sex with Dean when he was drunk, so Dean broke up with her afterward. Miranda threatened suicide after, so her dad pulled her out of school and has hated Dean ever since. That’s why Dean avoids relationships. All of that has yet to be broached in the show, even though Dean and Allie do spend Thanksgiving together in Season 1.
Also unlike the show, Dean meets Allie’s disapproving dad during Thanksgiving, and they spent the rest of the break in Dean’s penthouse. The show moves Thanksgiving up earlier in the sequence of events. It also goes in a different direction by having Allie decide they should sleep with other people and by having her go through with it.
Do Dean and Allie end up together?
When they return from Thanksgiving, Sean finds out about Allie and Dean. He drunkenly shows up at her dorm and calls her a “disease-ridden whore.” Devastated, Allie asks Hannah to call Dean, making their relationship known for the first time. When Dean arrives, Allie says she’s done with being casual, and Dean says that they’re officially in a relationship.
Their relationship goes well from there (for a while). They say they love each other. Allie meets Dean’s family, while her own dad tells her that people with privileged backgrounds like Dean crumble when life gets hard. It proves to be true when Dean’s friend, Beau Maxwell, dies in a car crash. Dean falls into a drug-fueled spiral, withdrawing from Allie. Dean missing Allie’s play is the final straw for her to break up with him.
Dean gets kicked off the hockey team after a drug test, and he tries to apologize to Allie, but she decides she needs to be without a boyfriend for a while. Dean makes amends with the people his behavior impacted and decides to abandon a law career for coaching. Dean winds up taking care of Allie’s dad after a fall, earning his approval. Allie decides to get back together with Dean and their futures line up: She’s going to film an HBO show in New York, while Dean coaches a private school’s hockey team in the city.
Needless to say, the Off Campus show has quite a bit of book material left to work through. Not to mention, there’s the whole new plotline with Hunter. How do you think Allie and Hunter’s hookup with impact their book storyline? Let us know your theories in the comments below!
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