Anybody watch the premier of Outsourced?

Cafe Society
41

Really, really bad.

Flat and boring, timid and stupid, insipid and gross.

See, the problem here is the state of political correctness today. You can’t have an American white guy being flustered by ethnic minorities. The whole show is walking on eggshells. The only way this show’s scenario could work is (A) Have an all-Indian cast, and play up Muslim vs. Hindu, (B) Be an animated show, or © Have the lead guy be upper-class British, and really play up the neo-colonial class warfare.

Otherwise, it’s just awkward. It’s too polite to be edgy, and edgy is really the only thing that could save this mess. Unless it was very, very funny.

And it isn’t. It’s just lame.

42

Watched some of it, seen enough. Really terrible.

43

I loved the movie but wasn’t too inspired by the promos for the show.

Didn’t the Brits try to launch their own version of Outsourced with Sanjeev Bhaskar (from Goodness Gracious Me…one of my fave sketch comedy shows) in the title role? I think I’d rather watch that one.

44

I just watched it an hour ago. I’ve been spending a lot of time with South Asians lately, so I was really looking forward to some cultural humor.

But, wow, this was weak. And insulting. I wasn’t expecting culturally nuanced humor, but this was all hit-you-over-the-head-with-a-sledgehammer-lowest-common-denominator humor. Hey, watch out! Indian food will make you shit for five days! That’s funny? What kind of sophomoric humor is this? BTW, cows are holy here!

I’ll give it a few more episodes. I want it to do well, but I wasn’t at all impressed with the first episode. Pretty fucking stupid.

45

There’s a movie? I’m out of the loop…

46

They have some of that fish-out-water stuff in the movie, but the actor is less “Hollywoody” and was really personable, so it wasn’t that bad.

Although I have to say, a lot of that stuff makes me laugh only because it’s pretty true. Going there with parents has always insulated me from India’s harsher aspects, but I’ve seen plenty of Western people having very very public breakdowns from the sensory overload and I have no doubt that if left to my own devices I would have a complete freakout. My mom and dad usually take pity and help people out (except the dude who kicked a beggar child).

47

Loved the movie. Really disappointed in the pilot episode.
But I’ll give it a few more shots if it stays in this time slot.

48

I liked the movie, and thought the show was good enough to continue watching, but not as fantastic as, say, 30 Rock. Few things are, though.

49

I watched most of it on Hulu tonight and thought it had some good moments. But I kept letting reality slip in…how many days has this company gone without having a call center staff at all taking orders? The day Todd walks into the office to find everyone gone, then at least two days travel time, and then no one is actually taking any calls when he gets there…the company should be just about bankrupt just from the downtime!