- Network: NBC
- Series Premiere Date: Sep 23, 2010
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It's just a little novelty, much like the plastic body fluids its characters are selling.
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Though American tastes are mocked here, too, laughing at your own group doesn't necessarily excuse laughing at others.
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The humor is crude and risque and often at the expense of Indian culture. I could have lived without the defecation jokes. To be fair, the writers don't give America a pass.
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One day it might evolve into a sharp, irreverent satire about consumerism and prejudice that isn't demeaning and doesn't punt to cheap jokes about Indian names, Indian accents, and Indian food. Call us when it gets there.
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Not offensive. Just not particularly fresh or compelling. Long-term, "Outsourced" may want to become an Indian cousin of "Community," with diverse off-center people whose eccentricities fuel jokes. That's fine. The question may be whether, in carefully omitting most things that could offend, the show has enough left to endure.
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Call me culturally insensitive, but I wasn't nearly as offended by the stereotyping in Outsourced--which is based on a movie of the same name that I've never seen--as I was by the fact that most of the resulting jokes were so lame.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 68 out of 97
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Mixed: 18 out of 97
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Negative: 11 out of 97
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Mar 24, 2011
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Oct 21, 2010
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Oct 2, 2010