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Outsourced (2010)
Funny and a little misleading.
Outsourced is a good concept and actually quite a funny show. The leading actors do a great job except for the asst. manager, who i personally just don't like. the humor is really something new and a different take at outsourcing is very nice. The variety of characters is great, on one hand we have the nice and easy going American boss while on the other is the annoying and mischievous Indian Asst.Manager. There is the flirting Manmeet who just almost never lets you down in the comedy department and the shy and traditional Madhuri. The show scores on the acting. Also the episodes are written very well and each episode advances the serial.The music is good and the selected Indian songs fit the shot.
But of course there are things things wrongly shown like the Todd explaining the American dating culture to Manmeet who doesn't know about it . There's nobody in the Indian cities all who don't know about western dating culture and frankly they are in fact catching up to it. There are many more such minute things.
The only thing which is very bothering are the sets that completely depict untrue surroundings.I'm an Indian so believe me you will not find a call center, especially operated by a western companies, right beside a local street filled with cramped buildings, hawkers, roadside hair dressers etc. And even if by mistake when it is beside a local street, the street is never like that.Almost all the software companies, call centers etc. are situated in IT parks with fantastic infrastructures and 5 star hotels and you have to in fact many times travel a kilometer or two to reach the surroundings which the show is trying to show and failing miserably.
And BTW those people that say the characters are stereotypes are wrong. I would like them to just look around a bit in their lives and not see such people.
I am giving 7 stars for this wonderful show .May the next season bring us good sets.