It might not be my place to write a review for a series I’ve dropped but the elephant in the room has to be addressed which is CULTURAL APPROPRIATION. Sorry I’ve nothing against the rest of the show but this very scene about those guys disguised as Sikhs doesn’t sit right with me. There is a fine line between okay comedy and inappropriate comedy and that scene really didn’t handle that well. Something is funny ONLY till a smile sustains on the face and when that smile goes away and starts developing into more of a frown then we should know that there is something not right here.

This series is packed with ridiculous comedy and is really not meant to be taken seriously which is okay. But even if we keep that in mind, I still cannot see how that scene is okay. The outfit represents the Sikh community which is a really respected community in India who are hailed for their bravery, morality and spirituality. And to use the same outfits in a scene like that made me feel uneasy. I don’t even know if the people involved in this knew what those outfit stood for and what were they going for with this but here it is. COMIC RELIEF AND IGNORANCE CANNOT JUSTIFY CULTURAL APPROPRIATION. It is too great of an issue. There has been several cases in the past where people have gotten in serious trouble for such depictions of various cultural. If a show or a film has to add some form of an element of a particular culture they should be extra careful with it. And with comedy, the carefulness becomes two fold because using an element of a culture for comedic purposes can be received as mockery and insensitivity. The people involved in the comedy should know better about that particular community /religion/culture and do their research and then should deliver it respectfully. Many comedians around the world know how much guts it takes to joke about religion and a particular community or culture and very few venture into these territories and come out as winners.

It is one thing to have a sense of humour and joke about yourself or your own religion or community or culture because you’re a part of it(however here too one has to be careful) and another for people belonging to other communities/religion/cultures to joke about another community/religion/culture. I shouldn’t have gone this far with it but it needed to be addressed. And so many people who are Indian are appreciating this inclusion which i can see to a degree why but their reason still doesn’t justify this form of cultural appropriation. I’m saying this in hopes of preventing any such depictions in the future as much as possible. Thank you for hearing me out:)