Remember how apprehensive we were when this show (Aliens in America) started and how a few episodes managed to change our perception and we actually started liking it? [Previous UD post on Aliens in America]

Bye bye Raja
img: via TV Guide

Apparently, the premise of this show was not too popular with mainstream Americans and so the television channel, CW, has canceled this show. [link] [thanks Desi Manifesto]

A pity, since I actually liked this show. The last episode I watched featured the cultural gap between DBDs and ABDs. Raja takes a liking to the a Muslim girl, one of the few in their little town, who is the same age as Raja. Ultimately even though they like each other and the girl’s family loves Raja, their relationship does not work out because the girl wants to see other men, something which Raja disapproves of.

I thought ‘Aliens..’ covered the cultural gap between two desi people of the same age and same religion, but raised in different cultures, pretty well. This is something I’m not too used to seeing even on desi entertainment outlets, where one party is depicted as the victim and the other as the victimizer. Ultimately, the two break up realizing that their cultural difference are too vast for them to be happy in this relationship. The breakup was mutual and mature, without too much of the histrionics that we’re used to seeing on desi shows and movies.

“Aliens…” was the one show that did a fairly decent job of covering the differences between Western and Eastern cultures, without exoticizing the latter. We will miss “Aliens in America”.

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