Opinion on the Series Outsource

Has everyone already watched the final episode of Outsource? What did you think of the ending?

Honestly, the last time a domestic series kept me in such suspense and anticipation was Crystalline.

Maybe I’m overanalyzing, but the character posters featuring quotes from the German philosopher Friedrich Schiller seem to provide a key to understanding the protagonist.

A quick look at Schiller’s main philosophical ideas suggests that the main character (Yankovsky) embodies the concept of the «beautiful soul»—a person who acts morally not because of external pressures, but because their emotions and reason are harmoniously united.

But whose morality does Yankovsky’s character follow? Public morality? No. Only his own. The very morality of Nietzsche’s Übermensch—a person free from all external constraints.

Looking closely at each character, it becomes clear that this story isn’t really about prison and the death penalty but about how each character’s life was outsourced. For one, the determining external force was courtesans, for another—money, for a third—his wife, for a fourth—his mother, and so on.

There are also echoes of the so-called «Dostoevskian themes»—eternal existential questions, the torment of choice, the tuning of one’s moral compass, the dilemma of choosing between bad and worse, and so on.

All in all, you should watch it. It’s better to see it once than to endlessly dissect it, diving deeper and deeper into philosophical speculation.

Maybe none of this is actually there, and I’m just seeing what I want to see.

Anyway, I’d love to hear your thoughts on Outsource and its finale!