Death Of A Telemarketer Review: Call Center Comedy Is A Major Dud
Telemarketers, and their profession as a whole, hinge on a certain brand of dishonesty, as the job demands them to invent creative ways to make potential marks stay on the line. The competition is brutal, the work environment almost always borders on toxic, and the world of high-pressure cold calls is overwhelmingly cutthroat. These realistic aspects of the telemarketing industry are captured well in Khaled Ridgeway’s Death of a Telemarketer, which is otherwise a bland comedy that elicits a few scattered laughs. Stretched beyond its limits, Death of a Telemarketer is never funny enough, and its hostage plot makes as much sense as a nonsensical cold call.
Ace telemarketer Kasey (Lamorne Morris) is unrepentantly ahead of the game, an all-star at Telewin, selling phone and internet connections to unsuspecting customers in any crooked way that garners a sale. An unsympathetic character from the get-go, Kasey is hell-bent on winning Telewin’s close sale content in order to win a hefty commission, which he plans to use to pay off his payday loans. After the other telemarketers are urged (almost threatened) to adopt the Kasey method, newbie employee Barry (Woody McClain) surpasses Kasey considerably. Desperate to make this work, Kasey stays up late and decides to take a stab at the forbidden Do Not Call List.
RELATED: Sorry To Bother You's Horse Twist Explained
The ridiculously capitalist model on which the industry thrives is portrayed accurately, as one of the employees is fired on the spot for his inability to lie and swindle, while Kasey is applauded for his fraudulent techniques. Amid all of this, Kasey attempts to win back his girlfriend Christine (Alisha Wainwright) with a romantic dinner but is unable to do so for the
Read more on screenrant.com
