Monday, November 28, 2005
My Name Is Earl
Standard caveat: I don't watch television very much except a couple of shows on Sunday night. But...
We've been watching My Name Is Earl on NBC Tuesday nights. It's terrific. If the Coen Brothers did a sitcom, I imagine that they'd do a show like this. The cast includes Jason Lee (Earl Hickey) and Ethan Suplee (Randy Hickey) who are both Kevin Smith film regulars. The premise is not typical sitcom fare:Earl makes a lengthy list of "wrongs" while lying in his hospital bed. In each episode, Earl tries to remove an item from his list. For example, in a recent episode he was trying to make up to a woman he dumped by faking his death.
We've been watching My Name Is Earl on NBC Tuesday nights. It's terrific. If the Coen Brothers did a sitcom, I imagine that they'd do a show like this. The cast includes Jason Lee (Earl Hickey) and Ethan Suplee (Randy Hickey) who are both Kevin Smith film regulars. The premise is not typical sitcom fare:
Earl is a low-life who finds a winning lottery ticket, only to get hit by a car, losing the ticket in the process. He then realizes in the hospital that his bad luck is the result of karma in which fate punishes him for all the rotten things he's ever done in his life; therefore, he then decides to dedicate his life to making amends to all the people he has hurt in his life.
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