My Name Is Earl
My Name Is Earl
TV-14 | 20 September 2005 (USA)

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    Kattiera Nana I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.
    Softwing Most undeservingly overhyped movie of all time??
    ReaderKenka Let's be realistic.
    Mandeep Tyson The acting in this movie is really good.
    Maniac-9 I watched the pilot episode of MNIE when it debuted and was hooked on the show ever since it. I was already a big Jason Lee fan since we was in movies like Mallrats and Chasing Amy.Earl and his dimwitted brother Randy are con men/thieves until Earl wins $100,000 in the lottery but then instantly gets hit by a car and loses the ticket. Earl seeing Carson Daly on TV talking about karma and saying that good things happen to good people. So Earl determines to turn his life around. He makes a list of every bad thing he's ever done.Other characters in the show are Joy who is Earl's ex-wife, crabman aka Darnell who works at the Crabshack and ends up marrying Joy and Catalina who's the housekeeper at the hotel that Earl and Randy live in and also a dancer at Club Chubby.
    ctomvelu1 I know Jason Lee as a superb character actor from the movies, so this modest little show about a redneck trying to correct and make amends for his past sins comes as a very pleasant surprise. I only became aware of it in reruns, so I have not seen it in order and I am not sure if it ended properly. Lee, as the repentant Earl, travels around with his doofus brother, catching up with people he wronged in the past. The show is often crude and rude and cartoonish in its antics, so this is perfect for cable even though it originated on NBC. Lee is hysterical with his Freddie Mercury mustache and frequently quizzical looks. He is now answering to a higher power, but he is not educated enough to always figure things out. The solutions, or punch lines to situations, often sneak upon him as well as us. This is not a show for children, by the way, although it runs on TV day and night. The main reason to keep the kids away is Jaime Pressly's character, Earl's ex-wife, who will do anything, even consider murder, to get whatever she wants. And she wants a lot. Pressly is brilliant as a trashy. neglectful mother of two children, one black and one white. Guest stars on this Hee-Haw of a sitcom have included Betty White and Danny Glover. No laugh track, which is a plus. Worth a look by those not easily offended by salty language and adult situations. At times, EARL feels like a Kevin Smith movie.
    johncheese2 This show is terrible, one of the worst things on recent television. The jokes are lame, corny, poorly written and delivered. The word Karma is said 1000 times an episode, and the situations are dull, dull, dull -- last time I checked, a sitcom meant situational comedy.The characters are uninteresting and boring. They're all essentially the same, ie dumb rednecks. The actors who play them are quite poor. It seems like they know they're in a sitcom and are trying to be funny. Jason Lee does this some of the time, and the only one who acts in any way believable is Jamie Presley, who can't save her character from being atrocious.This show is clever for people who don't get actual clever comedy. If you want clever, watch Arrested Development, Curb Your Enthusiasm, It's Always Sunny, Seinfeld, and, dare I say, Scrubs, which is better than this dross.
    Mark Honhorst I'd give this hilarious and original show a 10 if it wasn't for stupid ol' NBC canceling it on a cliffhanger. Now we'll never know who Earl Jr's real dad is! I will admit that the show got more and more gross every season(like in the episode "Nature's Game Show", Randy devours undelivered human organs), but that's no reason to cancel such a great show. I guess they canceled it because the ratings were terrible. Typically, people have no taste in television; they'd rather watch all the reality TV crap. In my opinion almost all of the really good shows are canceled before their time, but, then again, if I think it's really good, I don't think it should ever end. I know I sound like a complete nerd whining about frivolous crap such as TV shows, but I really hate it when shows are canceled on cliffhangers.