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My name is Earl

19:12 / 11.01.06

Is anyone wathcing this show?

Its just started on channel four on Fridays in the UK and seemed tro have aried in September in the states on NBC.
Jason Lee is in it and as I knew I was goign to miss it I downloaded the first thre episodes over theweekend.
Fantastic!
Lee is the kind of guy you'd cross the street to avoid.
Doin nothing but petty crimes.
Wins a heap o' cash on a scratchcard and then promptly gets hit by a car and loses the ticket. He hears Carson Daly talking about Karma on TV while recovering in hospital and figures he was hit by that car "cause he'd never done no good", so when something good happened to him it was balanced out by Karma.

So he decided to put together a list of all the wrongs he's done (e.g. #86 stole a car fom a one legged woman) and decided to put all this right.

How will he find time/money to do all these good deeds.
While starting on the list he finds the lost scratchcard...KARMA!

Its a very funy show with cool charatcers and has a great subplot about Earls white trash wife divorcing him and then finding out he won the lottery and her myriad schemes for getting some of it.
So what does anyone else think?

20:55 / 11.01.06

I am - I like Jason Lee, I really do, but it seems a little too early to call on this one. Maybe it suffered a little from being praised by critics a little over positive, but it was okay.

20:59 / 11.01.06

Thought it was OK, shows promise. Only made me properly laugh a few times, but I think that's mostly to do with Jason Lee. I just really like his tone of voice and would happily watch him in most things. Or listen to him read the phonebook. Or Hawksmoor's short stories...

00:08 / 12.01.06

It's a great show.

09:45 / 13.01.06

Well it made me laugh...twice, which I found surprising.

First, when he got hit by the car after winning the lottery, and again when they run out of that guy's house after they find out he's gay.

I am looking forward to the next episode.

18:28 / 13.01.06

I'm really fond of this show. It's very sweet in it's own way and I like the fact that despite the main protaganists are basically, um, very low calibre (I know there's a better way to describe them but it's just not coming to me at the mo), they're mostly trying to do the right thing and I find that very forgivable.
It doesn't often make me laugh out loud but I chuckle a lot and although that's not really enough for most comedy, My Name is Earl gets away with it because it seems to know it's own limitations and never tries to exceed them.
Earl also sports a very fine moustache and if that's not worth the price of admission alone then I don't know what is.

13:22 / 14.01.06

Just finished watching the fourth and fifth episodes and I'm really enjouying it.These two had me laughing out loud quite a few times.

Does anyone know how this has fared in the states regarding renewal or cancellation?

14:22 / 14.01.06

"Dibs"

I love the show. Jason Lee's wide-eyed expressions can sell an entire joke. Guy's got a talented face is wot.

"In retrospect the running probably wasn't necessary"

Watching through so far I like the way the show's #1 rule (Karma) is consistently handled as something real, not just in Earl's head.

18:33 / 14.01.06

well Earl is NBC's new "big show", this and the American version of the Office, i expect it to last this entire season and be back again next year for sure.

Damn fine show i may add!

19:04 / 14.01.06

I caught this last night, and the main thing I took away from it is that I want his hair and 'tash. My hair is not that far off his but I'd need to gel it up or not wash it for a few days to get his look, but unfortunately I don't think I could grow a tash like his.

Other than that, reasonably watchable but not hilarious or anything. Been awhile since I've watched Mallrats though ...

13:39 / 27.01.06

Caught my first ep. of this last night (in the US; not sure if there's a separate US thread for this, I don't think so) -- really very entertaining. Lee is great, I love the actor who plays his brother, I've seen him before but not sure where. Jamie Pressly is surprisingly funny as trailer trash, with great comic timing.

And I was also impressed with the soundtrack - all amazing 70s and 80s tunes. Never have I seen a sitcom, much less a 1/2 hour one, with such fantastic music as its score. I heard Joe Jacksons "Time," a Doors song and the "The Load" by The Band (I like all kinds of music, not just 'classic rock' and 70s/80s stuff, but man those are good songs and it was fun and refreshing to hear them on an NBC sitcom).

18:59 / 27.01.06

Finder: Earl's brother is Ethan Suplee, who you might recognise from such films as Mallrats and Evolution.
The soundtrack is suprisingly good, though I might just think that because of my fondness for southern rock.

21:44 / 27.01.06

ah, thanks, knew I'd seen him somewhere (Mallrats).

09:02 / 28.01.06

Last night's episode was fantastic, I was laughing out loud for a large proportion of the show. My favourite scene was the reveal when Earl wakes up in Natalie's room, just so funny. I'm trying to be analytical but I can't because I like the show so much.

17:38 / 26.03.06

Anyone else still watching this? It's still great, though Channel 4 seem to be giving it the Seinfeld treatment and keep shifting it's time slot around, putting it on later and later.

17:12 / 28.03.06

I enjoy this show very much. It is sweet and funny. Some episodes are better than others (Christmas was great, the father issues not so good for me). Can anyone tell me where they live in America? Alabama? Mississippi.? Southern California? I cant figuure it out.

MattShepherd: I WEDDED KALI!

12:17 / 15.10.06

I'm just catching up on it, and I'm loving it! Jason Lee and Ethan Suplee are great, the writing's sharp, and the whole premise of Karma as a stupidly blunt magical force of nature is awesome. I don't spend a lot of time laughing out loud, but appreciating the show. My favourite characters are generally the guest stars: Ralph cracks me up, as do Kenny and the Crabman.