I recently started watching My Name Is Earl on DVD. The show follows around Earl Hickey, also the narrator, who is a middle-aged man that has had a life of crime and robbery. The show kicks off with Earl buying a scratch-and-win card from a convenience store (with stolen money). He scratches the ticket only to find that he is the winner of $10,000. He then gets hit by a car and loses the lottery ticket.
While in the hospital, and after getting divorced by his wife Joy, Earl discovers Karma. He decides that he needs to turn his life around drastically or else it will kill him. He makes a list of all the bad things he’s done in his life, and decides that he needs to find a way to make each one right again. Along with quitting smoking, dancing with an extremely tall girl in her living room and going to a gay bar with someone he used to make fun of, Earl has to do some crazy things to cross people off his list.
My Name Is Earl only ran for three seasons until it got cancelled for lack of viewers, and supposedly it ends on a bit of a cliffhanger. From what I’ve seen so far, the show is funny, has well-rounded and easy-to-like characters, and is quite addicting. For those who haven’t seen an episode of My Name Is Earl, I suggest you go rent the seasons now.
