My Name Is Earl

Since we are on this deep stuff and how movies get us thinking about other possibilities, I could not help thinking about My Name Is Earl!

This is a 30 minutes sitcom on Mnet. Now I don’t have Mnet so I decided one day (when the prospect of taking out another movie that would disappoint me to no end was just too much) to get the first My Name Is Earl DVD of about 5 or 6 episodes.

Now I like dark comedies but this one also has an interesting message. The whole premise of the show is that Earl was your run of the mill not so good guy! He stole, drank at 10 in the morning and did not so good things. So it so happens that he wins money in those scratchy card things but immediately after, he gets hit by a car, loses the winning scratchy card and lands up in hospital. While lying in hospital he catches a Carson Daily show and Carson is talking about Karma, that if you do bad things bad things will happen to you if you do good things … well you get the gist.

So this changes Earl’s whole perspective and he makes a list of all the bad things he has ever done and vows to make up for it so that his life can get better. So in each episode of the show he has to cross out something from his list but with each item, he learns something and becomes a better person. His winning scratchy card even finds his way back to him.

The show is hilarious and Jason Lee is just even more hilarious (also loved him when he played the closeted gay man on Chasing Amy and the devil in Dogma). The characters are funny and it is just a good show about one man’s decision on how he is going to go about this thing called life.

Check out his break dancing in the second disk in the episode where his ex wife gets remarried.