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THE enormously popular My Name Is Earl returned with a Third Season this month on Showtime.
After cooking up a winning formula for two seasons the enormously popular and critically-acclaimed sitcom - staring Jason Lee as reformed criminal Earl - is now even funnier. It will run every Tuesday at 9pm.
The most original comedy since Arrested Development, My Name Is Earl marked the launch of a lovable new loser. Earl Hickey sleeps all day and drinks all night.
The pattern ends when he buys a scratch card and wins $100,000. Seconds later, he's hit by a car and loses the ticket. While in the hospital, wife Joy leaves him for Darnell the Crab Man.
Doped up on morphine, he's watching TV when Carson Daly says something about karma. Earl decides that's his problem: bad karma. He resolves to spend the rest of his life making up for all the harm he's ever done.
Having written a very long list, Earl starts with number 64 and visits a one-legged girl from whom Earl once stole a car.
Each episode features Earl attempting to right a wrong from his past. The unique comedy style of My Name Is Earl has earned it both cult affection and mainstream success.
To date, the comedy has received the People's Choice Award, two Television Critics Awards, a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series and Emmy Awards for writing, directing, casting and editing.
Joining Earl on his quest to cleanse his karma are a few dim-witted friends including hapless brother Randy (Ethan Suplee) and the very sexy Catalina (Nadine Velazquez). Even Darnell (Eddie Steeples), an employee of the Crab Shack where Earl drinks, offers his support. But it's Earl's ex-wife Joy (Jaime Pressly) who won't lift a finger to help unless there's something in it for her.
Despite his seemingly limited intelligence, Earl is oddly effective and the third-year series, like its namesake, has a voice and style all its own.
