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Wow. For the sake of people who were waiting for the return of My Name is Earl, I hope that tonight’s episode improves dramatically after the fifteen-minute mark, because right up to that point it has sucked out loud. With a fairly gratuitous guest-shot by Marisa Tomei (she was better used on Seinfeld), a banal and unsurprising coma plot, uncharacteristically flat acting, and a retro-TV-comedy-fantasy plot device that I know I’ve seen a time or two before (as plot device, that is), this has all the earmarks of a shark jump.
Apparently, when your show is introduced by Jeff Zucker, entertainment doesn’t necessarily follow. That intro defined “lame and forced,” incidentally. If “JZ” intros The Office or 30 Rock, I may holler.
A few minutes later: Getting even worse. And hey, it’s a whole hour tonight! Don’t think I’ll stick around for the rest.
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Wow. I forgot and didn’t record. And while I didn’t watch them all, I thought Earl’s time in the pokey was comedy gold.
Maybe the writers were gone so long their skills rusted. Or maybe they have new writers.
…I thought Earl’s time in the pokey was comedy gold.
Agreed. So what happened? Out of ideas? New writers? Just a bad episode? When it comes to Hollywood doings, I know only what Defamer tells me.
If I was really interested in the answer, I’d hunt up some savvy fan forum of the show’s. But…something…preventing me…Feels…like…ennui…
It’s actually Alyssa Milano, not Marisa Tomei.
Damn. I can never tell those two apart.