Television
My Name is Earl
Posted on September 21st, 2005 @ 11:09 PM EST
Last night was the first episode of My Name is Earl, which stars Jason Lee. It is Blue Collar TV at its best and is a mix betwen “King of the Hill” and “Raising Arizona”.
The premise of the show is that Earl, a raggedy guy, watches TV host Carson Daly tell a guest that he attributes his success to karma, the notion that good things happen to good people, bad things to bad people. Earl decides that karma is the secret to life and that he needs to be a better person by making up for all the bad things he’s done in the past. While picking up trash he finds a winning lottery ticket for $100,000 that he had previously lost, shortly after he almost backs out of his plan. He decides to keep his goal and ends up taking a guy that he used to pick on all the time when he was little to a gay bar so he could meet a guy.
I thought it was well written and was funny all throughout the show. I have high hopes for it and hope the rest of the episodes are as good as the first. Here are a few lines from the show that I found to be particularly funny:
Ain’t no use running fool, i know where your momma parks your house
Patty doesn’t care if a man has muscles, muscles can’t buy Mad Dog
I tried Earl, I did, towards the end I even pulled out my good boob
Earl, I think you’re trying to sell a cat to a man who fancys dogs
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Lost: Season Finale
Posted on May 25th, 2005 @ 11:03 PM EST
I just finished watching the season finale of Lost and I must say that I was extremely disappointed. I thought since it was a two hour episode, a lot more answers were going to be revealed, but instead they just piled more questions on us. It could have easily been made into an hour long episode since most of it was just useless dialogue.
When I first started watching it in the beginning of the season I wondered how long could a show like this really go on since it was just about a plane crash on a deserted island. At the rate they are going, it could go on for several seasons. All throughout tonight’s episode, I kept thinking they weren’t going to blow the hatch until the last minute and the camera would just zoom inside and not really reveal much - sure enough that’s exactly what happened. We are now left hanging with three major cliffhangers for the next few months:
- Walt being taken from the others.
- The tunnel in the hatch that had a broken ladder.
- The mysterious thing that keeps appearing.
I think Walt has special powers because he told Locke not to open the hatch (as though he knew something bad would happen) then he told his Dad they had to get off the island like there was going to be trouble, he wished the birds outside the window would die when he was doing his homework and they all the sudden died, and also because the polar bear that was on the island came from the one in his comic book shortly after the book was thrown into the fire. It seems like the men who took him are somehow aware that he is special. I believe that the tunnel in the hatch leads down to a scientific lab and the thing on the island is something that was created by the scientists.
Overall, I really enjoyed the first season. Lost is without a doubt one of my favorite shows of all-time. I just really wish they would have clued us in on a lot more than they did to keep a lot of these questions from being unanswered until next Fall. Sure they opened the hatch but instead of answering the question of what was inside of it, they created a new one by showing a deep hole. They also revealed who the others finally were, but I think there’s more than just those three guys. I can’t wait until next season!
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