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My Name Is Earl
Dennis Burger
12/01/2005
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Produced by: 20th Century Fox Television
Network: NBC
Scheduled: Tuesday, 9 p.m.
Reviewed on: WSFA-DT1, Montgomery
Channel: 12 (14.1 Digital)
 The ever-brilliant Jason Lee, whose name is synonymous with second-billed
best-buddy roles and the occasional Kevin Smith flick, lights up the small
screen as a poor white trash miscreant who vows to turn his life around after
he’s struck by a car and watches a winning lottery ticket float away in the
breeze. To reverse his bad karma, Earl sets out with his delinquent brother
Randy (Ethan Suplee of Mallrats fame) and a hot Latina motel maid (Nadine
Velazquez) to find the people he’s wronged and make things right, while trying
to avoid his money-hungry trailer trash ex-wife (Jaime Pressly).
Given its
satirically lowbrow concept, My Name is Earl’s cinema- tography is startlingly
slick, with interesting framing and an intermittent freeze-frame technique that
is pulled off with enough panache to avoid being passé. Sadly, NBC’s
presentation is a bit soft, and the only high spot of the mostly front-heavy 5.1
audio is the music—an eclectic bass-heavy mix that runs the gamut from redneck
chic to Rob Base & DJ EZ Rock. Don’t let the tarnished presentation scare
you away, though: My Name Is Earl is so decadently good, it is sure to be
cancelled before the end of its first season.
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