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My Name Is Earl is an American television comedy series created by Greg Garcia that was originally broadcast on the NBC television network from September 20, 2005 to May 14, 2009 in the United States. It was produced by 20th Century Fox Television.

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Tom Shales's review of My Name Is Earl for Washington Post

Posted on Sep 11, 2010

Amounts to a character study of a character not worth studying.... Read More

Nancy Franklin's review of My Name Is Earl for The New Yorker

Posted on Sep 11, 2010

The show is charmless and patronizing, and as refreshing as dust.... Read More

David Zurawik's review of My Name Is Earl for Baltimore Sun

Posted on Sep 11, 2010

My Name Is Earl is not a stupid sitcom - that is what makes its sexist and homophobic jokes so maddening.... Read More

John Leonard's review of My Name Is Earl for New York Magazine

Posted on Sep 11, 2010

We have to put up with characters whose brainpower compares unfavorably with a fire hydrant, but Lee is funny even in a gay bar.... Read More

Paul Brownfield's review of My Name Is Earl for Los Angeles Times

Posted on Sep 11, 2010

Watching "My Name Is Earl," you feel like you're in a movie, or at least a movie trailer. In ways more good than bad, it's immediately comprehensible.... Read More

Sid Smith's review of My Name Is Earl for Chicago Tribune

Posted on Sep 11, 2010

"My Name Is Earl" is cheeky, inventive and often bewitching.... Read More

Rob Owen's review of My Name Is Earl for Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Posted on Sep 11, 2010

Though the characters are quite different, "Earl" somehow brings to mind NBC's "Ed," perhaps because both shows feature a cast of oddballs and are ultimately uplifting, heartwarming portraits of peopl... Read More

Verne Gay's review of My Name Is Earl for Newsday

Posted on Sep 11, 2010

Congenial.... Read More

Linda Stasi's review of My Name Is Earl for New York Post

Posted on Sep 11, 2010

Bad taste meets good writing.... Read More

Terry Sawyer's review of My Name Is Earl for PopMatters

Posted on Sep 11, 2010

What's so wonderful about My Name Is Earl is that it's a comedy with its heart in the right place and everything else gleefully in the gutter.... Read More

Review of My Name Is Earl for The Onion A.V. Club

Posted on Sep 11, 2010

The premise is gimmicky, but based on the promising first two episodes, Lee's infinite list of wrongdoings should provide many seasons' worth of amiable comedy.... Read More

Alessandra Stanley's review of My Name Is Earl for The New York Times

Posted on Sep 11, 2010

Offbeat and utterly charming.... Read More

Melanie McFarland's review of My Name Is Earl for Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Posted on Sep 11, 2010

Cute and smart, "Earl's" pilot pulled a coup unheard of in recent network comedy memory, juggling un-P.C. humor with a winning sweetness.... Read More

Charlie McCollum's review of My Name Is Earl for San Jose Mercury News/Contra Costa Times

Posted on Sep 11, 2010

Manages to be crude and sweet, smart and splendidly stupid, all at the same time.... Read More

Brian Lowry's review of My Name Is Earl for Variety

Posted on Sep 11, 2010

"My Name Is Earl" isn't the best comedy around, but it's pretty darn good.... Read More

Mark Dawidziak's review of My Name Is Earl for Cleveland Plain Dealer

Posted on Sep 11, 2010

"My Name Is Earl" is a good show that doesn't quite have the feel of being the next "Seinfeld" or "Cheers." But like Lee's Earl, Garcia's feel-good concept is strangely effective. If not brilliant, it... Read More

Kristen Baldwin's review of My Name Is Earl for Entertainment Weekly

Posted on Sep 11, 2010

Lee may be a tad too smart to embody this reformed dimwit, but his smooth charm makes Earl go down as easy as a tallboy. [23 Sep 2005, p.82]... Read More

Robert Bianco's review of My Name Is Earl for USA Today

Posted on Sep 11, 2010

Earl shares the look and heavily narrated sound of Arrested Development, but it has its own scruffy comic tone.... Read More

Doug Elfman's review of My Name Is Earl for Chicago Sun-Times

Posted on Sep 11, 2010

The casting is for awesome, flat-out too-good-for-TV acting.... Read More

Matthew Gilbert's review of My Name Is Earl for Boston Globe

Posted on Sep 11, 2010

The NBC sitcom is so unpretentious and original, it will probably win you over on its own sweet merits.... Read More

Barry Garron's review of My Name Is Earl for Hollywood Reporter

Posted on Sep 11, 2010

The buzz is that "My Name Is Earl" is good, and the truth is that it's better than the buzz.... Read More

Nancy DeWolf Smith's review of My Name Is Earl for Wall Street Journal

Posted on Sep 11, 2010

Watching "My Name Is Earl" unfold is like taking a hydrofoil ride and flying so fast above the ordinary surface of television life that when the show ends you feel dazed and amazed for hours afterward... Read More

Tim Goodman's review of My Name Is Earl for San Francisco Chronicle

Posted on Sep 11, 2010

The fall's funniest sitcom.... Read More

Jonathan Storm's review of My Name Is Earl for Philadelphia Inquirer

Posted on Sep 11, 2010

One of the best comedies in years.... Read More

Hal Boedeker's review of My Name Is Earl for Orlando Sentinel

Posted on Sep 11, 2010

Jason Lee excels as scruffy Earl -- he's a Jed Clampett for the new millennium.... Read More

David Hinckley's review of My Name Is Earl for New York Daily News

Posted on Sep 11, 2010

One of this season's most tasty and twisted TV treats.... Read More

Glenn Garvin's review of My Name Is Earl for Miami Herald

Posted on Sep 11, 2010

My Name Is Earl rampages like a bull in a politically correct china shop.... Read More

Mike Duffy's review of My Name Is Earl for Detroit Free Press

Posted on Sep 11, 2010

Brimming with cockeyed echoes of everything from "Raising Arizona" to "King of the Hill," NBC's best new comedy since "Seinfeld" is that rare chucklehead treat: it's both wildly irreverent and blessed... Read More

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