Apple summed up his cautions before last night’s premier nicely in his My Name is Earl review; along with a humorous Jason Lee encounter. As you’ll see in the comments there, I thought -
All the hype made me cautious as well; It can lead to expecting too much, as well as giving the appearance there’s just too much money behind it to be any good at all. I was pleasently suprised with the results, I thought it started out a bit weak but ended stronger than I was expecting. Joke wise, originality wise, not taking obvious routes-wise.
I do hope that as the show moves forward, the writing will be a bit more creative, something like the body of work behind a, say… Malcolm in the Middle.
How about the suprise role of that cotton-in-his-mouth Telly dude?
That’s right, I just used a comment on a different site as a post on this site!!
huphtur #
isn’t that called a pingback?
or a trackback?
or a commentback?
or a WTFISAWIKIback?
Bill #
I was holding shift so it is in fact, a WTFISAWIKIback.
cpawl #
It seemed “okay” but hardly as great as the hype surrounding it or as obscure (Malcom in the Middle is a lot off the wall then My Name is Earl- at least so far).
It’s nice to see Jason Lee on primetime, I always liked him ever since he was one of my favorite skaters back in the way back. Although his character is a bit close to Nicholas Cage in “Raising Arizona” (same haircut at least) and his brother looks like he got his ideas from the sidekick dude in “Shawn of the Dead”.
We’ll see how it goes… if I ever find time to watch TV again.