TV-Reviewed

We’ve seen nothing but positive things happen from Earl doing his list. With this episode, Earl finds out that there are some bad things that come along with doing the list.

With Randy’s birthday coming up, Earl uses it as a way to cross never letting “Randy get anything better then me” off his list. Earl gets Randy a new car that looks better then his. When Earl goes to show Randy his new car, it’s been stolen. In Camden county, there’s a code of conduct that all criminals don’t steal from other criminals. Since Earl is trying to do good now, he’s not protected under the criminal code of conduct anymore. Earl is able to get the car back again, but for a fee and then it gets stolen again.

Earl ends up in quite a bind, because if he were the old Earl, he would have done something illegal to get even, but then again like Darnell said, “if he was the old Earl, his car wouldn’t have gotten stolen anyway.” After contemplating, Earl decides that he has no choice but to go to the cops. This turns out to be a bad idea, because in Camden County snitches are the lowest of low. With Earl snitching, he’s faced with the silence of the whole county.

Why wasn’t I in this episode more?

It’s weird with Earl at such a disadvantage. It was almost like watching a bully pick on the kid who refuses to fight. I did like that the episode challenged Earl’s conscious and Earl had to figure out his own way of getting things done. It was also quite fun to watch Earl go back to his old ways and try to hotwire a car only to realize that he’d forgotten. Scenes like this show that there has been some character development with Earl and that so much time has passed that Earl isn’t at the top of his criminal game anymore.

This episode wasn’t without its flaws though. It was kind of a downer that we didn’t see more of Randy this episode. While we get that Randy couldn’t see his birthday gift, it would have been nice to see him in another capacity on this episode. Also a great episode of Earl, is one where Earl learns a lesson and we see some character development, but this wasn’t one of those episodes. By the end of this episode, nobody really learns any kind of lesson except the fact that everyone in Camden County is a snitch.

I thought there were some good to decent moments in this episode, but this episode was weaker then most of the episodes so far this season and it lacked the heart that we’ve gotten from most of the episodes this season. This episode did enough to entertain us, but Earl needs to get back on the track that it was on before this episode.

Rating: 7.0