"Earl" Creator Greg Garcia Tells TVSquad That He Doesn't Regret 'The List'

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by Joel Keller
posted Sept 18th 2010



Let me talk to you about "Earl" for a few seconds.

Looking back, when you made the concept of the list, do you think you shouldn't have done it that way or did you think it was a good way to delineate the series?


No, I loved that I did it that way. If you watch all the episodes I never really went away from it. The list was always a component in the show.


In season 1 we did every episode was just a list item and season 4 we went back to that.

But in season 2, every episode was a list item but there was a B story going on of Jamie Pressly getting arrested and having to deal with it and everything.

Season 3 got kooky with him going to jail and landing in a coma but the thing is, even when he was in jail or in a coma, every episode had a list component. It wasn't like he just put that thing down and went away from it.




I enjoyed everything we did on that show. You need to keep things fresh and experiment and do different things with the show. See what works and what doesn't work or otherwise you're doing the same damn thing every week.

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