My Name Is Earl aired for four seasons on NBC before it was cancelled, and the creator has revealed how he would have ended the series if it had continued on to a natural end. The series ended with a bit of a cliffhanger, but Greg Garcia did have a plan in mind for how to wrap things up.
In a Reddit AMA, he revealed how he would have ended the comedy series if he had been able to close it out. He said:
“I had always had an ending to Earl and I’m sorry I didn’t get the chance to see it happen. You’ve got a show about a guy with a list so not seeing him finish it is a bummer. But the truth is, he wasn’t ever going to finish the list. The basic idea of the ending was that while he was stuck on a really hard list item he was going to start to get frustrated that he was never going to finish it. Then he runs into someone who had a list of their own and Earl was on it. They needed to make up for something bad they had done to Earl. He asks them where they got the idea of making a list and they tell him that someone came to them with a list and that person got the idea from someone else. Earl eventually realizes that his list started a chain reaction of people with list and that he’s finally put more good into the world than bad. So at that point he was going to tear up his list and go live his life. Walk into the sunset a free man. With good karma.”
Garcia also revealed that he had asked the network if it was okay for him to end the season on a cliffhanger. The network told him to go ahead, and it was only after that NBC decided to cancel the series. Garcia might have written a different season four finale if he had known the network was going to cancel the series.
In addition, Garcia also planned to reveal who Earl Jr’s father was before the show ended. The writers were thinking that it would be someone famous who’d been in town for just one night. The writers didn’t get to decide who that would be, but the baby daddy was intended to be revealed before the series ended.
Were you a fan of My Name is Earl? Did Garcia’s reveal give you closure for this series? Tell us what you think.
Please ! We need more earl and closure
WTF you cant just end the show like that. BS!
I still need closure for this series. Can’t they do what Scrubs had to do and get another channel to commission it?
I do like that list ending, but the Earl Jr one needs to be done.
Love this show please make a movie
We loved “My Name is Earl” and would have liked to see this ending play out. We just binge watch the four seasons on Netflix. It’d be fun to see a reboot, Netflix style.
The entire AMA (Ask Me Anything) with Greg Garcia can be found here: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1njddc/im_greg_garcia_creator_of_my_name_is_earl_raising/
I would of love a couple more years of Earl
I loved the show. It was cool to hear how it would had ended but it would have been a lot better to see it unfold. The stars made the show so funny to watch you were hooked to see how things turned out. I wish someone else would have picked up the show just so we can get the ending the show deserved. Thankyou for all the laughs.
im french , me and my girl miss a lot this ***** serie
The last episode pissed me off. I cant understand why that havent finished it yet. I would love to see an ending. Please….
Not bad. Not bad at all
I think earl deaserved to have a son he did good karma and he should have a family member to have to raise. I wish that they didn’t cancel. I was treating my dad very bad and now im turning my life around. When it canseld I cried. My name is earl probley turned many people around. I wish I could see it now 2017. I am a very big fan and I wish I could shake earls hand. My name is Michael jj. Dutil and im going to miss that show.
Why not bring back my name is earl as a Netflix original to give it a proper ending
I want My Name Is Earl back!!! I hate NBC for cancelling it!!!
I remember when the show came out back in 2005 . I watched a couple of episodes. But never caught on. But I recently saw that Netflix had the series. I watched the first one about a month ago. And laughed my ass off. I was watching 4to 5 episodes a day . I was excited to see the last episode. But was pissed off with the cliffhanger “to be continued”. I really wish they would’ve eneed it with earl finishing his list. Oh well you know how tv networks are. I think they should make a movie about it… Read more »