10 Huge Unexplained TV Mysteries (That Were Totally Solved)
5. Did Earl Finish His List? - My Name Is Earl
The Mystery
My Name Is Earl was a cult sitcom about a low life criminal who realises that whenever anything good happens in his life, something terrible is right around the corner. He decides to correct his karma by making a list of all the bad things he’s done, and working through it one by one until his karma is clear.
The show ran for a healthy 96 episodes before the plug was pulled, but the showrunner wasn’t able to give it a proper ending. Fans were thus left in limbo, wondering if the luckless Earl ever managed to complete his impossible task.
The Answer
The creator actually threw them a bone in his next series Raising Hope, where a radio broadcast reveals Earl’s fate.
It turns out he managed to complete the whole list, and that the ending was truly spectacular. It’s not much to go on, but at least Earl got a happy ending.