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Shows That Successfully Returned To The Formula?

I know I’ve talked before about how shows promise to “get back to their roots” and how this doesn’t really work most of the time. But I had to come back to the issue after reading that My Name is Earl promises to “get back to the list” (that is, to the original formula of having most episodes revolve around an item from Earl’s list) after the disaster of last season’s prison, coma and marriage storylines.