Bella Bloom (Elizabeth Reaser) has a problem. She learns from a psychic that she needs to marry within the year or she will not ever marry. She also learns that the man she will marry is someone she has already dated. That is the premise of the new show The Ex List on CBS.

This is not a show I would watch with my 80 year old parents or with children as the themes are very adult in nature, but I found this new comedy to be engaging. In the pilot Bella gets back together with a musician boyfriend who she had dumped because he was over emotional and clingy. Dumping him has been good for his music career as he has turned the experience into the lyrics of hard rock ballads. Sure it is the plot of an old Boy Meets World episode but it is still funny.

Fortunately for Bella she lives in the world of TV comedy where psychics are always right sleeping with old boyfriends every week will probably not get her an STD. Like My Name is Earl, Bella makes her list but she has been told by the psychic to follow the signs. She won’t be going out to track down old boyfriends but will be running into them every week and if the writing stays sharp I will be watching.