LOS ANGELES – Before he finished the final season of “Better Call Saul,” Bob Odenkirk got a script for a new series about a college English professor.
Based on Richard Russo’s novel, “Straight Man,” it was relatable, funny and different. Odenkirk, however, hadn’t quite recovered from a heart attack and was pushing just to finish “Saul.”
Not unlike Sandra Oh’s “The Chair,” “Lucky Hank” pulls back the curtain and shows just how much the academic world is like any other business. Produced by Paul Lieberstein, one of the writer/producers behind “The Office,” it was a way to stay in the workplace but do it “with smarter people. I love this idea about tenure, where you are trapped in success,” Lieberstein says. “You can’t leave that job, so it just allows people to behave very badly in a semi-protected way.
When life at Railton begins to implode and he and his wife become empty nesters, Hank Devereaux has to consider what he truly wants.Early on in his own life, Odenkirk dreamed of being a novelist. “Jack Kerouac was my guiding light,” the 60-year-old explains. “I’ve probably read ‘On the Road’ three times or more.
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