“Lucky Hank” is an enjoyable ride into the human condition that will take you on a journey that is, by turns, funny, melancholy and insightful — but never boring.
Bob Odenkirk pivots effortlessly from his “Better Call Saul” bleakness to the world of small-town college academia in “Lucky Hank,” a pleasant AMC series that chugs along to the beat of its own foibles.
He plays William Henry “Hank” Devereaux Jr., a once-semi-successful novelist who’s now chairing the English Department at underfunded Railton College somewhere in the Pennsylvania rust belt, a place he dubs “mediocrity’s capitol.” The bearded Hank mixes cynicism, sarcasm and pessimistic humor — “being an adult is 80 percent misery,” he posits — while struggling with midlife crises on several fronts: with his famous father, a philandering Columbia University literature professor who abandoned his family years before and, recently retired, now wants to reconnect; with his squabbling staff, a motley, conniving crew who think Hank should be “de-chaired” from his job ; and with his wife, Lily , the vice principal at Railton...
Hank and Lily are settled into a comfortable, loving marriage not without its own challenges: she, too, is dealing with work issues and is tempted by the prospect of a prestigious job in New York City but needs to persuade Hank to leave his hometown behind — a nearly impossible task.
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