Lucky Hank is an eight-episode mid-life crisis tale about the unlikely chairman of the English department in a badly underfunded college in the Pennsylvania rust belt.
Based on the 1997 novel “Straight Man” by Richard Russo, best known for the Pulitzer Prize-winning book “Empire Falls,” “Lucky Hank” has a similar premise as 2021’s Netflix series “The Chair,” which starred Sandra Oh as the stressed-out chair of a college’s English department. Odenkirk takes on the role of William Henry Devereaux Jr., the English department chair at Railton College, a poorly funded university in the Pennsylvania rust belt. The original book followed Devereaux — an anarchist — over the course of one increasingly chaotic week, as he contends with angry colleagues, suspects his wife of cheating on him with the dean, fights off his own attraction to a young adjunct professor, ponders his tense relationship with his father, and faces reminders of his own mortality.
I like the premise a lot, I'll wait on your reviews after more episodes have come out in order to make my mind up about watching it or not - while I do like the premise of it, it's also incredibly cliché : fucked relation with colleagues/boss ? Check. fucked relation with spouse, possibly cheating with boss ? Check. wanna cheat on wife because of hot new recruit ? Check.
Only thing missing here is an unfulfilling and distant relationship with his kids, but I guess they've got none.
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