Bob Odenkirk strikes gold again in his latest series, ‘Lucky Hank,’ where he makes us all care about an entitled, sarcastic, painfully self-aware English professor — on the verge of a midlife crisis, our TV critic writes.
Making a life's unraveling seem entertaining
His department is so backward that when his colleagues decide to unseat him as chair, they screw up and vote him back into the job by mistake. His students are so unimpressive that Devereaux tells one aspiring writer that the proof he is mediocre is that he's enrolled at a place as bad as Railton.Devereaux also tells the student he can be assured that his teacher is also mediocre, because he's stuck at Railton, too.
These days, I have a low threshold for TV centered on entitled jerks who don't realize how privileged their lives are. Butavoids that pitfall by playing up the absurdity of academia, college life and educational bureaucracy in a way that makes almost everyone look both bone-headed and long-suffering.
"You can't help these kids," Odenkirk's Devereaux tells one adjunct professor, who aspires to join the tenured, full-time faculty."There's more promise in a senior citizen's yoga class."Odenkirk is aided in this quirky enterprise by an ace supporting cast, which includesalum Oscar Nunez as the buddy/boss Dean Rose,alum Diedrich Bader as another buddy/colleague Tony and Kyle MacLachlan as Railton's president, Dickie Pope.
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