Some of the best television shows are about whip-smart operators and the political nuances of their professional worlds. So why then is it so challenging to make a satisfying series about academia?…
,” which is built from just such a novel. It’s an adaptation of “Straight Man,” the Richard Russo novel that preceded his Pulitzer Prize-winning “Empire Falls.” Much of Russo’s work borrowed elements from his real-life origins as an English professor-turned-novelist, which explains why “Lucky Hank” so accurately captures professorial ennui.
The pilot, adapted by Paul Lieberstein and Aaron Zelman, comes across as a character study, with Hank struggling to find a broader purpose and meaning to his life of tweed jackets and syllabi. When the action pivots to the machinations of the professors under Hank, the pilot loses its head of steam. But between Lieberstein and Zelman’s snappy script and Odenkirk’s lived-in performance, the pilot is an entertaining enough opening chapter even as the genre and themes remain opaque.
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