Lucky Hank

The star of AMC's new college-set comedy-drama offers insights into the key moves in the first episode — and what lies ahead later this season.

He has an outburst in class, and that shakes up his relationship to everyone on the faculty and in the college. And, of course, the goose is on the logo of the school; the Railton sweatshirts and clothes have the goose. [Laughs] All the problems that he has in the first season, and everything that will now alter his life, is all provoked by his reaction to his father's retirement and his sense of the world shifting under his feet. And the rest of the world goes, "No, no, we don't care." The great thing is that in the course of eight episodes, I'm not saying he works everything out — he doesn't — but there's such a degree of transformation that I'm not used to in a TV show. You'll have to see; I don't want to spoil it, but his life is changing and he didn't realize how on the cusp he was of everything evolving. It's not a ton of growth, but it's more than you are used to seeing and it's just refreshing in a TV show. The logic in my mind was he has a distance and a bemusement at life that he insists is a personal choice of his, but it's not. The misery — I noticed this is really not a choice I made, but how often the character kind of grunts and sighs and kind of does that exhale thing of like, "Ugh." I wanted to go there and see if I could handle that and present that lightness in a way that was watchable and entertaining. He was just a college professor, sitting in front of other college professors, about to find out if he was about to be removed as chairman of the English department. And how much of his misanthropy is inward and how much is outward?

Better Call Saul's Bob Odenkirk has debuted his new series on AMC and it's garnering a lot of praise.

The show stars Odenkirk as a professor in an underfunded college who does his best to avoid having a complete mental breakdown as he juggles the problems in his personal and professional life. You can get a sneak peek at the show by watching its official trailer below. With its first episode here, the show has debuted with a near-perfect score of 96% fresh on [Rotten Tomatoes](https://movieweb.com/tag/rotten-tomatoes). And he’s (surprise) phenomenal in it." Among those praising Lucky Hank is Rhea Seehorn, who co-starred with Odenkirk on Better Call Saul for all six seasons. [Bob Odenkirk](https://movieweb.com/person/bob-odenkirk) wrapped up his run on Better Call Saul last year, it wasn't long before he was doing something new for AMC.

Lucky Hank started on a promising note with the introduction of Bob Odenkirk's William Henry Devereaux, Jr. aka. Hank.

Lily then displayed a variety of emotions and the pilot episode of Lucky Hank ended here. So they voted again and this time, Hank was the only one to receive more than two votes for the position. He insulted Bartow and said that Railton College was mediocre and the fact that Bartow was there said a lot about his potential. Hank later received a call from Marnie Cole, a colleague of his father's. He was the chair of the English department at Railton College and led an easy and carefree life. Hank at the very start of the episode. Hank turned her down by saying that his father had not contacted him in 15 years. Since the others didn't say anything, Hank gave Bartow the green light to continue but Bartow voiced that Hank wasn't paying attention to him. Railton College, where Hank works, was furious at him for abusing the institution during one of his classes. His father had recently retired and Hank feared that this would disrupt the dynamics of their Lucky Hank started on a promising note with the introduction of Bob Odenkirk's William Henry Devereaux, Jr. Fans were quickly made aware that he is not only sick of his job but also has problems with his wife Lily and father, William Henry Devereaux, Sr.

Episode 1 of Lucky Hank (Season 1) took us to Hank's time at college when he was removed from his position.

Hank is a case of ‘hurt people hurt people.’ But it is more about the emotional hurt caused by his father, and his refusal to express it with anyone has made him into this prickly creature, unable to resonate with him. [comes home](https://www.highonfilms.com/annabelle-comes-home-2019-review/) and asks Hank to fund her partner’s career in his passion. He feels regret ‘for all that he didn’t have’ all these years, including the feelings of rejection or neglect that he would have been subjected to if his father hadn’t left him. He cuts the call making it clear that he does not consider his father a Back in Hank’s college, the staff needs to find a replacement for him since he gets de-chaired. Hank is angry that he learned about it through the newspaper and not from his father. Afterward, they meet, and Dean asks Hank to apologize to Bartow and get rid of the issue. He is also unhappy with how the younger generation of his daughter – Julie (Olivia Scott Welch), who takes happiness for granted and feels entitled to it. [sees news about his father getting an award](https://www.highonfilms.com/2022-peoples-choice-awards-see-the-full-list-of-winners/), and he isn’t the least bit happy about it. Hank tells him to go back to what he said about his previous work. [last interaction and shares how hopeful](https://www.highonfilms.com/a24-hollywoods-last-best-hope/) he was to be a storyteller since he was a kid. Bartow asks Hank to share what he thought of it.

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In new series Lucky Hank, the Better Call Saul star gets back to his comedy roots.

And it also can be funny, and it can also be not funny after a while,” he jokes. And he’s gotta pull himself up by his own bootstraps and get out of his own way and step out of the muck of his bad feelings and see a new way forward.” I was training today at the stunt gym because I’m hoping we get to make Nobody 2 and we’re working hard to make that happen.” I’m finding ways to put more time and space into my life.” But it was a lot of tension and a lot of stress to just be that guy. And it’s great to play a guy who has a sense of humour about his world. And that was the story that we were telling,” he admits. “And so the stakes are lower, but they’re not low to the characters because everybody perceives their own problems as being huge. He was funny to watch, but he wasn’t necessarily being funny. But it takes a little while for him to realise he might be f***ing it up for real,” Odenkirk says. His new role couldn’t be more different - the stakes are “extremely low”, he jokes. “That was the only sort of recreational thing I got to do.

This is Bob Odenkirk's new series, and it centers on an English department chairman at an underfunded college, Professor Hank Devereaux. Hank walks a fine line ...

Episode 2 of Lucky Hank will release on Sunday 26th March at 9pm (ET). Usually AMC originals show up via the AMC Channel with BT but Lucky Hank is not on the roster of shows making its jump across the pond. This is Bob Odenkirk’s new series, and it centers on an English department chairman at an underfunded college, Professor Hank Devereaux.

Bob Odenkirk takes a break from prestige drama and faces a mid-life crisis in the light and witty AMC+ show Lucky Hank.

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From show creators Aaron Zelman and Paul Lieberstein, and adapted from the novel Straight Man by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Russo, ...

Now, I just go project to project, and I look for something that feels it goes to another place from what I just did. I think that that’s what makes the characters you play so interesting to watch. It was a person and a world and a universe that I could relate to and that was just very refreshing, after the loneliness of Jimmy McGill’s world. And of course, I’d like to do more action because I did enjoy making that movie, a lot more than I thought I would. This part felt so fundamentally different from Saul because he was in on the joke of who he was, he was aware of the persona that he’d constructed, and he had connection to people in his world. But we knew it was a challenge from the start, and we talked about it all the time. That’s what I’m trying to do, and I’m always trying to do that with my next project. I love the idea that we took a run at this and that we’re exploring this world that’s closer to the stakes of real life, which are the stakes of your ego, the stakes of status, and the stakes of how you matter to your wife or husband and your kids. This is such an interesting character because he’s a bit reluctant, he’s kind of ambivalent, and he can be crabby, but he’s also quite funny and you can see that he loves his family. I love that you’re showrunners for Lucky Hank have done The Office and Bloodline because, even though those shows couldn’t be more different, the combination of those two things feels perfect for this show, which is fairly serious at times and a little melancholy sometimes, but it still made me laugh out loud more than once. There was so much that I liked about it, so I said I would do this show. The seemingly ordinary man with an ordinary life and an ordinary career, with a wife (Mireille Enos) and daughter (Olivia Scott Welch) that he loves, also feels like he’s on the brink of a mid-life crisis that could erupt at any moment, possibly on his students or co-workers.

Mireille Enos, Diedrich Bader, Suzanne Cryer, Oscar Nuñez and Cedric Yarbrough also star in the dramedy, adapted for TV by The Office's Paul Lieberstein...

Our Take: Lucky Hank has an interesting combination of showrunners behind it: Paul Lieberstein of The Office and Aaron Zelman of The Killing (Odenkirk is also an executive producer, as well as Peter Farrelly, who directed the first episode). Finally, Haig Sutherland is Finny, a professor who likes to abstain from just about any strong opinion, but “throws away” his vote on Hank for department chair. He tells Lily to think about the job offer she got in New York and see if the position is still open. We do love the Greek chorus that is the English department at Railton. Hank tells Lily he’s untouchable because of tenure, but Lily replies that “having tenure doesn’t mean you can’t get punched in the mouth.” He has to field texts from the people in his department as well as his buddy Tony Conigula (Diedrich Bader). His biggest rival, Gracie DuBois (Suzanne Cryer), is ready to convene a vote to de-chair him, while Paul Rourke (Cedric Yarbrough) seems to support the outburst. He hears about the de-chairing vote from Billie (Nancy Robertson), one of his old friends in the department, so he sits in on the vote. Suffice to say, he’s having a hard time, especially since his famous father retired from his position at a more prestigious college, and the way Hank found out is from a splashy article in The New York Times. The professors in his department are mixed on his outburst. His wife Lily (Mireille Enos), a high school vice principal,disagrees with Hank that adulthood is “80 percent misery.” She thinks it’s more like 30, which he finds impossible. As Barto pushes back, comparing himself to Chaucer, Hank stands up and starts ranting that Barto isn’t going to be Chaucer “because you’re here”, meaning Railton, which he calls “mediocrity’s capital.” By the way, he includes himself in that mediocrity, having written a single novel many years ago.