SXSW TV REVIEW: Bob Odenkirk lends his weight to light academic comedy Lucky Hank.
There's often a confusion that drama has to be epic, overblown, and filled with dire ramifications. Yet there is a singular charm and identifiability in the hapless middle., an incisive and gentle satire of campus life in the middling faculty of a middling college in a middling small town, which is where William Henry Deveraux Jr. has found himself the chairman of the English Department - a position he secretly relishes because it gives him something else to complain about.
After the scheming deviousness and proudly embraced amorality of Saul Goodman, with his grand and wicked schemes, Bob Odenkirk has gone for a much smaller and pricklier performance as the titular character. Hank doesn't want to impress people by his achievements, but by his kindly acerbic truth-telling. The underlying question is whether he is passive-aggressively self-destructive, or just has embraced his own mediocrity.
If it's a mellowing for Odenkirk, it's also a change of pace for Peter Farrelly, who directed the first episode as well as executive producing the series.
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