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Bob Odenkirk<\/a>, well-known because the scamming lawyer Saul Goodman in Better Call Saul<\/i><\/a>, returns to TV in Lucky Hank <\/em><\/a>as grumpy Hank Devereaux, a middle-aged English division chair and professor at a low-rent Pennsylvania faculty. In the comedy-drama, the husband and father spirals right into a midlife disaster fueled by his entitled Generation Z college students, his brainy however peculiar colleagues, and his doubts about his profession. (The faculty bookstore doesn\u2019t even carry his one novel.)<\/p>\n The venture is predicated on the 1997 novel Straight Man<\/i>, by Pulitzer Prize\u2013profitable writer Richard Russo. Odenkirk \u2014 who says as a school child he aspired to be a Jack Kerouac-style novelist \u2014 warmed to it partly as a result of it introduced him again to his comedy roots: \u201cSaul was funny at times, but he wasn\u2019t part of the joke. Hank\u2019s a wisecracker. He laughs at his situation while he suffers.\u201d<\/p>\n (Credit: AMC)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n The actor additionally preferred \u201cthe positive side to it. Saul was a tough guy to play. He was so alone. He wanted Kim [Rhea Seehorn<\/a>] to love him, but they were never going to fully embrace each other.\u201d Hank advantages from a powerful relationship together with his spouse, effervescent highschool vice principal Lily, performed by The Killing<\/i><\/a>\u2019s Mireille Enos<\/a>. \u201cAs crabby as Hank is,\u201d Odenkirk notes, \u201che loves his wife, and she loves him.\u201d<\/p>\n When Hank berates a pupil (who demanded a critique!), the fallout threatens his tenure and causes cracks in his residence life. Odenkirk isn’t any stranger to midlife shocks, after having a coronary heart assault on the set of Saul<\/i>. \u201cMy growth, or whatever may come, from that heart attack, I\u2019m still in the middle of it,\u201d he says. \u201cI\u2019m working on work-life balance. I want to make the right choices so [I do] the best I can with the time I have left for the things I love.\u201d<\/p>\n![\"Bob](\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/lucky-hank-season-1-bob-odenkirk-1014x570.jpg\")
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