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Critic Reviews
Mar 11, 2023
Season 1 Review:
In story form, it can be greatly sentimental, especially when soundtracked by Kevin Morby, and fun even, especially when guided by a professor as profoundly human as Odenkirk’s, to go back to college, to see what you would do differently if you could play the game all over again. Or if you’d even want to play the game at all.
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Mar 13, 2023
Season 1 Review:
Hank’s diatribe serves mostly to situate the wonderfully expressive Odenkirk at the center of an observant, if slight, character study about an aging author wrestling with his own inertness. ... But Lucky Hank is full of small pleasures, beginning with its cast. There are fun supporting characters and appealing performances.
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Mar 20, 2023
Season 1 Review:
Lucky Hank is a show you can hang around with, feel basically mellow, and just enjoy the ride. It’s not superlative, and I’m not sure it’s actually trying to say very much, but as an anachronistic detour onto the university campus as it never truly existed (and certainly doesn’t now), it’s an unreal reality that’s worth the visit.
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Mar 17, 2023
Season 1 Review:
Lucky Hank probably won't be for everybody because of its tone, which is sometimes difficult to pin down. Its humor can be dry and dark, and the more optimistic moments are often followed by a hard dose of reality. But if you're willing to sit with the ennui and really give the ensemble a chance, you'll be rewarded with a unique, moving, very human show.
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Mar 11, 2023
Season 1 Review:
The comedy that comes in the English department’s interactions, or in the gentle wit of Hank and Lily’s conversations, makes the series a light and enjoyable watch. But it might, appropriately enough, be the television equivalent of earning a BFA — important in the moment, but unessential after the fact.
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The Daily BeastMar 13, 2023
Season 1 Review:
As with countless modern serialized series, Lucky Hank is playing a long game, so judging it on the basis of its opening chapters—whose effort is largely spent introducing its collection of characters and the dynamics that govern their multifaceted relationships—is inherently difficult. Still, there’s reason for cautious optimism
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IndieWireMar 11, 2023
Season 1 Review:
Through only two episodes, it’s hard to tell if “Lucky Hank” could use a bit more of “Saul’s” eagerness to gaze into the darkness, or if it’d be better off dialing up its softer side. The “everything and the kitchen sink” approach taken by co-showrunners Aaron Zelman and Paul Lieberstein leaves enough room to pivot toward what’s working as the season goes on, but also too many questions about an amorphous story that could be described any which way: Is it a dark comedy? A light drama? A mid-life crisis cringe-fest, or an inspirational everyman saga?
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Mar 21, 2023
Season 1 Review:
But even Bader, a seasoned comedic character actor, can’t make the overly-quippy-yet-deflated dialogue land. Same goes for the rest of the talented but hung-out-to-dry cast, each straining for cringey humor in one limp written exchange after the next. Only Odenkirk and Enos succeed by playing their scenes utterly straight.
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Mar 17, 2023
Season 1 Review:
As of now, it’s mostly a work-in-progress, but there’s ample potential for it to evolve into something good. ... This show’s ability to settle in for a long run will not depend on Odenkirk, who’s instantly comfortable with what should be another indelible character, but on bringing everything around him up to his level.
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Mar 17, 2023
Season 1 Review:
“Lucky Hank” so accurately captures professorial ennui. But it might capture ennui a little too well, resulting in a show that seems to amble in no particular direction with little indication of when it might hit a stride. ... But Hank is the type of lovable curmudgeon that some viewers relate to so deeply that his mere involvement can create genuine stakes.
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Mar 15, 2023
Season 1 Review:
The whole canceled-on-campus thing was already done on Sandra Oh’s “The Chair.” “Lucky Hank” doesn’t drag it out, which is nice, and the resolution of the plot line is comic, which is also nice. But the plot makes for an inauspicious beginning. ... And then I saw the second episode, and it was a marked improvement over the first. Unfortunately, since AMC sent out only two episodes for review, I can’t say whether “Lucky Hank” will continue to find its best self after that.
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Mar 14, 2023
Season 1 Review:
The characters’ antics and idiosyncrasies—disrupting each other’s classes, dedicating lectures to tearing down each other’s work, talking insistently in literary quotations—often verge on the cartoonish. ... Lucky Hank does traffic in some interesting ideas about the generational divide between faculty and students.
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