But Odenkirk offers a next-level turn as William Henry Devereaux, Jr., a professor — and English department chair — who feels trapped at the underfunded, mediocre (also fictional) Railton College, surrounded by underperforming students and dysfunctional colleagues. This could be a recipe for annoyance if anyone other than Odenkirk was playing Devereaux – a damaged, bitter guy who can't help stepping in personal land mines he sets for himself. Based on Richard Russo's 1997 novel Straight Man, Lucky Hank also continues Odenkirk's astronomically good luck in choosing projects, reaching from his work on Breaking Bad to starring in Better Call Saul to landing almost immediately in this series — yet another high-quality meditation on the tribulations of an aggravated everyguy.