Lucky Hank

The following recap contains spoilers for Lucky Hank S1E5, “The Clock” (written by Jean Kyoung Frazier and directed by Jude Weng) Not since Michael Scott snipped and snapped his way through a three-hour braise of the osso bucco has a dinner party among colleagues been as cringy and difficult to watch as the one the Railton College […] More

The following recap contains spoilers for Lucky Hank S1E4, “The Goose Boxer” (written by Emma Barrie and directed by Dan Attias) Through the first three episodes of Lucky Hank, just about the last words I would use to describe Hank Devereaux would be “capable leader.” But Episode 4, “The Goose Boxer,” puts Hank squarely into a position […] More

The following recap contains spoilers for Lucky Hank S1E3, “Escape” (written by Adam Barr and directed by Dan Attias) If you’ve made it through the first three episodes of Lucky Hank, you know by now that the primary setting for the show is in academia. Bob Odenkirk’s Hank Devereaux, Jr. is a department chair of the English […] More

The following recap contains spoilers for Lucky Hank S1E2, “George Saunders” (written by Paul Lieberstein & Aaron Zelman and directed by Peter Farrelly) If you haven’t quite figured out yet whether Lucky Hank is serialized television or episodic television, don’t worry, that’s probably on purpose. As Lucky Hank tries to figure out if it wants […] More