Every week I look forward to the new episode of Lucky Hank, the new AMC series starring Bob Odenkirk, and based on a novel by Richard Russo, and every week I'm mildly disappointed. Odenkirk plays an English professor at a small Pennsylvania college (I majored in English at a small Pennsylvania college) so the show has obvious interest for me. But as often with such shows - not that there are a lot of them - this one demonstrates a strained relationship with reality, particularly in its portrayal of the English faculty. College professors may be petty, but they're not juvenile - revving their car engines, for instance, under a colleague's office window so she can't have a consultation with a student; barging in on a colleague's class because of a need to talk. When scenes are so far out of the realm of possibility, they put the whole show into question.
