Lucky Hank

William Henry "Hank" Devereaux, Jr., who is spiritually suited to playing left field but is forced by a bad hamstring to try first base, becomes the unlikely chairman of the English department at West Central Pennsylvania University. Over the course of an exceedingly convoluted week, he threatens to execute a duck, has his nose slashed by a feminist poet, discovers that his secretary writes much better fiction than he does, suspects his wife of having an illicit affair with his dean, and finally confronts his philandering elderly father— the once king of American Literary Theory— at an abandoned amusement park. Lucky Hank is an American comedy-drama developed by Paul Lieberstein and Aaron Zelman. Based on the 1997 novel Straight Man by Richard Russo, the series features performances from Bob Odenkirk, Mireille Enos, Sara Amini, Diedrich Bader, Suzanne Cryer, Olivia Scott Welch, and Cedric Yarbrough.