Review of Ivan Afanasyev

William Henry Devro - the younger (or just Hank) - the middle hand of a literature teacher and the head of the department at a small college in Pennsylvania. About ten years ago, he wrote a book, but it did not become a breakthrough and is not even absent in the local library. The new one does not go, the empty sheet of Word looks at him with reproach. Everything seems to be on the ointments with his wife, but she is a desire to leave this small town, where there are neither prospects for development, nor interest in life. And in it, this desire seems to be very much: once, discussing the literary opus of his student, he does not stand up and breaks into an angry speech about what mediocrity the author, his composition, college, town, his inhabitants, and he himself, Hank. Having said aloud this unpleasant truth (first of all, to himself), he gives rise to a logical reaction to words: now annoyed college teachers raise the question of shifting from the position, fragments from the famous quote are written in the newspapers, and the offended student requires written apologies.

On March 19, on the American television channel, AMC (“Mad people”, “Walking Dead”) started the new series “Lucky Hank” based on the book of Richard Rousseau “Direct Man”, about the literature teacher in a creative and spiritual crisis, which falls into an unpleasant situation due to his own language without bones. The star of another famous AMC series “Better Call Solu” Bob Odenkirk starred as the unsuccessful writer. Kinocritic, Ivan Afanasyev, tells why this is in some places a rather gloomy television show can actually be very useful for those who themselves are experiencing a crisis in this difficult time.

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"Lucky Hank" is a series about the teacher of literature in a creative and spiritual crisis. In the title role - Bob Odenkerk