Pilot
- Episode aired Mar 16, 2023
- 44m
IMDb RATING
7.3/10
767
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Hank rants against Railton College, calling it "Mediocrity's Capitol," and the administration is pressured to fire him. Hank and Lily contemplate a future outside of Railton.Hank rants against Railton College, calling it "Mediocrity's Capitol," and the administration is pressured to fire him. Hank and Lily contemplate a future outside of Railton.Hank rants against Railton College, calling it "Mediocrity's Capitol," and the administration is pressured to fire him. Hank and Lily contemplate a future outside of Railton.
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Sara Amini
- Meg Quigley
- (credit only)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaBecoming a Department Head at a College or University, is seen as a form of "failing up" (ability to advance in your career, for example: being promoted, finding a better job, despite demonstrating mediocre talent) instead of a great honor, and is passing among the faculty on a rotating basis, after serving a term of several years. The reasons being: bureaucratic procedures that must be observed, paperwork, drafting a budget, as well as dealing with conflicting personalities within the department.
- GoofsWhen Gracie smacks Hank in the face with her notebook and it snags painfully onto his nose, he instructs her to let go, to which she objects "But it has original research!", as if letting it go would destroy it or otherwise deprive her of it forever. This is an intelligent woman, a university professor, she should understand that this "letting go" need only be temporary, he only needs the notebook for a moment, just long enough to gently dislodge it from his face, she would clearly immediately get it back.
- ConnectionsReferences The Accused (1988)
- SoundtracksI Started a Joke
written by Barry, Robin and Maurice Gibb
performed by the Bee Gees
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The pilot feels like a filler episode of a series in its second season and doesn't have to prove anything anymore... that's NOT a good way to START...
Okay, let's literally begin at the top, the summary:
"Hank rants against Railton College, calling it Mediocrity's Capitol and the administration is pressured to fire him.'
This is followed by:
"Hank and Lily contemplate a future outside of Railton."
The first part happens within the first five minutes, and would have worked better without being spoiled, and the second reads like something the audience should wind up carrying about...
"Future outside of Railton" is supposed to matter, somehow?
But after forty minutes, we don't know one thing about this college except that the title character simply doesn't want to be there...
Meanwhile, the main gimmick is Hank's inner monologue... his narration... which would work better, and would make him far more interesting, if he actually SPOKE these comparably blunt opinions that he's keeping to himself...
The audience and the characters surrounding LUCKY HANK have no idea how to deal with this person that an entire series is supposed to be based around... and if he doesn't outwardly care about anything, why should they, and, most important...
Why should we?
For an AMC series, LUCKY HANK doesn't feel like it's coming from the channel that has provided quality shows, other than just the obvious, Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul... it feels more like a network series, or an idea for a network series without being fully developed...
Mundane is the best word to describe a deliberately droll collegiate series that's supposed to be so dry that it intellectually rises above the dreariness it's conveying...
But it's simply trying too hard not to matter, and so it doesn't matter at all.
Okay, let's literally begin at the top, the summary:
"Hank rants against Railton College, calling it Mediocrity's Capitol and the administration is pressured to fire him.'
This is followed by:
"Hank and Lily contemplate a future outside of Railton."
The first part happens within the first five minutes, and would have worked better without being spoiled, and the second reads like something the audience should wind up carrying about...
"Future outside of Railton" is supposed to matter, somehow?
But after forty minutes, we don't know one thing about this college except that the title character simply doesn't want to be there...
Meanwhile, the main gimmick is Hank's inner monologue... his narration... which would work better, and would make him far more interesting, if he actually SPOKE these comparably blunt opinions that he's keeping to himself...
The audience and the characters surrounding LUCKY HANK have no idea how to deal with this person that an entire series is supposed to be based around... and if he doesn't outwardly care about anything, why should they, and, most important...
Why should we?
For an AMC series, LUCKY HANK doesn't feel like it's coming from the channel that has provided quality shows, other than just the obvious, Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul... it feels more like a network series, or an idea for a network series without being fully developed...
Mundane is the best word to describe a deliberately droll collegiate series that's supposed to be so dry that it intellectually rises above the dreariness it's conveying...
But it's simply trying too hard not to matter, and so it doesn't matter at all.
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- TheFearmakers
- Mar 21, 2023
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