ob Odenkirk’s return to AMC, eight months after the show-stopping finale of gets off to a worrisome start. As the title character of the cranky, professionally stunted chair of the English department at fictional Railton College, he delivers a writing-workshop rant (declaring the school a “mediocrity capital”) that makes him a campus pariah. Hank’s position is suddenly in jeopardy. His wife (Mireille Enos), a cheery high school vice principal, craves change. And their 20-something daughter (Olivia Scott Welch) needs money. Again.
