


He wrote a novel that no one read, yet his father's retirement from the academic literary world was covered by the New York Times. The Emmy-nominated actor hopes viewers will next take to him in the dark comedy series AMC's “ Lucky Hank,” debuting Sunday, as Hank Devereaux, a college English professor who is department chair at an underfunded college, going through an identity crisis.

He played the underhanded, calculating lawyer on “Breaking Bad” and then for six seasons on “ Better Call Saul. Bob Odenkirk loves Saul Goodman, but he's also ready to leave the character behind.
