It's fine, but not authentic King of the Hill. In the original series, Hank was a "bubba." He was old fashioned, had some backwards views on some things, but was still the first guy you turned to when you needed help. He was a guy who spanked his kid (and got reported for child abuse), forced his kid to smoke a carton of cigarettes, accused the Asian neighbor of cooking his dog (timely, eh?), often threatened to "kick your ass," locked his car doors when going through Clinton's hometown, made sexist hiring decisions, couldn't deal with his niece, and disapproved of pretty much everything his son did. He had his reasons for being this way --namely his terrible father, Cotton. But Hank was still genuinely a good guy, and you could always count on him. Hank is a rank-and-file Texan, and these days that means he'd have voted for Trump and have suspicions that Obama was born in Kenya (as 72% of all registered Republicans do.) It's kind of ugly, but that's the reality. And yet, those people are still mostly kind and the first people you would turn to when things got tough. Those contradictions are what made original Hank so compelling. Instead, the new Hank is (ugh, I hate to say it) kinda "woke." When a girl scout tells Hank that the name of Samoa cookies have changed for PC reasons, he's good with that. Original Hank would have given her a lecture about the name being an honor for the Samoan people, and that people were too think skinned. It might have been misguided by liberal standards, but true to the character. No way Hank would want the Redskins/Indians to change their name! He's a traditionalist first and foremost. He'd swallow whatever rationalization he could to keep tradition alive. This new Hank plays like a fantasy version of what a liberal Californian TV writer would like a Texan to be. Not a real Texan. And especially not a conservative leaning one.
