Lodge 49

I live in Long Beach, and it's been filming around here for quite some time. I felt obligated to watch it out of city pride.

It's not bad, but I didn't think it was awesome either. I'll give it a couple more episodes.

I think the lead is Kurt Russell and Goldie Hawn’s son.

Hey you're right, R2.

Wyatt Hawn Russell. I never would have guessed.

He's actually not a bad actor.

Poor Wyatt.

He's not nearly attractive as Goldie, Kurt, Kate, or Oliver.

I also wish he would lose the beard.

He's good in this. I had a bff in my 20's like this character, a mentally ill n'are do well but with charm and a good heart. It did not end well. I am on episode 2. They are going to make this a magical realism type fairy tale. I don't like that the black guy stole 2k from him, AFTER hearing the young man's sob story of financial and family ruin.

How is Diddy involved?

I'm loving this. I just binge watched six episodes. There's a gay subplot and a sort of gay subplot. It's not a huge part of it by any means, but it's nice to see two men kiss and a few pairs of men show affection towards each other.

I also thought the bit where the sister is showing the new employee the ropes, and the new employee literally runs away from the job, was hilarious.

I know one of the people involved was involved with Pushing Daisies which I loved and this has a similar vibe but minus the enormous dose of twee.

And I also like that there is absolutely nothing glamorous about the jobs everyone has to do.

Please no spoilers, R6.

R4 he must have gotten the leftover genes.

He reasonably attractive on the show. Has a lanky, unbuilt body.

He's very sweet and oddly loveable in the show.

He's an attractive guy. He definitely resembles both his parents. You can tell especially when he's not sporting the red beard.

If you only watch a show for the eye candy, shouldn't you just stick to the CW? They certainly have a surfeit of young pretty performers few of whom can actually act. But that's what you usually get when you rest on pretty: little talent.

But hey, "shallow be thy name" has taken a lot of people very far. Not to any place I'd want to be, but you can't say shallow people don't travel.

did anyone catch the 2nd episode?

how was it?

R4 - Oiver and Kate don't have the same father as Wyatt.

So what's the bisexuality that's supposed to be in Lodge 49, and between whom?

Yes, Wyatt Russell is Kurt & Goldie's son.

He was terrific in EVERYBODY WANTS SOME! and 22 JUMP STREET.

I am really loving Wyatt on this show.

His character is so sweet and endearing. Wyatt's certainly not the hottest actor on television. Probably not even in the top 50%. But he's a good actor, and he's very likable.

I'm really loving the show.

Wyatt Russell is the heart of the show, and he is so endearing.

Who doesn't love a good-hearted slacker?

Am hoping to catch up with this show. I saw Wyatt last week in Table 19 (a small, good little comedy) in which he has an absolutely stunning knock-out scene. I had no idea who he was, but he was so good that, after the movie, I looked him up on IMDB & discovered he's Kurt's and Goldie's kid. Apparently, wanted to be in professional hockey but had an injury so has now taken the acting road... and, man, was that a right decision - this kid has the talent!

True that he was in hockey. He moved to Vancouver to play and Goldie was there for a while. I came across her once in a store on South Granville. She had the hugest sunglasses on. That was a while ago.

This show grows on you.

New episode tonight.

I just saw said episode, and it went too far. Not funny, weird for the sake of being weird and cliche 2010s snark sarcasm. Too much going on. Needs more basis in reality. Has that “The Good Place” unreal quality.

That's a bummer, R22.

Up until now, it was a pretty good show.

I'm surprised nobody's watching.

There was even a gay angle on the previous episode. Hate the sister becoming a business exec, though.

Somehow, I think that Doug's involvement with "The Captain" is going to torpedo her new career. Just a hunch.

This latest episode was completely bizarre and hilarious.

Freakin' awesome.

Wyatt Russell is so hot. I think shaving that beard would REALLY change that in a bad way--at least for me. Besides his character wouldn't shave. I love the show. Kinda "Big Lebowski"-ish.

I've really gotten into this show. It's different, and hilarious, and sometimes deeply touching, out of nowhere. I love these characters. It's a shame the ratings aren't that good, hopefully that won't matter much to AMC and they renew it.

I love the Blaise character. He's gay and he's smart. And he's also not a stereotype.

Here's a good review of Lodge 49 from EW. I love how the snarky writer calls AMC the "Walking Dead network."

"There’s something so cruel about California’s beauty. A lot of somethings, actually: Sundappled beaches alongside skyrocketing housing costs, short miles gridlocking long hours into eternal rush hour, boom industries fading, culturally profound neighborhoods gentrifying, rains that won’t come, fires that will.

AMC’s Lodge 49 is one of the brightest-looking shows on TV. It’s set in a Long Beach, Calif., a port city imagined with radiant ocean blues and golf course greens. Wyatt Russell stars as nomadic ex-surfer Dud, and Russell himself is one California Dream: seafoam shirt, perpetual flip-flops, blonde Dennis Wilson beard framed by golden Beach Jesus locks, that wild hair atop a lanky-tall frame collectively suggesting palm tree topped with sunshine fronds. But Dud is suffering, and so is his whole world. On Lodge 49, the good life is right here but long gone, a beach with a full parking lot, a job you just got fired from.

Last year, a snake bit Dud’s ankle, and his wound hasn’t healed. That origin sentence fell-swoops three flavors of myth: Edenic serpent, Achilles’ foot problems, the Fisher King maimed in perpetual agony. Lodge 49 isn’t quite a supernatural series, but Dud’s injury implicitly extends to (or reflects back from) a broken society around him. Dud’s father died on a mysterious swim, leaving his sister Liz (Sonya Cassidy) to inherit Dad’s crippling debt. Death plus debt closed the family’s pool supply store, now an empty storefront awaiting tenants: Right here, long gone. And Long Beach suffers. Aerospace factories and office parks go empty from layoffs. Oil derricks dot the landscape, leftover from half-remembered booms. Billboards around town ask “Is There Another Way To Live?” It’s an advertisement for redevelopment, maybe, or maybe the answer is just “No.”

Dud’s life changes when he discovers the Ancient and Benevolent Order of the Lynx, a Freemason-ish society with headquarters in London and a spiritual philosophy rooted in alchemy. The local Lynx outpost, Lodge 49, was once a bustling community center. Now it’s fallen on hard times, its membership middle-aged and jobless. But the first wonderful thing about Lodge 49 is how seriously it takes the unifying possibility of even the most broken community. The Lodge has a bar, and ceremonies the members all celebrate even while they smirk at the mysticism. There is a recurring Band Night where a local harbor patrolman plays surf rock with an outfit called Don Fab and the Longshoreman.

Dud very Holy Fool-ishly falls under the Lodge’s spell. Two other characters have more complicated perspectives. His Lynx “mentor” is Ernie (Brent Jennings), a 59-year-old industrial plumbing salesman. A lifetime jobber in the line of work Arthur Miller wrote American tragedies about, Ernie’s on the hunt for a big score. His quest follows that redevelopment, those billboards, and a mysterious local business tycoon only known as “Captain.” In Lodge 49‘s playful-sincere treatment, the Pursuit of a Real Big Toilet Supply Sale has become a season-long mytharc. When Ernie finds Captain in episode 8, he declares: “Here I am at the center of the maze!” That could be a line from Westworld or Legion, but only on Lodge 49 does a metaphorical maze end with Bruce Campbell in a kiddie pool pouring himself a Blood Mary under the desert sun.

Jennings, a journeyman actor in everything since the ’80s, is fabulous. Ernie could just be the buddy-cop superego opposite Dud’s id, but the more you watch Lodge 49, the more you suspect he’s the real hero. He’s got the romantic subplot, a renewed affair with his long-ago high school sweetheart Connie (Linda Emond). Connie’s a Lynx. So is her husband, Scott (Eric Allan Kramer), who also happens to be Ernie’s main competition for the job of Sovereign Protector, the fancy Lynx term for Lodge chieftain.

Here's a good review of Lodge 49 from EW. I love how the snarky writer calls AMC the "Walking Dead network."

"There’s something so cruel about California’s beauty. A lot of somethings, actually: Sundappled beaches alongside skyrocketing housing costs, short miles gridlocking long hours into eternal rush hour, boom industries fading, culturally profound neighborhoods gentrifying, rains that won’t come, fires that will.

AMC’s Lodge 49 is one of the brightest-looking shows on TV. It’s set in a Long Beach, Calif., a port city imagined with radiant ocean blues and golf course greens. Wyatt Russell stars as nomadic ex-surfer Dud, and Russell himself is one California Dream: seafoam shirt, perpetual flip-flops, blonde Dennis Wilson beard framed by golden Beach Jesus locks, that wild hair atop a lanky-tall frame collectively suggesting palm tree topped with sunshine fronds. But Dud is suffering, and so is his whole world. On Lodge 49, the good life is right here but long gone, a beach with a full parking lot, a job you just got fired from.

Last year, a snake bit Dud’s ankle, and his wound hasn’t healed. That origin sentence fell-swoops three flavors of myth: Edenic serpent, Achilles’ foot problems, the Fisher King maimed in perpetual agony. Lodge 49 isn’t quite a supernatural series, but Dud’s injury implicitly extends to (or reflects back from) a broken society around him. Dud’s father died on a mysterious swim, leaving his sister Liz (Sonya Cassidy) to inherit Dad’s crippling debt. Death plus debt closed the family’s pool supply store, now an empty storefront awaiting tenants: Right here, long gone. And Long Beach suffers. Aerospace factories and office parks go empty from layoffs. Oil derricks dot the landscape, leftover from half-remembered booms. Billboards around town ask “Is There Another Way To Live?” It’s an advertisement for redevelopment, maybe, or maybe the answer is just “No.”

Dud’s life changes when he discovers the Ancient and Benevolent Order of the Lynx, a Freemason-ish society with headquarters in London and a spiritual philosophy rooted in alchemy. The local Lynx outpost, Lodge 49, was once a bustling community center. Now it’s fallen on hard times, its membership middle-aged and jobless. But the first wonderful thing about Lodge 49 is how seriously it takes the unifying possibility of even the most broken community. The Lodge has a bar, and ceremonies the members all celebrate even while they smirk at the mysticism. There is a recurring Band Night where a local harbor patrolman plays surf rock with an outfit called Don Fab and the Longshoreman.

Dud very Holy Fool-ishly falls under the Lodge’s spell. Two other characters have more complicated perspectives. His Lynx “mentor” is Ernie (Brent Jennings), a 59-year-old industrial plumbing salesman. A lifetime jobber in the line of work Arthur Miller wrote American tragedies about, Ernie’s on the hunt for a big score. His quest follows that redevelopment, those billboards, and a mysterious local business tycoon only known as “Captain.” In Lodge 49‘s playful-sincere treatment, the Pursuit of a Real Big Toilet Supply Sale has become a season-long mytharc. When Ernie finds Captain in episode 8, he declares: “Here I am at the center of the maze!” That could be a line from Westworld or Legion, but only on Lodge 49 does a metaphorical maze end with Bruce Campbell in a kiddie pool pouring himself a Blood Mary under the desert sun.

Jennings, a journeyman actor in everything since the ’80s, is fabulous. Ernie could just be the buddy-cop superego opposite Dud’s id, but the more you watch Lodge 49, the more you suspect he’s the real hero. He’s got the romantic subplot, a renewed affair with his long-ago high school sweetheart Connie (Linda Emond). Connie’s a Lynx. So is her husband, Scott (Eric Allan Kramer), who also happens to be Ernie’s main competition for the job of Sovereign Protector, the fancy Lynx term for Lodge chieftain.

Or the hero could be Liz, Dud’s sister, a person so cynical you imagine she must just be reading all the headlines we are. Liz works at Shamroxx, basically Hooters but more Irish. Lodge 49‘s first season, which ends next Monday, has sent its characters on zig-zag tangent journeys; there was a mummy, some secret scrolls lost in Mexico, that one time an oil derrick pumpjack turned into a dragon. Liz’ arc has been relatively “normal,” climbing the professional ladder from waitress to executive class, Cassidy greeting every incident with a fiery humor that might be suicidal depression.

But on Lodge 49, capitalist normality is the height of surrealism, another language people only pretend to speak. Liz attends a corporate seminar whose philosophy is itself a kind of alchemy. “A bullwhip, a chalice, a snow globe!” proclaims a cultish executive (Vik Sahay). “Out of these objects, you will dreamstorm a marketing plan for your shadowchain!”

AMC dreamstormed an unusual marketing plan for Lodge 49‘s shadowchain, releasing the entire series on the AMC Premiere service while also playing it weekly after Better Call Saul. The Walking Dead network has been angling in funky directions this year, with the frozen slow-burn horror of The Terror and the headline-ripping surrealism of Dietland. The latter was canceled. The former lost viewers. Lodge 49‘s ratings haven’t been high. Maybe it’s a tough sell. Creator Jim Gavin kersmashes a thousand different ideas into Lodge 49, and some of the whimsies can feel weightless. The early episodes took time to find their groove, and as with anything aiming for “Tragicomic Magical Realism,” there’s a running danger that everything will go flying off the rails. (Wait till you see what happens to Bruce Campbell.) It’s my favorite new drama of the year, but right up until the final moments of the season finale (airing Oct. 8) I would’ve believed it was actually a comedy.

In an age of blandly bleak big TV, Gavin and showrunner Peter Ocko have produced a sweetly humane portrait of community, alive with strangeness, brutal pessimism, the possibility of better days ahead. In the splendid season 1 finale, Ernie gets one kind of final word. “I have to grind just to make it month to month,” he tells Dud. “I’m not a knight. I’m a toilet salesman.” In Lodge 49‘s sweetly grand vision, he’s both."

Really want to make sweet, sweet love to Dud (the son of Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell).

I think that Eric Allan Kramer who plays the beefy cop, is the hottest guy on the show.

Season finale tonight, if anyone cares.

Will be watching tomorrow, but i don't mind spoilers if you want to post something later, R34.

This show speaks to me like no other.

It is such an amazing commentary on modern life in the US, and it gets to the heart of what a lot of people are experiencing and feeling.

R35, the finale was absolutely terrific. I can honestly say that I've enjoyed every single episode of this show this season, and I never say that about any show.

But with the finale in particular, the writing and the acting were just top notch.

I really hope the show gets renewed.

It got renewed last week. Thank goodness. I want to spend more time with these characters.

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Love this show. It's quirk personified.

Thanks to the recommendation I binge watched it and it's indeed quite nice. Loved the guest appearance of Bruce Campell and his physical comedy bit trying to get into his own home.

So, was Larry in love with Ernie? He said that Ernie was his gift.

I am downloading it now.

Love how subtle the show is with the supernatural mystery. Like Dud being able to resurrect the rat that got stuck in the pool filter system or Liz having the urge to run to the beach beause she senses her brother is in danger.

I can so relate to Liz doing stupid shit to self-sabotage herself (like, out of nowhere, jumping off the boat). Plus her and her brother's viewing habits.

Just watched two episodes..It kind of reminds me of that Laura Dern show which was kind of cruel but also had major moments of beauty. Does anyone remember that? Also if you want a truly hilarious show, I'm Sorry on TruTv is a sure bet.

Enlightened, r44. Great show.

Season 2 thread.