Lodge 49has beencanceled by AMC, so now is the moment for the glorious ascension ofLodge 49.
The producers are shopping the series.
Infinite networks with infinite airtime will find room for such a wondrous TV experience.
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I have tried to explain the series before.
I praisedthe splendid first season, currently streaming on Hulu.
Still, it’s important to describe just what preciselyLodge 49has accomplished.
Dud, for his part, seems to carry the whole existential weight of the lonely modern age.
Coincidence leads to destiny.
Dud finds a ring emblazoned with the logo of the Ancient and Benevolent Order of the Lynx.
It’s a Freemason-ish organization, a global social club whose outposts tend to feature a hangout tavern.
The local Lynx organization operates out of the Lodge numbered 49.
That’s where Dud meets the other (real?)
hero of the series, Ernie Fontaine (Brent Jennings.)
The Lynx have fallen on hard times.
Everyone onLodge 49is struggling through confusing circumstances.
OnLodge 49, you might’t judge any book by its cover.
Very few Lynx members really believe in the order’s alchemical mysticism but miracles do seem to keep happening.
That becomes an obsession for Blaise (David Pasquesi), the local philosopher-slash-marijuana-dispenser.
Actually, everyone is some kind of local philosopher.
ButLodge 49also moves at the leisurely, gentle pace of a cheerful sitcom.
Events trend absurd, and guest stars stun.
Why is there already a hole in that map of the world?
The whole cast is doing career work.
And Jennings is the sensitive everyman our wounded nation needs.
There was a time, not so long ago, when 2019’s mainstream entertainment was cult material.
The show had small ratings in a crowded cable landscape, and it still grew a dedicated following.
Membership will keep climbing.
The show will continue.
The door will open, I know it will.
