NP but P: Cute write-up of Lodge 49 in Paste

[rich]

too bad it was cancelled after two seasons. lots of Pyncho connections
including my own thought that the actress who plays Dud's sister and is
actually English in real life, would make a good Frenesi

rich

On Sat, Aug 8, 2020 at 3:29 PM Allan Balliett <allan.balliett at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Created by: Jim Gavin
> Stars: Wyatt Russell, Brent Jennings, Sonya Cassidy, Linda Emond, David
> Pasquesi, Eric Allan Kramer
> Original Network: AMC
>
> WATCH ON HULU
> <https://www.hulu.com/series/lodge-49-5061e151-c887-4e29-9e13-c1b48e392123
> >
>
> If Jim Gavin and Peter Ocko’s quietly extraordinary fable recalls the
> blissed-out Southern California of the 1970s—shag carpet and stained wood;
> surf shops and lodges; the rakish disrepair of once-booming Long
> Beach—that’s because its subject is the disappearance of a way of life.
> Though its plot is set in motion when Dud (Wyatt Russell), a down-and-out
> beach rat reeling from the death of his father, joins a fraternal order in
> search of new purpose, Lodge 49 expands its warm, gentle embrace from there
> until its simple pleasures become almost mystical: An out-of-work newspaper
> reporter begins having visions; the laid-off employees of an aerospace
> manufacturer come together for a midnight project; a plumbing salesman
> chases his holy grail; Dud’s sister, Liz (the wickedly funny Sonya
> Cassidy), abandons ship (literally) when a dalliance with corporate culture
> becomes too much to handle. Far from uncomplicatedly nostalgic, Lodge 49
> is,
> rather, a humane, tenderhearted examination of the communities that emerge
> where others have withered, and perhaps the finest treatment of the Great
> Recession and its aftermath yet to appear on TV. —Matt Brennan
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