After a catastrophe have destroyed all his family's business, the young Dud walks on his face till he reaches a rundown fraternal lodge, Lodge 49. There, he meets a man in his middle age called Ernie. Quickly they become friends and go through exciting comedy events together.
In its oddly gentle, gently odd and entirely distinct way, Lodge 49 makes as good an argument for the existence of a kind of shabby everyday magic as you'll find anywhere.
The shaggy-doggedness of the story line is impressive given the paucity of plot. As if striving to keep calm enough to meditate, Lodge 49 achieves a freakishly leisurely pace.
One of the hardest things in visual art is creating a universe that feels simultaneously real and also guided by the hand of a capable storyteller. Lodge 49, like Better Call Saul, gets that exactly correct from the very get-go.
