The second season starts with new events when things change in the pool shop and are under new ownership in a long time. Now, it seems that Dud is recovering from a penny attack while trying to search for Ernie and Ernie deals during that period after his adventure with El Convento not long ago, and Liz decided to continue his career at TempJoy.
For viewers who are tuned to that distinct wavelength, Lodge 49 continues to be a unique gem whose continuation during the age of Peak TV is nothing short of a miracle itself.
Lodge 49 is a show that's all over the place and yet feels elegantly and confidently arced, rather than haphazard. It's silly and profound, deep and frivolous.
Lodge 49 has big ambitions - it's a series primarily about why American society feels like it's coming apart at the seams, after all - beneath its easygoing sensibility.
Jim Gavin's show is yearning, idiosyncratic, and sleepy to a fault, a sun-baked couch nap that cares deeply about its charming extended cast of characters.
What comes next is a series of strange and fascinating tableaux which, although I'm happy to let this beautiful show just wash over me, I couldn't resist pausing and rewinding in order to make sense of the iconography.
The show's second season pushes its story to new heights, but on top of the engaging mystery and lovable characters, Lodge 49 is a wonderfully funny series that wields a strange, dark wit for big laughs.
Lodge 49 is both whimsical and pragmatic, a cacophonous collection of divergent ideologies that through some bewildering alchemy not only works but thrives.
If Lodge 49 often seems to be about nothing, it also manages to say a lot about everything: hopes and dreams and disappointments, and finding reasons to go on when there doesn't seem to be much point.
