'Lodge 49' is too good for this world. Which is exactly why AMC should keep it around
"On some days, all of the beautiful things in my life break my heart."
So says Sean "Dud" Dudley, played by Wyatt Russell, in the beautiful, some days heartbreaking serial comedy "Lodge 49," whose second season finished Monday on AMC.
Set in Long Beach, Calif., the story centers on Dud, a surfer kept from the water by injury (snake bite in Season 1, shark bite in Season 2); his more practical, equally lost sister Liz (Sonya Cassidy); Dud's friend and sometimes reluctant mentor, Ernie (Brent Jennings), a plumbing supplies salesman; and the Ancient and Benevolent Order of the Lynx, the quasi-Masonic organization into which Dud stumbles at the start of Season 1, and the family he finds there. "Home," the poet wrote, "is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in" - as much as they may hate to. On that premise,
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