(James Minchin III / AMC)
Network: AMC.
Episodes: 20 (hour).
Seasons: Two.
TV show dates: August 6, 2018 — October 14, 2019.
Series status: Cancelled.
Performers include: Wyatt Russell, Brent Jennings, Sonya Cassidy, Linda Emond, David Pasquesi, and Eric Allan Kramer.
TV show description:
A drama from creator Jim Gavin, the Lodge 49 TV show is a modern-day fable that’s set in Long Beach, California. The series centers on Sean Dudley (Russell). Dud, as he is known, is a former surfer, who is still trying to come to grips with the loss of his father.
After his father dies and the family business goes belly up, Dud’s middle-class life is in tatters. He then winds up at Lodge 49, the home of the Ancient and Benevolent Order of the Lynx, a fraternal organization. Dud soon takes comfort in the enigmatic old club, its cheap beer, and unusual alchemical philosophy.
It is at Lodge 49, where Dud meets Ernie Fontaine (Jennings), who becomes his mentor. A plumbing supplies salesman by day, Ernie is also a Luminous Knight of the Order. Although Dud’s practical twin sister, Liz (Cassidy), can’t help but express her doubts about the place, Dud follows Ernie deeper into lodge-life, replete with dark secrets and conspiracy theories.
One of Lodge 49’s regulars is Long Beach Port Harbor Patrol officer Scott Mills (Kramer), a straight-forward man who loves the water and also plays drums for a cover band. Scott is the third husband of Connie (Emond), a journalist and word aficionado. Finally, lodge bartender and philosopher Blaise St. John (Pasquesi) also runs a marijuana dispensary.
For too long, Dud had just been floundering through life. Now, thanks to the lodge and its members, he starts to find a sense of purpose and begins to acknowledge both his hopes and fears.
Series Finale:
Episode #20 — The Door
The Lynx prepare for an important coronation in the revived Lodge while Liz goes for a swim.
First aired: October 14, 2019.
What do you think? Do you like the Lodge 49 TV series? Should this AMC TV show have been cancelled or renewed for a third season?
Best show we’ve watched during all of the pandemic!!
Bring it back please
Action, adventure, friendship, exciting plot lines!! Lovable characters. Cool set. We would love to watch season 3
LOVED THIS SHOW!! Kept wondering when, where it was going to COME BACK. Damn it PAINS ME TO HEAR THIS. WHY? Every time a good show comes along they Yank the Rug or rather YANK THE SHOW FROM ME.
How about NETFLIX? Surely they’d do a “limited series”, five 2 hour episodes…how much $ is necessary to film Season 3? Surely we could save the lodge with go fund me, right???
this happens allot with amc shows you get involved and anxiously await the next season and then bam! some corporate big head makes a stupid decision to pull the plug on a excellent different show that more people watch than their poll shows. there are millions of viewers that enjoyed lodge 49 and we’re 2 of them.
don’t stop now, i have to see what happens next. i hope you can find a way to continue this great show.
How could they possibly leave so many fans hanging like that?? Too many questions that need answers. At least make a last episode for things to be wrapped up
No say it isn’t so. We are being left at a cliffhanger. Why even make a series if you aren’t going to finish it. It’s RUDE as can be to do that to people who have invested their time in a story to just say shows over go home.
Lodge 49 cannot be canceled, the show is quirky, light hearted and a fantastic journey that I look forward to each week. You never know from week to week what will pop up and the individual characters..well we can relate with each one of them.
Add me to the list of passionate fans. It has a charm and depth rarely seen on large or small screens. Giamatti is right; it’s weird and there are other weird shows, but Lodge 49 explored areas of mysticism and esoterica in a way that was utterly unique. The beauty of it was the interpenetration of, on the one hand, people just trying to live their mundane lives in Southern California, while at the same time in contact with something ancient, ineffable, and cosmic.
Delightful and well written. What TV needed. Not another reality show or singing-dance competition. Please bring it back
It’s a good show
Bring it back.
This is a gem of a show, exactly the type that tv needs. Save it!
I love this show,,, AMC is making a mistake canceling it