signs and symbols: AMC's LODGE 49

I was a little worried about that. Haven't read any reviews and had considered checking the hivemind here before watching

most people seem to like it but I'm finding it kind of unbearable

the promos seem to be very portentous and packed with recognizable actors, which often does not bode well

not to mention a vague title and even vaguer trailers.

the gospel is spreading (don't worry too much about the specific meaning of this tweet)

Lodge 49 is the most grillpilled show I’ve ever seen.

— grillpilled_cushbomb (@cushbomb) June 15, 2020

there's a song on the new rolling blackouts coastal fever called 'beautiful steven' and it can't help but remind me of ernie's nemesis beautiful jeff

Still no sign of the second season in the UK so guess I'm going to have to torrent it

do itttt

Just watched the first Bruce Campbell episode and this show is a delight

I’m done with jokes about an ilx commune post-covid

I want an ilx Lodge

i thought i already said this on here but i guess not: if you liked Lodge 49, you should also watch Patriot on Amazon Prime if you haven't already. there are plenty of differences but they are both comedies with strong undercurrents of sadness and big ensemble casts of interesting characters.

Just watched the trailer and I remembered why I stopped watching that in the first 5 minutes - the protagonist casually kills someone over a job interview. That's not mellow.

he isn't dead! but yeah it is a lot more stressful than Lodge 49

Lodge 49 is so damn good, I keep rewatching it mainly due to recommending it to people and then days/weeks later having them want to dive into convos about the show and I want to be fully present and reoriented.

Finished this last night (after putting off watching the final episodes, like some others mentioned), so good. Really too bad it didn't get another season, but also kind of amazing that it got made in the first place.

I had no idea I'd seen Brett Jennings before L49... but he played Ron Washington in Moneyball.

Just realized that Dud's limp when he walks is awfully reminiscent of Snake Plissken's after he takes a crossbow bolt to the leg.

just thought about Brent Jennings in s2 and welled up a bit

finished this last night and i just need to say: man, this show

everyone needs to watch it

♥️

Got a few left of season 2 to go. At first I was a bit disappointed in the shift away from the hare-brained mystery arc but appreciating it much more now.

I have nothing to say that hasn't been said but fuck it's so good. Doesn't hurt that the surf hauntology soundtrack is just dead center in the venn diagram of a lot of my genre loves.

Maybe I just want Mary Elizabeth Ellis back.

there is approx a 100 percent chance i will rewatch this within a year

Wyatt Russell was quoted in Vanity Fair last week saying that if Jim Gavin ever wants to do a L49 movie or if the series somehow gets picked up, he would drop everything to rejoin the project.

It's never going to happen but it's nice to dream

eh, if a Party Down re-boot can happen a decade after the fact, it's not so insane to think a Lodge 49 one could happen someday, too.

hopefully his MCU character gets killed off soon lol

There was a zoom event last night featuring Charles Yu (L49 staff writer for s1, sole writer for s1e6 which is imho the best L49 episode) for the SF Book Festival, and just so happened to be hosted by Jim Gavin. It ran about 1 hour and focused on Charles' work in the speculative fiction realm, his awards and accolades including winning a major award (National Book Award - Fiction) mid-pandemic for Interior Chinatown, violence/malevolence towards Asians/Asian-Americans, coming from an unusual background (pre-med/law school/model-minority), Asian-Americans underrepresentation in the arts, but mostly Charles' process of writing and honing his craft.

These guys are obviously good friends so it was often silly and light-hearted compared to a stuffy reading of Charles' resumé and bibliography which in someone else's hands the event could have been.

Yet even though the spotlight was on Charles, he gave Jim and Lodge 49 deep, heartfelt compliments at every opportunity (seriously, maybe 20-25% of the talk was Lodge 49-adjacent, just on Charles' behalf!).

I'll check to see if it gets posted on the 'tube.

(Also I had no idea that Charles was Kelvin Yu's brother!)

love both lodge 49 and interior chinatown so please keep posted!

totally didn't realize that charles yu wrote for it tho, i know he worked on westworld

as if on command:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ra9wZeh1lS0

thanks for that!

rewatching my fave ep, 2.06 ("circles")....so much great stuff. "are you ready for an evening of gargantuan horror?"

"every man eventually shoots another man. it's a rite of passage."

man what a great show, what a sad way to go out

just finished this, what a beautiful miracle of a show

It pains me that I can't find S2 anywhere - it's just not available in the UK, even to purchase. I'm too out of practice to know where 'else' to look and the few places I've checked aren't giving me anything. ARGH.

Was the same. Argh!
I found a t0rr3nce of it (still not watched though!) so feel free to contact me via user name

This reminds me — I still need to reply to your lovely email from last year! I can also send a link to a w3transfer if that works.

Hey Chinaski - would a VPN that shows you as being in the US work? I think Hulu here has both seasons.

I've fiddled with a VPN before and couldn't get my head around it (I think I've finally ascended to the cloudy realm of learned helplessness). Which is to say, Chuck_Tatum, I would absolutely welcome seeds/We Transfer files!

I ended up downloading s2 on Slsk

Admittedly I'm slightly under the influence (Dextromethorphan HBr 30 mg) but "Souvlaki Space Station" came on shuffle and I'm hearing a dubbier version of the Lodge 49 theme in certain (quieter?) parts... anyone hearing that?

UK folx:

Lodge 49 is now available to stream on ITVX.

god I love this show