Lodge 49 season two, episode two recap: The Slide
By Luke Lucas
Everyone goes down “The Slide” this week on Lodge 49. Are Dud and Ernie cool? How does Dud’s business fair? How many hugs does Liz need? We’ve got answers!
“The Slide” was written by series creator Jim Gavin and directed by Jake Schreier (Shameless). Most of the characters on Lodge 49 have been headed towards rock bottom since last season. Some of them may get there this week. But, there aren’t a lot of negative consequences for any of our heroes. They either have a little ways yet to slide or Lodge 49 is going full Pynchon. It’s a lot of fun to watch how quickly the angst pays off. There’s no room for melodrama here. Actions have consequences. Eventually. Maybe. We think.
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In between last week’s “All Circles Vanish” and this week, Dud (Wyatt Russell) and Ernie (Brent Jennings) work things out. To make up for his ghosting of Dud, Ernie agrees to drive Dud around while he tries to sell his pool cleaning service to his dad’s old clients. Ernie doesn’t have a lot going on at Super Sales. He’s still not earning. And Bob (Brian Doyle-Murray) is more interested in Beautiful Jeff’s (Michael Lee Kimel) paint ball exploits.
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Bob does invite Ernie to a golf outing with a big account (Joel Murray). Ernie tries to use a positive outlook towards life, but when he keeps whiffing on a ball in a bunker, the big account won’t stop busting his chops over it. Ernie loses his cool and sprays the big account with bunker sand. After that, Bob places Ernie on the orders desk. He has to be a desk jockey for the first time since he started at Super Sales.
Ernie is dejected and heads to the Lodge. There’s no one there since Scott (Eric Allan Kramer) called in all of the bar tabs. But Ernie has some cash. His trusty buddy Dud shows up to get properly blasted with him. On the way out of the Lodge the next morning, Dud notices that Ernie is driving El Confidente’s (Cheech Marin) van. Ernie relents and decides that it’s time to tell Dud what happened at the end of last season.