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Review: In AMC's sweet 'Lodge 49,' the mundane meets the marvelous

If I wind up sounding a little daffy on the subject of "Lodge 49," a 10-part series that was to begin Monday on AMC, it is in part that it feels like I have been sent a gift, tailor-made to my sensibilities. An hourlong comedy, rich with dramatic complication and depth of feeling, it is not without crises and conflicts, but it is also not weighed down with murders or monsters. No one here has a superpower - few have any power at all, for that matter, and even then it's mostly the illusion of

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