"Ethan Hawke's face, an angular, beautiful cinematic presence since Dead Poets Society, gets put through the wringer on The Lowdown. In the closing minutes of the pilot, we see him behind the wheel, bloodied and gashed, left eye swollen shut, teeth smeared with red. The image grips you, but its gnarliness is undercut by absurdity: He's laughing maniacally, having cheated death through no effort of his own."
"Hawke plays Lee Raybon, a self-described "truthstorian" who runs a rare-books shop in Tulsa, Oklahoma, but moonlights as a citizen journalist - or is it the other way around? - filing longform investigations for a scrappy local magazine, The Heartland Press. The series kicks off when Dale Washberg (Tim Blake Nelson), a member of a powerful Oklahoma family, pens a suicide note, hides it inside a book on his shelves, and then shoots himself in the head."
Sterlin Harjo follows Reservation Dogs with The Lowdown, a Tulsa-set series that riffs on mid-century noirs and hard-boiled detective fiction. Ethan Hawke portrays Lee Raybon, a mangy rare-bookseller and self-described "truthstorian" who moonlights as a citizen journalist for The Heartland Press. The plot begins when Dale Washberg, scion of a powerful Oklahoma family, pens a suicide note, hides it in a book, and shoots himself, prompting Lee's suspicion of a cover-up. The show blends dark comic absurdity, fatalism, and regional specificity, recasting noir tropes through sly humor and lived-in character detail.
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