Overview

• The Lowdown debuted Tuesday on FX with next-day streaming on Hulu, with international streaming on Disney+ not specified in these reports.
• Ethan Hawke plays Lee Raybon, a self-described truthstorian and citizen journalist fixated on a powerful Tulsa family, alongside co-stars Keith David, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Tim Blake Nelson and Kyle MacLachlan.
• Creator Sterlin Harjo sets the series in Tulsa with a neo-noir tone that engages the city’s darker past, including references to the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre.
• Harjo cites real-life Tulsa journalist Lee Roy Chapman and his This Land Press work as key inspiration for Hawke’s character.
• Paulina Alexis appears in the premiere as Willie Jack, and Harjo confirms the show shares a universe with Reservation Dogs, while expressing hopes for future seasons with new investigations.