On Disney+ came The Lowdown, a series of 8 episodes created by Sterlin Harajo with Ethan Hawke as the protagonist, as a journalist, writer and libraio who self-defined historical “truthstorian” of truth. Vaguely inspired by the life of the historian Lee Roy Chapman of Tulsa, Oklahoma activist and historian, the series was called a neo-noir, a neo-western drama and comedy, but undoubtedly is one of the best TV series of the year. Released last September on FX arrived with guilty delay on Disney+ in Italy, while its name bounced among the charts of the end of the year realized in the USA (sometimes badly copied from pages and also Italian sites).
Sterlin Harajo had already surprised everyone by recounting the reality of young people within the reserves of Native Americans in Reservation Dogs, this time he remains faithful to the themes related to local communities, the rights of minorities, widening his gaze to local politics and corruption with a more structured TV series, built as a noir but infarction of irony. Because only a disillusioned and ironic look on the world and life can survive in a world that tends more and more to exclude the last, the marginalized, the forgotten.
The Lowdown, la ricerca della verità
The truthstorian Lee Raybon, a spy journalist-librarian, can do nothing but seek the truth in a Tulsa that perfectly represents the United States away from the liberal stereotype of the coasts, with a look to its own inside, rather than to the world, where the rules of friendship and favor prevail over those of the law. Lee does not seek the truth for an ideological spirit, as for an endemic curiosity and for a visceral need to fight against privilege. We meet him as he has just brought to light the Nazi past of a powerful local family, but despite the risks that arise from facing the neo-Nazis, Lee does not stop in front of anything. After the suicide of a member of this family, Lee realizes he’s come across something big. But obviously that doesn’t stop him either.
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Famiglie e potere
The apparent unawareness with which Lee throws himself in the lion pit is one of the ironic engines that supports the series. But The Lowdown is not a comedy, at least not in the strict sense of the term, rather falls into that category of series supported by a skillful writing that makes subdivision unnecessary in general. The Lowdown can be thriller, noir, crime, drama, comedy, depending on the moment and the situation but at the same time knows how to be simultaneously. And this is also what makes it one of the best TV series of 2025. Because it is a series that challenges conventions, which goes beyond artificial buildings and algorithms, which tries to make reflect and entertain. A TV series that lives on subtextists and does not make everything explicit, letting the public fill the spaces. A TV show to be preserved.
Il cast di Lowdown
Ethan Hawke è Lee Raybon
Keith David è Marty
Kaniehtiio Horn è Samantha
Ryan Kiera Armstrong è Francis
Jeanne Tripplehorn è Betty Jo
Macon Blair è Dan Kane
Scott Shepherd è Allen Murphy
Tim Blake Nelson è Dale Washberg
Tracy Letts è Frank Martin
Zachary Booth è Elijah
Kyle MacLachlan è Donald Washberg
John Doe è Marlon
Peter Dinklage è Wendell
Tisha Campbell è Odette
Graham Greene è Arthur
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