Scorchin' Summer Streamin' 25 - The Lowdown - Season One

FX’s The Lowdown from Creator Sterlin Harjo and starring Executive Producer Ethan Hawke, follows the gritty exploits of citizen journalist Lee Raybon (Hawke), a self-proclaimed Tulsa truthstorian whose obsession with the truth is always getting him into trouble. 

When the publication of Lee’s latest exposé – a deep dive into the powerful Washberg family – is immediately followed by the suspicious suicide of Dale Washberg (Tim Blake Nelson), Lee knows he’s stumbled onto something big.

The Lowdown streams on Disney+ in Australia. Adding to their brilliant run of recent shows. Including the recently added All's Fair getting the most wild reviews!

is an American television series created by Sterlin Harjo for FX. It stars Ethan Hawke and it premiered on September 23, 2025.

The series is loosely inspired by historian Lee Roy Chapman. The eighth episode concluded on Disney+ last night. Warning spoilers below.

A year before his death, Dale met Lee at the bookstore, buying a novel for his collection. 

In the present, Marty and Lee escape as the church opens fire, grazing Marty's leg. They break into a feed store to treat him, and an angry Chutto throws a brick through the bookstore window. 

Lee supports Francis at her poetry reading before meeting Betty Jo at the Philbrook Museum of Art, but she refuses to take responsibility for Arthur's death. 

Lee presents Donald with the truth: conspiring with Betty Jo, Frank instructed Allen to intimidate Dale into agreeing to the land sale; Allen hired the skinheads, who accidentally shot Dale instead, and Betty Jo staged his suicide. 

Rejecting The 46, Donald publicly honors his brother's gift of the Washbergs' land to Chutto, who signs it over to the Osage Nation. 

Donald is elected governor, and Lee publishes another article in Dale's memory, while Mark and his associates are arrested, and Bonnie guns down Frank to avenge her son. At Samantha's wedding, Francis assures Lee that he is a good man. Elsewhere, Betty Jo gives a tearful barroom performance of "Luckenbach, Texas".

It was a strange little show. Nice to see Ethan Hawke not in another horror outing following the Black Phone 2.

Next week, Reasonable Doubt concludes on Disney+, with 9-1-1: Nashville also taking a break from next Saturday till the new year.

Until next time. Hopefully I get to see a film on my day off tomorrow!