The Lowdown
Pilot
TV Flash files “Pilot” as a desk essential hour — The Lowdown (2025) on FX, season 1, episode 1, aired 2025-09-23, 82 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S01E01: listed hour 1 of 8 in the The Lowdown guide, first listed hour of season 1. It aired 2025-09-23 (82 min). No earlier hour is listed in this guide. Next is “The Devil's Mama” (S01E02).
Essential hour: “Pilot”. The pilot as Tulsa-noir contract: Sterlin Harjo after Reservation Dogs, Ethan Hawke as shambling truthstorian, a death with land deals underneath.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
When a strange man from a powerful family dies, citizen journalist Lee Raybon smells a cover-up.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Pilot sit in the The Lowdown guide?
S01E01 is listed hour 1 of 8 — first listed hour of season 1, season 1 episode 1.
When did The Lowdown S01E01 air?
Pilot aired 2025-09-23 and is listed at 82 minutes.
Do I need Reservation Dogs first?
No. Post-Reservation Dogs prestige from Harjo that still keeps Indigenous storytelling in the center. Tulsa noir, not a Dogs sequel.
In the series
Why this series still plays
Sterlin Harjo's Tulsa noir: Ethan Hawke as a shambling truthstorian bookseller digging into a death and the land deals underneath it. Post-Reservation Dogs prestige that keeps Indigenous storytelling in the center instead of as garnish. Watch for late-career Hawke shagginess used as a detective method, not a costume.
**They are not amicable with garnish.** Sterlin Harjo's The Lowdown, 2025 on FX, is Tulsa noir with the rope already warm: Ethan Hawke as Lee Raybon, a shambling truthstorian bookseller digging into a local death and the land deals underneath it. Keith David as Marty. Jeanne Tripplehorn as Vera. Post-Reservation Dogs prestige that keeps Indigenous storytelling in the center instead of as a canapé. Eight episodes. Late-career Hawke shagginess used as a detective method, not a costume. Sources close to the coastal…
Filed against
- Ethan Hawke as Lee Raybon
Ethan Hawke’s Lee Raybon shambled through The Lowdown as a Tulsa truthstorian with a bookseller’s dust — 2020s catalog noir, Sterlin Harjo keeping Indigenous storytelling in the center, then The Good Lord Bird stretching the wild eye into…
- Keith David as Marty
Keith David's Marty grounds Sterlin Harjo's The Lowdown in Tulsa noir that keeps Indigenous storytelling at the center — a death, land deals underneath, prestige that refuses garnish. TV Flash files him as 2020s craft gravity: the…
- Jeanne Tripplehorn as Vera
Jeanne Tripplehorn’s Barb Henrickson held Big Love’s first-wife line while a polygamist façade cracked — 2000s catalog HBO faith-and-jealousy, then The Lowdown stretching the steel into Tulsa noir. TV Flash files her as the wife who can…