The Lowdown
Short on Cowboys
TV Flash files “Short on Cowboys” as a desk essential hour — The Lowdown (2025) on FX, season 1, episode 4, aired 2025-10-07, 71 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S01E04: listed hour 4 of 8 in the The Lowdown guide, hour 4 of 8 in season 1. It aired 2025-10-07 (71 min). The listed hour before it is “Dinosaur Memories” (S01E03). Next is “This Land?” (S01E05).
Essential hour: “Short on Cowboys”. Short on Cowboys as the anti-western hour: the title refusing the genre's manpower, still Tulsa, still a bookseller who will not leave the deal alone.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Lee has a wild night with a new friend.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Short on Cowboys sit in the The Lowdown guide?
S01E04 is listed hour 4 of 8 — hour 4 of 8 in season 1, season 1 episode 4.
When did The Lowdown S01E04 air?
Short on Cowboys aired 2025-10-07 and is listed at 71 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…