The Lowdown
Old Indian Trick
TV Flash files “Old Indian Trick” as hour 6 of 8 in the TV Flash guide — The Lowdown (2025) on FX, season 1, episode 6, aired 2025-10-21, 68 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S01E06: listed hour 6 of 8 in the The Lowdown guide, hour 6 of 8 in season 1. It aired 2025-10-21 (68 min). The listed hour before it is “This Land?” (S01E05). Next is “Tulsa Turnaround” (S01E07).
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Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Lee searches for a street hustler.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Old Indian Trick sit in the The Lowdown guide?
S01E06 is listed hour 6 of 8 — hour 6 of 8 in season 1, season 1 episode 6.
When did The Lowdown S01E06 air?
Old Indian Trick aired 2025-10-21 and is listed at 68 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…