In the new comedic mystery series The Lowdown , Ethan Hawke plays writer Lee Raybon, who runs a Tulsa used bookstore by day, but cares more about his sideline as a “truthstorian” — a pretentiously on-brand way of telling people that he’s a reporter. Lee is a dogged investigator who has, with virtually no resources outside of a beat-up old panel van with a tape deck, uncovered lots of secrets the rich and powerful of Oklahoma would prefer to keep hidden. But the most impressive thing about him may be his gift for talking his way both into and out of trouble.

Near the start of the series, Lee’s approached by Marty (Keith David), a private investigator who knows a lot about Lee’s chief subject, gubernatorial candidate Donald Washberg (Kyle MacLachlan). Marty is an erudite man of letters

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