This piece discusses, in detail, the finale of The Lowdown .

At the center of Sterlin Harjo ’s excellent neo-noir The Lowdown , whose finale aired Tuesday on FX, were two big questions. One—how did Dale Washberg die?—was always going to have a straightforward answer. The other was more complicated. Sure, it sounded like a simple either/or: Is Lee Raybon a righteous crusader for truth and justice or a dangerously delusional white savior? (See also: no small number of this year’s most memorable movie protagonists .) But because Harjo, the creator of Reservation Dogs , understands how reductive the labels of hero and villain can be, Ethan Hawke ’s wild-eyed “Tulsa truthstorian” turned out to be an equal mix of both archetypes. An even bigger surprise, for Lee and, I thi

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