Hawke leads new series The Lowdown, which sees the actor reunite with director Sterlin Harjo after having worked together for an episode of Reservation Dogs.
A citizen journalist and bookstore owner, we follow Lee as he continues to dig into local matters and unearths some bubbling local corruption. But when he starts finding out a lot more than he bargained for, he must protect his family and the truth.
Is The Lowdown based on a true story?
The Lowdown has been described as a work of fiction but is loosely inspired by real-life figure, Lee Roy Chapman.
Chapman's research into the Tulsa race massacre revealed Tulsa's very own founder, Tate Brady, was affiliated with the Ku Klux Klan. Chapman published his findings in the 2011 article entitled The Nightmare of Dreamland: Tate Brady and the Battle for Greenwood for This Land Press.
Chapman worked at This Land Press with The Lowdown series creator Sterlin Harjo. The pair became friends and Chapman subsequently inspired the character of Lee Raybon in The Lowdown.
View oEmbed on the source websiteWhile the FX series is entirely fictional, speaking about his time working at TLP, Harjo told EW: “It was just an inspirational and informative time for me.
Producer Chuck Foxen also said: "Lee Roy Chapman is the one who, back in the day, before people were talking about changing the whole Brady District, was writing articles about who Tate Brady was, connecting him to the KKK, and going around and educating Tulsans about what the history was ... He was on the beat."
While there are similarities in the way that Chapman and Raybon go about getting to the bottom of the truth and their penchant for rare books, the TV series is very much leaning on the lighthearted nature of investigating local cases with Hawke's character getting himself into quite the complicated scenario when he unearths some long-held secrets.
It continues: "When the publication of Lee’s latest exposé – a deep dive into the powerful Washberg family – is immediately followed by the suspicious suicide of Dale Washberg (Tim Blake Nelson), Lee knows he’s stumbled onto something big."
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