James Poniewozik

We saw it in the movies, and then it's jumped to TV, and this was a rare case of an IP-based product that was just a great work in its own, with its own ideas.

One thing I loved about it is that, you know, obviously, it's Star Wars.

There's a lot of adventure.

There's a lot of daring do.

You know, beyond...

the politics.

And obviously, you know, it's just, you know, it's concerned with how rebellion works, you know, just politically on a nuts and bolts level and fighting against autocracy, you know, feels very current.

But it also just has this beautiful tragedy to it, which is, you know, something it sort of borrows from Rogue One to an extent.

Like, these are the people, you know,

who do not end up getting a medal draped around them at some point later on once the rebellion has succeeded.

It's about sacrifice and tragedy and, you know, the people who will sort of toil in anonymity and never see the fruits of their labor achieved.

And there's something kind of...

beautiful about that, you know, that didn't necessarily get that in like the Mandalorian, you know, no, no, no offense to baby Yoda.

Yeah.

So The Lowdown is, how would I describe it, a political, journalistic, historical noir about Ethan Hawke's character Lee Raybon, who is a self-styled, he calls himself a truth-storian...

It involves an investigation that he makes into a powerful political family whose scion, played by Kyle MacLachlan, is running for governor of Oklahoma.

It is a thriller and a conspiracy thriller in all the ways that pay off on a dramatic level.

What's really appealing about it is that it just has this great...

it's like, it's a caper, you know, it's this kind of picaresque story about this kind of wild eyed guy with a cause who does not always make wise decisions and, you know, often gets out over his skis, but about him and the characters around him who make up this community and,

You know, kind of trying to make sense of what's going on and what, you know, snakes are under the carpet.