'The Lowdown' Creator Sterlin Harjo and Star Ethan Hawke on the Real-Life Origins of Their FX Noir

Sterlin Harjo's "The Lowdown," which just premiered on FX (and by extension Hulu), is a shaggy dog mystery that follows Lee Raybon (played to rumpled perfection by Ethan Hawke), a self-proclaimed "trutharian" – a freelance journalist and bookstore owner who looks to expose the seedy underbelly of his beloved Tulsa, Oklahoma. After an exposé of a prominent Tulsa family leads to the death of one of the family members (Tim Blake Nelson), Lee becomes convinced that it wasn't a suicide and is led down a path full of duplicitous politicians, white supremacists and wayward killers . . .