How to Watch The Lowdown Online in 4K

If you want to watch The Lowdown, the 2025 FX neo-Western crime drama starring Ethan Hawke and created by Sterlin Harjo, this is the complete guide. It covers what the show is, who made it, who is in it, where to stream it, and how to watch it in 4K with InfinityTV.

What is The Lowdown?

The Lowdown is an American crime comedy drama television series created by Sterlin Harjo for FX. The series premiered on FX on September 23, 2025 and was made available for streaming on Hulu the day after each episode's broadcast. Internationally, the series streams on Disney+.

The show stars Ethan Hawke as a determined bookstore owner in Tulsa, Oklahoma, who works as a part-time investigative journalist on the side — and whose investigations into local corruption pull him into increasingly dangerous territory. It has been described as a neo-Western crime drama, a dark comedy, and an investigative journalism story set against the specific political and social landscape of contemporary Tulsa.

In January 2026, FX renewed The Lowdown for a second season, confirming the network's commitment to the project after its strong reception in 2025.

Who created The Lowdown?

Sterlin Harjo created The Lowdown. Harjo is a Seminole and Muscogee (Creek) Nation filmmaker from Oklahoma — he is one of the most prominent Native American directors working in American television today.

He is best known as the co-creator (with Taika Waititi) of Reservation Dogs (FX, 2021–2023), the critically acclaimed Indigenous comedy-drama set on a Native American reservation in Oklahoma. Reservation Dogs won the Peabody Award and was widely praised as one of the finest American comedies of its era.

The Lowdown is Harjo's follow-up to Reservation Dogs and his first project centred on a non-Indigenous lead protagonist, though his perspective as an Oklahoma-based Indigenous creator shapes how the series approaches questions of community, corruption, and regional identity.

Who stars in The Lowdown?

The cast of The Lowdown is strong:

• Ethan Hawke as the lead — the bookstore owner and investigative journalist at the centre of the story. Hawke is one of the most respected American actors of his generation, known for Before Sunrise / Before Sunset / Before Midnight, Training Day, Boyhood, First Reformed, and most recently The Black Phone. He also starred in and directed the Apple TV+ limited series The Good Lord Bird (2020).
• Keith David — the character actor known for The Thing (1982), They Live (1988), Barbershop, and Community
• Jeanne Tripplehorn — known for Big Love and Grey's Anatomy
• Kyle MacLachlan — known for Twin Peaks, Blue Velvet, and Desperate Housewives
• Tim Blake Nelson — known for O Brother, Where Art Thou? and Watchmen
• Scott Shepherd
• Tracy Letts — the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and actor known for Lady Bird and Little Women
• Macon Blair — filmmaker and actor known for Blue Ruin and Hold the Dark
• Kaniehtiio Horn — known for Reservation Dogs
• Killer Mike — the rapper and activist
• Cody Lightning
• Ryan Kiera Armstrong

What is The Lowdown about?

The central character is a bookstore owner in Tulsa who investigates stories as an investigative journalist — a side practice that gives him access to people and situations that would otherwise remain invisible. When his reporting begins to uncover sinister connections in local Tulsa corruption, he finds that the story is larger, more dangerous, and more personally implicating than he expected.

The show operates on several registers simultaneously: it is a crime drama with a procedural investigation at its centre, a dark comedy in the tradition of crime comedies that treat violence and corruption with wry distance, and a neo-Western in its sense of place — Tulsa as a specific American landscape with its own history, politics, and power structures.

The journalism element gives The Lowdown a distinctive entry point into its criminal world: where most crime dramas follow police or criminals, this one follows a civilian trying to understand what is happening in his city before it reaches him personally.

Why does Sterlin Harjo's perspective matter for The Lowdown?

After Reservation Dogs established Harjo as a filmmaker with a specific, grounded sense of Oklahoma and its communities, The Lowdown represents an expansion of that creative territory. His understanding of Tulsa — its Indigenous history, its oil economy, its racial and political stratifications — gives the show a specificity of place that distinguishes it from generic neo-Western or crime drama settings.

Harjo has said that Tulsa is a city with an enormous amount of history compressed into a relatively small space, and that the show uses that history as a backdrop for stories about what power looks like in contemporary American life.

How to watch The Lowdown in 4K — step by step

1. Choose your platform. The Lowdown streams on Hulu in the United States (available the day after each FX broadcast) and on Disney+ internationally. It is not on Netflix.
2. Check your subscription. Hulu offers 4K content on supported plans and devices. Disney+ offers 4K with HDR on its standard subscription. Verify which plan you have.
3. Test your internet speed. 4K streaming requires a stable minimum of 25 Mbps. Run a speed check before you start.
4. Select a 4K-capable device. Apple TV 4K, Amazon Fire TV Stick 4K, Roku 4K, Chromecast with Google TV, and 4K Smart TVs with the Hulu or Disney+ app all support 4K streaming.
5. Enable HDR if available. Turn on HDR10 or Dolby Vision in your television's picture settings for the best image quality for Tulsa's visual landscape.
6. Stream through InfinityTV. InfinityTV gives you access to content from multiple streaming sources alongside InfinityTV's own library of 150,000+ Movies & Series and 22,000+ live TV channels from around the world — all in one app.
7. Watch episodes in broadcast order. The Lowdown is a serialised crime drama. Events and character relationships develop across the season. Start from episode one.

What to watch after The Lowdown

If The Lowdown is your kind of television, these series share its interest in crime, place-specific storytelling, and dark comedy:

• Reservation Dogs (FX/Hulu) — Sterlin Harjo's previous series, co-created with Taika Waititi. Three seasons of the most original American comedy of the early 2020s.
• Justified (FX/Hulu) — the Kentucky neo-Western crime drama starring Timothy Olyphant. Six seasons. A close tonal predecessor to The Lowdown.
• Dope Thief (Apple TV+) — the 2025 Philadelphia crime drama starring Brian Tyree Henry and Wagner Moura.
• Task (HBO) — the 2025 HBO crime drama starring Mark Ruffalo, created by Brad Ingelsby.

For a full guide to what is worth streaming right now, see our list of top series to watch in 2025 and the New Yorker's best TV shows of the year.

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How does The Lowdown fit the tradition of FX crime drama?

FX has been one of the most consistent producers of quality crime drama in American television for more than two decades. The Shield, Justified, Fargo, Better Things, The Americans, Mayans M.C., and Atlanta all emerged from the network's willingness to back shows with a distinctive creative voice and the patience to let them develop an audience over time. The Lowdown fits this tradition: it has a specific vision, a strong creator at its centre, and the kind of regional American setting that FX crime drama has historically done well.

Sterlin Harjo's track record with Reservation Dogs gave FX a clear reason to back his next project, and the casting of Ethan Hawke — who has demonstrated serious range in First Reformed, Boyhood, and The Good Lord Bird — provides the show with a central performance that can carry the tonal range the neo-Western crime comedy demands.

What makes Tulsa a compelling setting for crime drama?

Tulsa is a city with a specific and layered history that distinguishes it from generic American crime drama settings. It has an oil economy, a complex history of racial violence (the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre is one of the most significant events of 20th-century American history), a substantial Indigenous population and cultural presence, and the particular character of a mid-sized American city that is simultaneously prosperous in some quarters and deeply neglected in others.

Sterlin Harjo is from Oklahoma and knows this landscape from the inside. The Lowdown uses Tulsa's specific character — not as a backdrop but as a subject: the corruption the protagonist investigates is rooted in the specific political and economic structures of this particular American city. This is the quality that Fargo brought to the Upper Midwest and True Detective brought to rural Louisiana, and it is the quality that makes crime drama with a strong sense of place more interesting than crime drama set in a generic American urban environment.

Frequently asked questions

Where can I watch The Lowdown? The Lowdown airs on FX in the United States and streams on Hulu the following day. Internationally, it is available on Disney+. You can also access it through InfinityTV, which brings content from multiple platforms alongside 22,000+ live channels and 150,000+ Movies & Series in one app.

Who created The Lowdown? The Lowdown was created by Sterlin Harjo, the Seminole and Muscogee (Creek) Nation filmmaker from Oklahoma, best known for co-creating Reservation Dogs with Taika Waititi.

Who stars in The Lowdown? Ethan Hawke leads the cast as a Tulsa bookstore owner who works as an investigative journalist. The supporting cast includes Keith David, Kyle MacLachlan, Tracy Letts, Jeanne Tripplehorn, and Tim Blake Nelson.

What is The Lowdown about? A bookstore owner in Tulsa, Oklahoma works as an investigative journalist on the side. His reporting into local corruption uncovers sinister connections that put him and his family in danger.

Is there a Season 2 of The Lowdown? Yes. FX renewed The Lowdown for a second season in January 2026, following the first season's strong critical and audience reception.

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