Ethan Hawk is the joy of Dirtbag in “The Lowdown”

Ethan Hawk face, a beautiful angular cinematic presence since then Dead Poets AssociationIt is placed through Wringer on Low. In the final minutes of the pilot, we see it behind the steering wheel, stained with the blood and the left eye closed, the teeth stained in red. The image dominates you, but reducing it through tampering: it laughs obsessed, after he deceived death through any effort on its own. Following up the creator Sterlene Hargo for his greatest program Reservation dogs For FX, for the first time this week, Reef Fash is on Nuer in the middle of the century and the arduous boiled imagination, where the intrusion heroes are routinely eliminated, vibrating, and they are transferred to the edge of madness. So he goes in LowBut Harjo is filtering this type through its distinctive sensor, comic parts, hope, deadly, and regional. Hook’s character is not a smooth, covered and trench investigator, but rather dirt stoves, disgusting and karizmi. Imagine a single pluck from Richard Linclter Evader Oddbals and their dropping in RayMond Chandler: Familiar after a deviant, in the world of Noir, broke through Humor Hygardo and privacy lived.

Hawke plays the role of Lee Raybon, which is a self-described “Truthstorian” that runs a rare store in Tolsa, Oklahoma, but moonlight as a citizen-mother journalist is the opposite? Providing long investigations to a severe local magazine, Hartland Press. The series is launched when Dale Washberg (Tim Blake Nelson), a member of the strong Oklahoma family, hides a suicide note, hides it inside a book on his shelves, then shoots himself in the head. His death comes after an exhibition of Li in the history of the strong and strong Washbar He says, “Everything is connected.” “Darkness is always in full swing.” Can there be hidden? For him, the largest picture is suspicious. Del’s brother, Donald (Kyle McClelan), runs for the position of ruler, and it appears to be very intimate with Del widow, Betty Joe (Jin Tribelin). Meanwhile, it is digging me in Akron Construction, a company that buys black -owned companies in the region. It is suspected of a coordinated effort to strangle the competition, which would harm the local economy. The owner of Akron, Frank Martin (Tris Litts), a power medium with deep pockets, is not used by urging me, as is the case with the quiet Alen Murphy (Scott Shepard), who works in Martin.

This is the painting as specific. But in a real Pulp-Nir way, it wasn’t long before the pieces spread to the point where the game becomes unknown. Only five of the eight episodes of the season were provided for critics, and by the end of the batch, I still cannot tell what we are supposed to pay attention to. It doesn’t matter. Low It is not operated by its central ablution as much as the pleasures of the stunning dog to watch me stumbles through Tolsa presented with a live texture, you can smell the scent of the plains. It is a kind of width that rewards kicking and sun in its world. The Lee store sits in a modest row next to a tax lawyer for lunch and stores its precious things; A registration store hesitates his daughter. And a dinner called Sweet Emily’s, where he thinks. Odyssey takes it to real estate sales, livestock auctions, hidden islands, a mysterious, violent and surreal group for law enforcement officials. It also turns into his own history, when an old friend (Peter Denclage) appears in the middle of the season to record access, communication, and Spar: “Do not quote David Foster Wallace Lee, my brother.”

In essence, Low It is a personal, loving, thorny study. Harjo – who holds the position of presentation, wrote the pilot, and directed the first two episodes – the true affection of Lee, and feels it in the density of the dodges, contradictions and features packed in this role, all of which carry Hawke easily. Lee is a scourge and tickling, chronic shattered and excessive confidence, and possibly a talented writer or at least from literary references. He thinks about conspiracy, and it is the type that keeps one of these murders in his apartment opinion over a library. It drives a clear surface white car that another character is called “Bedou”, the back doors full of words You are doing it wrong. Through a contemporary lens, he feels that he is a man who is two or two degrees from Kanon’s Kanon, but there is a pure human engine in it. He is serious and not angry, but he is magical in his endeavor. “Do not be afraid for me,” said to his anxious daughter, Francis (Ryan Keira Armstrong). “Be afraid of the people who sleep their lives. I do exactly what I want to do. I live.” You believe that he believes in what he says, but you suspect that the argument is because I belong to the brothers of the sad fathers on TV (see too a taskLonely sharp. (Francis’s mother, with whom you are no longer for me, is played by Kaniehtiio Horn, unforgettable like the deer lady Reservation dogs And Tanis in disregard Literkini))

on the surface, Low It may seem like a curious project for success Reservation dogs. After the victory of the local story, Harjo may feel the choice of Harjo to focus his next project on a sad white man, an essential element in prestige, which is essential, he may feel some strange reflection. But Hargo is going on a great and harmful idea with me. Despite all his foolishness, brilliance and noble intentions, it is difficult not to notice how easy it is to move for me through the spaces in which no one who is not a white is white. Throughout this series, Lee is impersonating a white superiority to enter the home of another white superiority mother, and then later as a fish and wildlife officer in the United States to storm a special space for Jack some rare books. It is often saved through his GAB gift; At some point, he talks about getting out of torture and possibly death at the hands of the criminal uniform he is skipping. The offer does not frame this as a criticism as much as it is a matter of entertainment. He increases for me and undoubtedly benefits from the privileges of his whiteness, but it is also the weapon of those advantages for some of the idea of ​​good-even if it is self-employed, even if that ultimately leads to his ruin. Hook is great in this role, which takes advantage of the gossip charisma, and it is the same that can explode as annoying but attractive in films like Reality bites and before Triple, or threatening something like Black phone. Despite all the things that it calls me (“narcissistic cowboy with a tendency to think that it is a good person”) and the things he calls himself (“I am a good man, this is what we do, we call the bad guys and make them answer the phone”), and the local experimental description may be wandering in my traffic. Hell.”

Low It is also completely the exhibition of the creative vision of Marjo. Building the world has sufficiently fertile to soften than you feel about the harsh edges of me, and its guidance to weaving smoothly together its vast cultural appetite gives the offer a kind of reference weight that feels invited rather than promoting. Depends and address the great Noires (Goodbye It comes to mind) but also the fantasy of the bone of a person like Philip K. rooster. You feel echoes even if you are not aware of the reference. Jim Thompson, the crime writer in Oklahoma whose reputation flourished only after his death, is heading as a communication story in the notes that Dell leaves, and hearing the name makes you curious enough to capture one of his novels. The show shines with intelligence, and the sharp dialogue (“a faded heart that is unprecedented”, and an exhibition of unforgettable characters from the organic side that fills Hargo Tols It leads us to the sweet Emily at this watch. “He qualifies, with regard to other insomnia at dinner. You see poetry. ”In this rhythm, the essence of the show is crystallized.

More than one way, Low Deepens and stretches the sensitivities of Hargo. if Reservation dogs I found beauty to embrace society in margins, Low The spark of what is happening when someone begins the margins to back down from the established power. Both shows wander around and go towards something more than the total of their parts, and both find beauty and the remaining meaning in the details. Noir’s heart tends to be nihilistic, and her distant mood is a veil that invites you to take a look at the dark mechanism of a world governed by strong that cannot be overcome as resistance leads to ruin only. But Hargo holds that. “The way you write about Tolsa – there are bad things on this topic, but below it, it’s really good,” Francis told me. He may be fool, but he is also a lover who still believes in the truth. It may end badly for him, but for the time being, it makes you think that there is still glory in the battle to fix a broken world.