Director: Sterlin Harjo, Macon Blair, Danis Goulet
Cast: Ethan Hawke, Keith David
The Lowdown is a 2025 American biographical drama series directed by Sterlin Harjo, Macon Blair, and Danis Goulet, set in Tulsa and following a bookstore owner who doubles as an investigative journalist exposing local corruption. The series blends historical grounding with taut contemporary thriller energy.
What is The Lowdown about?
By day, a quietly determined Tulsa bookstore owner runs his small shop and tends to his family. By night, he chases leads, cultivates sources, and writes dispatches that the local power structure would rather suppress. His investigations begin to trace a web of influence reaching far beyond city hall — corrupt officials, shadowy business dealings, and interests with every reason to keep the truth buried. As the stakes climb, the line between his professional mission and his personal safety begins to blur, forcing him to decide how much risk a man of conscience can absorb before everything he loves is placed in jeopardy. The series builds its tension slowly and deliberately, layering character before confrontation.
Cast & crew
Ethan Hawke leads the series as the principled bookstore journalist, bringing the understated intensity he has refined across decades of character work. Keith David, one of American cinema's most commanding presences, adds gravitas in a key supporting role. The directors — Sterlin Harjo, Macon Blair, and Danis Goulet — each bring distinct genre sensibilities, producing a series with varied tonal textures across its episodes.
Context & significance
For Persian-speaking diaspora viewers, The Lowdown carries particular resonance. Journalism conducted at personal risk, institutions that protect corruption rather than expose it, and an ordinary person who refuses to look away — these are themes that speak directly to communities whose own histories are shaped by exactly such dynamics. The series is available on K-Time with Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles, making it fully accessible to viewers at every level of English fluency. American biographical drama has long found audiences well beyond its local geography, and The Lowdown's grounded Tulsa setting gives it the specificity that elevates genre storytelling.
Where & how to watch
The Lowdown is available now on K-Time with Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles. Watch on the web, your TV, or your phone — no VPN needed, no geo-blocking, and no extra download required. Subscribe and cancel anytime.