There's only one plot: nothing is as it seems.

The Lowdown — 3/5

As much as I wanted this to be a pseudo-sequel to 'Reservation Dogs', it's really more an Ethan Hawke piece than Sterlin Harjo's. The edges of this world retain a faint outline of the exceptional casting and chemistry of that earlier show, but as the show reaches its conclusion, it's clear that those edges never really mattered; hamstrung by being a show rather than a movie, needing to fill out whole episodes with new characters and side-steps. At its core, it's a mystery, and only a mildly compelling one. In the conclusion, Hawke's character lays it all out in a long monologue, which is helpful, because the show didn't really help piece it together. It's a bunch of snacks calling itself a meal. But anyway, lately I am interested in figuring out the core of actors and directors—definitions—and this show helps me piece together Ethan Hawke: he's a dirtbag boyfriend! He cares more about being right than being good. "I'm just being honest" as a 5'10" male, unafraid to hurt your feelings because he's being pure to himself, self-righteous in pursuit of a greater ideal which will lose him friends and leave him lonely but at least he's able to sleep at night (alone in his bed). Too handsome to be incel, but an early precursor to the podcast males who have opinions. Draw a straight line from him here to him in 'Reality Bites.' Though the last two or three episodes of this series really did not work for me, the last 10 minutes provoked an emotional response as he, a "truthstorian," has to swallow the truth (the right, honest thing) in trade for doing something good, and you can see how much it sticks in his throat. It is a version of growth, but growth which at first hurts, bones pushing upwards, skin stretching to hold it; it feels tumorous. Is it growth if it destroys what made you interesting? Is it worth being right if you only end up hurting people? So feels like a good ending for the particular character that he embodies.