The Bank of Lee is open. He’s spending the late Bertie’s money like, well, it’s another man’s money. Lee gives a mini-mart cashier watching makeup tutorials a grand to hide the bruises on his busted-open face before he has to go face his ex-wife. He gives his ex-wife the child-support money he owes her — plus interest — without bothering to come up with a plausible cover story for where it came from. Lee gives Deidra’s cousin’s cousin a hundred bucks just for being on the sidewalk at the right time. The world is made up of “spend it” people and “save it” people, but the “spend it” people make for much better TV.

There are no rules — at least not yet — that govern the shape of an episode of The Lowdown . We just follow Lee. And Lee is like one of those chattering teeth toys, the kind tha

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