On The Lowdown , the action picks up where it left off last week, and characters drift in and out of Lee’s story, freed from the burden of an arc. The looseness (so far) works for me, because Lee Raybon’s fast days don’t end. His misadventures crash into one another. His problems accumulate. His arc is crescendoing chaos.

The looseness also mirrors something rare and powerful about Lee himself: how he authors his own fate, sets his own hectic pace, never checks a calendar. He’s a shop owner who never sells, a writer who never sits at a desk. In “Dinosaur Memories,” Lee is abducted — improbably but not unbelievably — for the second time in three episodes. This man is not a wealthy heiress or a foreign spy or the key witness in a RICO case, so how does it already seem so plausible that Le

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