Land Grabs Abound on This Week's ‘The Lowdown’

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Nobody beat up Lee this week, but the penultimate episode of The Lowdown does end with Lee staring down the barrels of a few automatic rifles, in a white power church full of ex-cons, so I guess that’s something! Something that’ll be resolved next week, but still — not a bad cliffhanger. How the episode gets there, though, is a marvel of plotting that illuminates the show’s themes, Lee’s character, and features a heartbreaking death.

I sometimes struggle with these recaps, because every episode is so much more than just the slow unpacking of The Lowdown ’s central mystery. The reveals sometimes pale in comparison to the character work, but episode 7, “Tulsa Turnaround,” fires on all fronts. It’s bo

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