Oklahoma is having a cultural moment. The Thunder are NBA champions. My brother and sister-in-law just uprooted to the Sooner State. And, with The Lowdown, Reservation Dogs creator Sterlin Harjo is staking a claim as the state’s TV laureate (to differentiate him from Joy Harjo, no relation and our former national poet laureate).
A shaggy dog mystery-comedy in the vein of Terriers and Lodge 49 — which is to say “very much my jam” and “very much destined for niche viewership” — Harjo’s follow-up to one of television’s great half-hours of the decade/century/ever is still finding its way, based on the five episodes sent to critics. And “its way” is an endearingly meandering way, one in which the murder mystery at its center is only meant to be loosely compelling.
Instead of asking viewers to invest in a whodunit or howdunit or whydunit, The Lowdown offers immersion in Tulsa and its environs,…
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