The Lowdown Season 2 on Disney+ Makes Tommy Lee Jones the Father Lee Called Dead

The Lowdown Flies High

There are many things going right in season two of ‘The Lowdown,’ but the addition of Betty Gilpin is what shifts this shaggy noir out of “promising but uneven” territory and into “this show knows exactly what it’s doing.”

Betty Gilpin, Tommy Lee Jones rate their 'Lowdown' experiences as a '10'

Gilpin and Jones are new faces in the shot-in-Tulsa series returning this week for a second season.

Tommy Lee Jones steals the show in new season of this neo-noir series

The new season, premiering Wednesday on FX and Hulu, is profoundly hilarious and emotionally shattering, writes our reviewer.

The Lowdown Season 2 on Disney+ Makes Tommy Lee Jones the Father Lee Called Dead

Ethan Hawke returns as Tulsa citizen journalist Lee Raybon, newly honored for his reporting and hired by a public defender to find a prisoner who vanished from a state prison. Then the father he told his daughter was dead comes back to town, played by Tommy Lee Jones.