{"id":41815,"date":"2026-08-12T23:06:23","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T18:06:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=41815"},"modified":"2026-08-12T23:06:23","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T18:06:23","slug":"the-lowdown-season-2-has-a-premiere-date","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=41815","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;The Lowdown&#8217; Season 2 Has a Premiere Date"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script>\r\n  atOptions = {\r\n    'key' : '644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6',\r\n    'format' : 'iframe',\r\n    'height' : 90,\r\n    'width' : 728,\r\n    'params' : {}\r\n  };\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script src=\"https:\/\/www.highperformanceformat.com\/644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/fx\/\" id=\"auto-tag_fx_1\" data-tag=\"fx\">FX<\/a> has set an October premiere date for season two of <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/the-lowdown\/\" id=\"auto-tag_the-lowdown_1\" data-tag=\"the-lowdown\">The Lowdown<\/a><\/em> and offered up some details about the new story \u201ctruthstorian\u201d Lee Raybon (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/ethan-hawke\/\" id=\"auto-tag_ethan-hawke_1\" data-tag=\"ethan-hawke\">Ethan Hawke<\/a>) will be chasing. Not surpisingly, it\u2019s complicated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe series from <em>Reservation Dogs<\/em> showrunner Sterlin Harjo will premiere on Oct. 14 on FX and Hulu. The season will find Lee teaming with a public defender, played by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/betty-gilpin\/\" id=\"auto-tag_betty-gilpin_1\" data-tag=\"betty-gilpin\">Betty Gilpin<\/a>, on a case while also dealing with complications in his own life, some of them self-inflicted. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tHere\u2019s the full description of the season from FX, which had previously kept details under wraps:<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t\u201cLee\u2019s recent story on the life and untimely death of Dale Washberg (as seen in season one) earns him a local citizen journalist award. Unable to process things going well for a change, Lee self-medicates and, unsurprisingly, makes a less than stellar showing at the ceremony. But his wildly unfiltered speech grabs the attention of beautiful and brash public defender Ginger (Gilpin), herself a crusader for truth.<\/p>\n<div class=\"post-content-image \/\/  \">\n<figure class=\"o-figure   size-large alignnone lrv-u-max-width-100p\" style=\"width:1296px\">\n<div class=\"c-lazy-image  \">\n<div class=\"lrv-a-crop-16x9\" style=\"padding-bottom:calc((730\/1296)*100%);\">\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"c-lazy-image__img lrv-u-background-color-grey-lightest lrv-u-width-100p lrv-u-display-block lrv-u-height-auto\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/wp-content\/themes\/vip\/pmc-hollywoodreporter-2021\/assets\/public\/lazyload-fallback.gif\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/FXs-The-Lowdown-L-R-Betty-Gilpin-and-Ethan-Hawke-photo-credit-FX.jpg?w=1296\" alt=\"\" data-lazy-srcset=\"\" data-lazy-sizes=\"\" height=\"730\" width=\"1296\" decoding=\"async\"\/><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div><figcaption class=\"c-figcaption  lrv-u-padding-tb-025\">\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"a-font-secondary-s lrv-u-margin-r-025\">Betty Gilpin and Ethan Hawke in \u2018The Lowdown\u2019 season two.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<cite class=\"a-font-accent-uppercase-xs lrv-u-color-grey-dark\">FX<\/cite><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t\u201cThough uncommonly immune to his charms, Ginger does accept Lee\u2019s help on a case. One of her clients has gone MIA from the state penitentiary \u2014 but how can a man go missing in prison? The situation turns out to have all of Lee\u2019s favorite ingredients: power, corruption and malfeasance among the wealthy elite. It\u2019s a perfect next story for <em>The Heartland Press<\/em>, where Marty (Keith David) is now managing editor, much to Lee\u2019s chagrin.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t\u201cBumbling his way through the investigation with Ginger, Lee reluctantly enlists the assistance of Johnny (Rafael Casal), a jujitsu-trained dentist with a heart of gold, who is also new husband to Lee\u2019s ex Samantha (Kaniehtiio Horn), and co-parent to Lee\u2019s teenage daughter Francis (Ryan Kiera Armstrong), who longs for more time with her ever-busy father. Lee loves Francis more than anything in the world, but the urgency of this new case pulls him away from her more often than either of them would like. Things on the homefront get even more complicated when Lee\u2019s estranged grifter father, Lee Raybon Senior (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/tv\/tv-news\/tommy-lee-jones-the-lowdown-season-2-fx-1236527634\/\">Tommy Lee Jones<\/a>), unexpectedly arrives in town \u2014 especially awkward since Lee has always told Francis that her grandfather was dead.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tHarjo <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/tv\/tv-features\/the-lowdown-creator-sterlin-harjo-season-1-finale-1236418480\/\">told <em>The Hollywood Reporter<\/em><\/a> after the first season finale that he\u2019s thought about \u201cmany seasons\u201d of <em>The Lowdown<\/em>. \u201cI have ideas,\u201d he said. \u201cI was telling somebody,\u00a0<em>The Rockford Files<\/em>\u00a0did it every episode. We could do every season.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tFX Productions is the studio for <em>The Lowdown<\/em>. Harjo executive produces with Garrett Basch, Ethan Hawke, Ryan Hawke, Duffy Boudreau and Scott Teems.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<script async=\"async\" data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/pl30214220.effectivecpmnetwork.com\/9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<div id=\"container-9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\"><\/div>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FX has set an October premiere date for season two of The Lowdown and offered up some details about the new story \u201ctruthstorian\u201d Lee Raybon (Ethan Hawke) will be chasing. Not surpisingly, it\u2019s complicated. The series from Reservation Dogs showrunner Sterlin Harjo will premiere on Oct. 14 on FX and Hulu. 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