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Sterlin Harjo, co-creator of the award-winning comedy drama Reservation Dogs, masterminds an offbeat crime caper set in Tulsa. Ethan Hawke plays walking disaster Lee Raybon, a self-anointed 'trustorian' who believes it is his role to root through the city's dirty secrets and roots out the reprobates responsible for corruption, violence and abuse of political power. This righteous quest is a distraction from the disarray of his personal life. He is in arrears with the pay at the bookstore he owns and equally late with child support payments to his former partner Samantha (Kaniehtiio Horn). Across eight episodes, Lee turns private detective to expose wrongdoing in Oklahoma while cleaning up some of the mess he always leaves in his wake

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Jack Seale

Ethan Hawke is tremendous as the incorrigible “truthstorian” — which is to say, struggling freelance journalist, failed author and sometime private investigator — Lee Raybon, in a neo-noir caper created by Sterlin Harjo (Reservation Dogs). In Tulsa, Oklahoma, Lee considers himself to be a thorn in the side of the city’s rich elite, and of the neo-Nazi gangs who keep beating him up — and when he gets the idea that the apparent suicide of a prominent resident may have in fact been foul play, he has a new bone to chew on.

Hawke’s ragged charm, the show’s meandering style and its rogue’s gallery of eccentric supporting characters, make it a comic Coens-ish thriller and the perfect thing to flop hazily in front of post-Christmas.

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7.3/10

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