

DramaComedyMysteryHBO

Pilot
S1, E1
Cornhole
89%
Tomatometer
73%
Popcornmeter
7.0
TMDB
A love triangle among three adults experiencing middle-age malaise leads to one of them ending up dead.

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5 reviews · 4 fans
0 fresh · 1 rotten
Admittedly, I only watched the first three episodes, and while the general story was intriguing, I just couldn't get past the odd, repetitive dumbed down dialogue of each character. Every single line delivered is parroted back by another character, then said back again deliberately and so on and so forth until you feel like you might be going crazy. It's like someone watched the Coen Brothers' Fargo and then just hyper focused on the dialogue of the cop characters and made those exchanges the format for every single thing said between the characters for this series. Frustrating to watch and don't really feel like finishing this series.
**The midlife void** I think seven 50-minute episodes feel long for a story like this, quite simple and devoid of narrative substance, in which essential plot points are revealed at the irritating pace of a Malaysian drop. The leitmotif is a lethal love triangle fueled by a midlife crisis, where Clark Forrest (Jason Bateman), a well-known local television weatherman, and Floyd Smernitch (David Harbour), his new sign language interpreter for deaf viewers, develop a very close and deep friendship, confessing their feelings of being stuck in their respective marriages. This leads them to sign up for the app “DTF St. Louis” (an acronym for “DareToFuck”), a dating app specifically designed for married people to have discreet affairs. The story is structured through a non-linear narrative that begins with a mystery: one of those involved dies, and detectives Donoghue Homer (Richard Jenkins) and Jodie Plumb (Joy Sunday) must reconstruct the events. Through chronological jumps and the constant reinterpretation of past (sometimes even redundant) scenes, the series unravels subplots such as the affair between Clark and Carol (Linda Cardellini), Floyd's wife, a very timely insurance policy, and lies intertwined with an elaborate online deception involving fake profiles initially conceived to alleviate Floyd's deep depression, but which ultimately triggers fatal consequences. The script'…
Title
DTF St. Louis
Released
2026
Rated
TV-MA
Region of Origin
United States of America
Original Audio
English
Show Type
Miniseries
Network
HBO