{"id":2973,"date":"2026-03-17T21:29:03","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T21:29:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/?p=2973"},"modified":"2026-04-19T15:18:24","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T15:18:24","slug":"review-hbos-dtf-st-louis-marches-toward-quirky-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/2026\/03\/17\/review-hbos-dtf-st-louis-marches-toward-quirky-fun\/","title":{"rendered":"HBO’s “DTF St. Louis” Marches Toward Quirky Sex Fun and Murder"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

So I’m up to episode three in the new HBO series DTF St. Louis<\/em> and digging it. My favorite show right now. Jason Bateman is playing against type: Usually he’s the good-hearted family guy with terrific comic timing, often playing the “straight man” character\u2014the sane one around whom the wackos orbit. In this series, playing Clark Forrest, he’s a disturbed TV weather guy with kinky sexual fetishes that cloud his thinking. When he describes his sexual . . . proclivities . . . he’s hesitant, nebbishy, and captivating. But David Harbour, lately of Stranger Things<\/em> fame (and infamy, kind of), plays the murder victim, Floyd, and does a great job. He’s a portly Sign Language expert with money problems, a wife whose side gig as a Little League umpire turns him off, and a stepson who (at first) hates him. Oddly enough he’s charming and funny and likable. Bateman has the tougher role as the more-successful friend who leads Floyd astray, sex-wise. Linda Cardellini plays Carol, Floyd’s wife, who is an obvious Suspect No. 1. But I don’t buy it. That would be too simplistic. My theory: Clark’s wife (Wynn Everett as Eimy Forrest) has been suspiciously absent so far. She’s not a suspect but we know nothing about her. Hmmm. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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