has anybody else watched any of DTF St. Louis yet? its an HBO series that just started two sundays ago.

i watched the first two eps last night. i am ashamed at how fast it hooked me lol, with its suburban awkward longing for connection. bateman, as ever, is a national treasure.

ep2?

whatever the fuck those learn to be a business sociopath self-help tapes Linda Cardellini’s character was listening to has been stuck in my head all morning. the bit about asking people to speak up in a conversation throwing them off and that “every conversation is a negotiation” or whatever. evil shit.

when they showed her jogging as we hear what the tapes are saying i completely 180’d on my initial read of her.

prior i thought was just a checked out and romantically bored corporate suburban wife with a dorky but earnest husband. that little tape excerpt made me instantly terrified of her as a true villain. i was like “wtf are these instructions?” and then i was like “what kind of demon seeks this shit out :::?”

what a show. also, i bet it wins awards. bateman joked in an interview that his acting awards come from him learning how to stammer convincingly. this is gonna be some BAFTA tier shit before its over lol.

i really like that its unfolding in a surprising way and keeping me from being certain of my latest predictions.

  • Crowtee_Robot [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    8 months ago

    Haven’t watched it, but as a born and raised St. Louisan I’m mostly just annoyed at how the production team seems to have only used about 90 seconds of research about the actual city in which they decided to place the show (St. Louis Metro County? GTFO it’s just St. Louis County. It’s on the map ffs).

    STL is an old, weird, and extremely fucked up city that could get good mileage out of a show that bothered to actually do some research or had a local at the helm. Plenty of shows have captured the vibe of where they’re set, but this show could have been set anywhere that isn’t New York or LA to keep the “middle-america- is-into-some-freaky-shit” tone.

    Nothing new to TV production really, just a bee in my bonnet about placing a city name on the title but making the city itself largely irrelevant to the actual show.