{"id":256527,"date":"2026-01-28T21:28:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T21:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/256527\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T21:28:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T21:28:08","slug":"darkly-comedic-crime-thriller-starring-david-harbour-jason-bateman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/256527\/","title":{"rendered":"Darkly Comedic Crime Thriller Starring David Harbour & Jason Bateman"},"content":{"rendered":"

David Harbour<\/a> is saying goodbye to Hawkins, Indiana, and hello to St. Louis, Missouri. HBO<\/a> has unveiled the first trailer for the Stranger Things<\/a> star’s new limited series, DTF St. Louis, a darkly comedic love triangle crime thriller that pairs him with Jason Bateman<\/a> in a fitting new television role for the Ozark<\/a> lead. Originally beginning development back in 2022, the series follows three adults, also including Emmy nominee Linda Cardellini<\/a>, mired in middle-aged malaise and looking to spice up their love life. However, everything goes horribly wrong when one of the trio winds up dead, kicking off a spicy, confounding mystery<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The trailer opens on a sinister note as two investigators enter a crime scene to find Harbour’s Floyd slumped over dead, apparently from natural causes. However, special crimes officer Jodie Plumb (Joy Sunday) isn’t so certain this death was a heart attack as it seemed, given the strange collection of items found next to him. A look back at Floyd’s life shows how the former meteorologist ended up down this path. It all begins with his friend and colleague, Clark (Bateman), recommending the titular app to help spice things up for him in the bedroom. The initials DTF mean exactly what you think, as Floyd dives headfirst into the world of internet hook-ups, opening up entirely new possibilities he never imagined. His death, however, lands Clark in hot water for recommending him the app in the first place. Even more suspicious is that he’s sharing his fantasies with Floyd’s wife, Carol (Cardellini), who’s a little too close to Clark for the police’s liking.<\/p>\n

Between the mysterious death, plenty of sex, and some very awkward humor<\/a> courtesy of Harbour’s suburban dad, DTF St. Louis is about to get pretty freaky for HBO. It also has a strong supporting cast joining the Thunderbolts* alum<\/a>, Bateman, Cardellini, and Sunday, including Richard Jenkins, Arlan Ruf, Peter Sarsgaard, and Chris Perfetti. Steven Conrad, who previously created the Michael Dorman series Patriot and co-wrote Ben Stiller’s The Secret Life of Walter Mitty<\/a>, does it all as writer, director, showrunner, and executive producer on the series, with both Bateman and Harbour among his fellow EPs.<\/p>\n

Bateman and Harbour Are Coming Off of Two of Their Biggest Hits<\/p>\n

For the Emmy-winning Bateman, DTF St. Louis will be a welcome return to the small screen, fresh off the biggest box office hit of his career \u2014 Zootopia 2<\/a>. The Disney sequel again earned rave reviews as it followed his now-police officer fox, Nick Wilde, and his partner Judy Hopps (Ginnifer Goodwin) on a new case, hauling in a staggering $1.74 billion at the box office to become the highest-grossing animated film in U.S. history<\/a>. Harbour is coming off a massive year himself, reprising his role as the Red Guardian in Marvel’s Thunderbolts* and finally saying goodbye to Officer Jim Hopper<\/a> with the fifth and final season of Stranger Things<\/a>. The new HBO series is only the beginning of what will be another busy year for him, as he’s set to suit up for the MCU once more for the hotly-anticipated team-up film Avengers: Doomsday<\/a> on December 18.<\/p>\n

DTF St. Louis kicks off its seven-episode run on HBO on Sunday, March 1 at 9 p.m. ET\/PT. Check out the trailer in the player above.<\/p>\n

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Release Date<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMarch 1, 2026<\/p>\n

Network<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tHBO<\/p>\n

Showrunner<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSteve Conrad<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"David Harbour is saying goodbye to Hawkins, Indiana, and hello to St. Louis, Missouri. HBO has unveiled the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":256528,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[156,409,111,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-256527","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-movies","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-newzealand","12":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256527\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/256528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}