“No one’s normal. It just looks that way from across the street.”
You’ll hear that phrase a few times throughout DTF St. Louis, a darkly comedic miniseries from HBO and creator Steven Conrad (Patriot). The show examines the intertwined lives of three friends, diving beneath their seemingly normal exteriors to prod at the desires and fantasies they hope will drive away their middle-age malaise. Along the way, there’s an affair, a murder, and a wildly named hookup app called DTF St. Louis.
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With these elements, DTF St. Louis looks anything but normal from across the street. But in a disappointing reversal of the show’s oft-repeated mantra, the closer you get, the more frustratingly conventional it becomes.
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