DTF St. Louis: Male Bonding in the Midwest

May 2026

 

DTF St. Louis spends way too much time on male anatomy...

Or more specifically... male genitalia...

 

Of which we see a lot in this series...

 

And yes, I know one of the characters has peyronie’s disease...

Which plays a role in what happens to him...

 

But I did think the frequency of dick pics in this series...

Was a bit gratuitous...

 

Because I haven’t seen that much male anatomy since I rotated through urology  in med school...

 

And I am going to have to admit...

I am never going to be able to look at Jason Bateman’s nose the same way ever again...

Now, I won’t tell you why...

But, frankly, once you see it... you can’t unsee it...

 

Now DTF St. Louis is a decent murder mystery...

Set in a town you would never want to visit based on how this Midwest city is portrayed in this series...

 

Which is full of complicated characters...

 

The hot wife...

Who is part of a love triangle...

Is guarded and tough...

 

But may not always be as bad as she first seems...

 

The awkward and sometimes violent son...

 

Jason Bateman as a TV weatherman...

Who is as sad as the city he works in...

And unsettled...

 

Then there is Floyd Smernich...

And that name tells you all you need to know...

 

About the character...

 

And the screenwriter...

 

Floyd is played by David Harbor...

 

And that dude can move...

Even while wearing a 30 lb prosthetic belly...

 

Now DTF St. Louis is really a love story between two men...

Who are not gay...

 

And are not sexually attracted to each other...

 

But love each other....

 

They are both incredibly sad...

But kind in strange ways...

As well as brutally honest with each other...

 

But in a way that to me didn’t entirely ring true...

 

And if you don’t get why...

 

Check out the SNL sketch with Travis Kelce about male friendship...

 

But hanging over DTF St. Louis...

Like gray cloud cover that never lifts...

Is the portrayal of life in St. Louis...

 

You see the kind of drab midcentury ranch houses...

That are the mark of a down-market suburb in the Midwest...

Filled with people who really are just barely getting by...

 

But who do get their kink on...

 

And that is one of the themes in this series...

 

As the young female detective...

 

And I would really like to see her browsing history...

 

Schools the clueless old policeman...

About what goes on in the suburbs...

Behind closed doors...

 

And although he is initially dismissive

Of her efforts to enlighten him...

 

In the end, he comes to realize...

That he had no idea of what was going on in his town...

 

So, although this series hid the ball enough to keep me interested until the end...

 

There was something about this dark... and deeply sad story...

That made me think...

I don’t want to watch that again...

 

Nor spend any time in St. Louis......

 

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