DTF St Louis — an addictive tale of middle age, swinging and murder

Never trust a man who rides a recumbent bicycle. That is the first lesson of DTF St Louis, a seven-part dark comedy starring Jason Bateman, David Harbour and Linda Cardellini. Bateman plays Clark Forrest, a local weatherman and microcelebrity who pedals his recumbent round his patch of St Louis and becomes fast friends with Floyd (Harbour), a sign language interpreter who saves him from being decapitated by a flying stop sign during a violent storm.

Floyd is a goodhearted soul with a mutinous stepson, a hot wife and Peyronie’s disease, a connective tissue condition that can cause an abnormal curvature of the penis. Seeing his wife Carol (Cardellini) in padded baseball-umpiring gear has robbed him of sexual desire, while Clark, who has never seen the gear, is already flirting with swinging and introduces Floyd to an app called DTF St Louis — after a modicum of explanation (“Down to fuck”) and hesitation, Floyd signs up.

dtf app, jason bateman, david harbour, linda cardellini, st louis, recumbent bicycle, peyronie's disease, sign language, swinging, weatherman