It’s hard to tell whether “Dtf St. Louis” is a cold-blooded contemporary “Double Indemnity” or a humanistic examination of love and friendship that transcends conventional understanding.
Hard to tell by Chapter Four of the intriguing murder mystery, anyway, which is the number HBO showed critics of the seven-episode season. Told by two eminently unreliable narrators to two (so far) clue-deficient cops, this reconstruction of the events leading to the death of a pitiful man becomes a different story with each detail revealed — or is that with each lie told?
Whatever it may turn out to be, “Dtf” is a funny, lurid and creepingly compassionate watch. Its veteran stars Jason Bateman,…
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