{"id":2305945,"date":"2026-03-01T03:21:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T03:21:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2305945"},"modified":"2026-03-01T03:21:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T03:21:17","slug":"hbos-dtf-st-louis-was-originally-based-on-a-true-story-heres-why-the-showrunner-scrapped-that-plan-exclusive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/hbos-dtf-st-louis-was-originally-based-on-a-true-story-heres-why-the-showrunner-scrapped-that-plan-exclusive\/","title":{"rendered":"HBO’s Dtf St. Louis Was Originally Based On A True Story \u2014 Here’s Why The Showrunner Scrapped That Plan [Exclusive]"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Every now and then, a show comes around that appears to be one thing, turns out to be something else altogether, and completely shocks you in the best way possible. FX<\/a>‘s “Atlanta<\/a>” might be the gold standard for this in the last decade or so, turning a fairly straightforward premise about a rapper trying to hit the big time into one of the most unforgettable experiences in recent memory. Lee Sung Jin<\/a>‘s Netflix<\/a> series “Beef<\/a>” was perhaps the last time anyone came out of nowhere to deliver something similar, where something as mundane as a road rage incident spills out into a much deeper and darker study of…<\/div>\n

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Every now and then, a show comes around that appears to be one thing, turns out to be something else altogether, and completely shocks you in the best way possible. FX‘s “Atlanta” might be the gold standard for this in the last decade or so, turning a fairly straightforward premise about a rapper trying to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2305946,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2305945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/HBOs-Dtf-St-Louis-Was-Originally-Based-On-A-True.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2305945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2305945"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2305945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2305947,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2305945\/revisions\/2305947"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2305946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2305945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2305945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2305945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}