Dead To Me alum Linda Cardellini has signed on for a lead role in DTF St. Louis, a seven-episode limited series starring and executive produced by Jason Bateman and David Harbour from writer, director, showrunner and executive producer Steve Conrad (The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, Patriot).
The darkly comedic series, whose title refers to the social media acronym for “down to f*ck,” is about a love triangle among three adults experiencing middle-age malaise that leads to one of them ending up dead.
Cardellini will play Carol.
DTF St. Louis has evolved from the Steve Conrad limited series project My Dentist’s Murder Trial, which HBO put in development more than two years ago with Harbour and Pedro Pascal attached to star and EP. It was a true-crime drama about Kingston, NY, dentist Dr. Gilberto Nunez (Pascal), who went to trial for allegedly killing his friend Tom Kolman (Harbour).
There is no dentist in DTF St. Louis, which comes from the same creative and producing team: writer, director and showrunner Conrad, who executive produces alongside Harbour; Todd Black, Jason Blumenthal and Steve Tisch for Escape Artists; Bateman, Molly Allen, Bruce Terris and Michael Costigan for Aggregate Films; Kristina Wenson for Bravo Axolotl; James Lasdun, whose article inspired the previous incarnation of the project; and MGM Television.
Three-time Emmy nominee Cardellini can currently be seen in Hulu’s film Nutcrackers, opposite Ben Stiller, which opened the 2024 Toronto Film Festival. She recently wrapped Way of the Warrior Kid, opposite Chris Pratt in Skydance’s film for Apple. She’ll next be seen in Netflix series No Good Deed, alongside Ray Romano, Lisa Kudrow, Denis Leary, and Luke Wilson, a role which reunites her with Liz Feldman, creator of Dead to Me, on which she starred for three seasons and earned Emmy and SAG nominations. She’s repped by CAA and Jackoway, Tyerman, Wertheimer.
