Linda Cardellini is joining HBO’s dark comedy DTF St. Louis

HBO’s dark comedy limited series DTF St. Louis expands its cast.

Linda Cardellini has joined the show, which hails from creator, showrunner and director Steven Conrad (Prime Video’s). patriot). She will star in the seven-part series alongside Jason Bateman and David Harbour.

DTF St. Louis is about “a love triangle between three adults suffering from middle-aged malaise that leads to one of them dying,” according to HBO’s logline. Cardellini will play a character named Carol, but other details — including whether she or her two co-stars form the aforementioned love triangle — are being kept secret. The series is currently in pre-production.

The series was in development for more than two years before HBO gave it a series order. It was originally titled The murder trial of my dentist and is based on a year 2017 New Yorker Story by James Lasdun. At that time, Harbor and Pedro Pascal were the main actors. Pascal later left the project, which evolved into an original story not based on the magazine article.

Conrad is executive producer DTF St. Louis with Bateman and Michael Costigan of Aggregate Films; Harbor; Todd Black, Jason Blumenthal and Steve Tisch of Escape Artists; Molly Allen; Bruce Terris; Kristina Wenson of Bravo Axolotl; and MGM Television.

Cardellini is currently starring in Hulu’s holiday film nutcracker and will next be seen on Netflix Not a good deedwhich premieres on December 12th. She received two Emmy nominations for Netflix Dead to me; Other current work includes voice work at “Max’s”. Creature CommandsMarvels Hawkeye on Disney+ and A simple favor. She is represented by CAA, Shelter and Jackoway Tyerman.