DTF St Louis: this David Harbour whodunnit about dating apps and infidelity is close to the bone

DTF St Louis: this David Harbour whodunnit about dating apps and infidelity is close to the bone Steve Conrad’s dark comedy is full of twists and sad laughs. As for the fate of Harbour’s character, does Lily Allen have an alibi? L ast October, Lily Allen released a jaw-dropping album about the sexual politics of her marriage to actor David Harbour . It was a musical assassination – reportedly written in the wake of her personal sleuthing into his long-term infidelities via the dating app Raya. Therefore the timing of DTF St Louis (Monday 2 March, 9pm, Sky Atlantic), in which Harbour plays a man in a stagnant marriage who downloads a hook-up app to enjoy some extramarital boom boom, is juicy. For everyone except his publicist. From the trailer, this was a hard-to-read show. Was it a dark comedy, a bedroom farce, a police procedural? The answer turns out to be yes, to all of those things. I also wondered whether it might be a televisual return to the erotic thrillers of the 90s. The answer to that one is no, although it’s a show with sex on the brain. Everyone knows dating apps are hell, so it’s perverse that we’re all on them now, even married people. They can be a frictionless way to seek out an affair, which is what Harbour’s character, a sign language interpreter called Floyd, does. He’s vigorously assisted by his best friend Clark, played by Jason Bateman , a similarly frustrated, middle-aged weatherman. There’s obviously been a cold front in the Missouri area – but things are heating up! Actually, they’re not. Within 25 minutes, Harbour is dead, slumped against the wall of the “Kevin Kline Community Pool” with a defaced, Indiana Jones-themed Playgirl centrefold at his side, and a lethal can of Bloody Mary. The seven episodes of this HBO miniseries piece together the puzzlebox in classic whodunnit style. Clark is first implicated, but question marks remain over Floyd’s minx of a wife, Carol. I kept shouting at the screen that “it has to be Lily Allen!” but appare...