Spoilers below for the final episode of "DTF St. Louis" for anyone who hasn’t yet watched it on HBO or streamed it via HBO Max subscription, so be warned!
After seven weeks of Richard Jenkins’ Det. Homer getting bamboozled by one sexual fetish after another, HBO’s genre-mashing mystery "DTF St. Louis" came to a close with quite the revealing finale. (And I’m not just talking about the two lead actors in their skivvies.) Answers were delivered, and a non-murder was solved, but not before audiences spent a little more time with suspect Kevin, a.k.a. Faux Tiger Tiger, as portrayed by "Abbott Elementary" great Chris Perfetti.
"DTF St. Louis" will likely remain one of the most off-kilter and well-structured shows to hit the 2026 TV schedule, and Perfetti’s character entered late in the game as an additional bizarro layer to the fabric of Floyd Smernitch’s death. It’s like the best example of a hat on a hat, and I was happy to talk to the actor about playing a red-haired red herring. A big reason he joined the show was due to creator Steven Conrad, whose past idiosyncratic creations include "Patriot" and "Perpetual Grace, LTD," not that acting opposite Jason Bateman, Richard Jenkins and Joy Sunday was a chore.
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