By Josh Nason
Everyone loves a good trailer (some of us used to live in one) so let’s chat about three I just watched for TV shows coming up in March.
Side note: Rotten Tomatoes has a dedicated TV YouTube channel that is worth your free subscription which is how I found these.
DTF: St. Louis
I first read about this show in January, but there weren’t many other details about it other than it featuring Jason Bateman (everything) and David Harbour (Stranger Things, Hellboy, several Marvel flicks).
That’s why I was excited to see the first full trailer dropping last week where we got those details.
Here’s what I picked up: Bateman and Harbour work for a St. Louis TV station (Bateman as a weatherman and Harbour as a sign language expert). But Harbour is dead and that seems to be the focus of the story which I believe is a dark comedy.
There’s also some cheatin’ or potential cheatin’ going on (enter Linda Cardellini) and a Grinder-like app called DTF St. Louis that appears to be the center of some problems.
I loved the edit style of the trailer and I’m always going to give Bateman the benefit of the doubt due to this decade-long heater he’s been on with Ozark, Black Rabbit, Carry-On, The Outsider, etc, etc.
DTF: St. Louis drops on HBO/HBO Max starting Sunday, March 1st and is a seven-episode miniseries.
Rooster
By coincidence, this is another HBO comedy dropping in March, and is from Bill Lawrence and Matt Tarses of Scrubs fame in addition to Shrinking (just Lawrence).
There’s a big familiar face in leading man Steve Carell in addition to Scott MacArthur and Connie Britton, and is about Carrell playing an author who is asked to teach at the college his daughter teaches at due to her having an affair with a student, punching him in the face, and burning down a house.
Yes, all that came from the trailer.
We’ll see if this has trademark Lawrence rapid fire joke style from Scrubs and Shrinking but regardless, I think it’s a worth a shot.
Having said that, while I love Shrinking, Carell takes on some coin flip roles (I didn’t love Mountainhead but thought the The Patient was ok, for example). I hope Rooster is more heads than tails, but when you really think about it, is there really a better side of a coin? I digress.
This 10-episode series debuts on HBO on Sunday, March 8.
The Miniature Wife
And now here’s one you’ll really like…or in my case, probably not.
The Miniature Wife stars Matthew MacFayden (Succession, Death By Lightning) and Elizabeth Banks (The 40 Year Old Virgin, The Hunger Games, Pitch Perfect).
The premise as I saw it: McFayden is a scientist who specializes in making things small and that’s what he did to his wife who is living in a dollhouse, nearly gets vacuumed up and so on. It’s a modern day Honey, I Shrunk The Kids (an iconic movie franchise if you grew up in the 90s).
And that’s where I get off the train. I’m still waiting for the first Peacock show I am excited to watch and this ain’t it.
It’s a 10-episode limited series with episodes in the 30-minute range that debuts on April 9.
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