Dead to me Alum Linda Cardellini has signed on to star in DTF St. Louisa seven-episode limited series starring Jason Bateman and David Harbor and executive produced by writer, director, showrunner and executive producer Steve Conrad (The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, Patriot).

The darkly comedic series, whose title references the social media acronym for “down to f*ck,” is about a love triangle between three adults whose middle-aged malaise leads to one of them dying.

Cardellini will play Carol.

DTF St. Louis emerged from Steve Conrad’s limited series project The murder trial of my dentistwhich HBO developed more than two years ago with Harbor and Pedro Pascal starring and EP. It was a true crime drama about dentist Dr. Gilberto Nunez (Pascal) of Kingston, New York, who was on trial for allegedly killing his friend Tom Kolman (Harbour).

There is no dentist DTF St. Louiswhich comes from the same creative and production team: writer, director and showrunner Conrad, who serves as executive producer 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 currently stars in Hulu’s film Nutcracker, alongside Ben Stiller, who opened the 2024 Toronto Film Festival. She recently wrapped Way of the warrior child, alongside Chris Pratt in Skydance’s film for Apple. She will next be seen in a Netflix series Not a good deed, alongside Ray Romano, Lisa Kudrow, Denis Leary and Luke Wilson, a role that reunites her with Liz Feldman, creator of Dead to mein which she starred for three seasons and received Emmy and SAG nominations. She is represented by CAA and Jackoway, Tyerman, Wertheimer.