They pulled me in with “DTF” and lost me at “cyclone”.
An early scene has a news team broadcasting outdoors from a severe weather event. The news crawl says it’s a tornado. News teams don’t broadcast from a tornado. News teams hide under their desks in a tornado. The National Weather Service abandons their posts during a tornado. Some news teams might drive about in a tornado but they don’t get out of the KSTL StormTacker reinforced SUV behemoth.
Then they referred to the storm as a cyclone, which is the name for a tropical storm. Typhoon = hurricane = cyclone depending on the nearest ocean.
All I can guess is that HBO filmed it last year, and given that a swath of the downtown community hasn’t recovered from last year’s tornado, maybe they thought it would be in bad taste? So they thought they could doctor the audio and forgot about the news crawl?
I actually stuck with it until some unhappy child was throwing rocks at his stepfather’s house and I thought, we’re done here. I imagine it might have said a lot about what happens when you’re awkwardly thrust into an intimate relationship with a stranger (Down to Fuck, Down to Stepfamily, Down to Die in a Tornado/Cyclone), but I was not down for it.