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moviegirl11	Tell Me You Love Me - HBO (the show with all the sex)	Lead	[-]
Posts: 1942 (09/06/07 8:35 AM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts	The first episode of Tell Me You Love Me is available on HBO On Demand right now. It doesnt officially premier on HBO until Sunday, September 9th. Here are my thoughts on it. There is a lot of sex - not the porny kind you normally see in movies and pay-cable TV series. There was a LOT of nudity in this and it felt like I was watching actual sex happening. The characters are very realistic, as are their relationships. They did a brilliant job with that. The problem is I dont think many people are going to watch a show that is so realistic. I mean even our reality TV isn't realistic - do we really want our drama series to be so close to reality? So I thought for what it was (a show about realistic couples with realistic problems), it was spot on. Will people want to watch it every week? Honestly, I dont think so.
PAPAYOKE		#1	[-]
Posts: 18396 (09/06/07 9:09 AM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts	Any torrents for this?
indiekid26		#2	[-]
Posts: 5121 (09/06/07 11:57 AM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts	Exactly what I popped in here to ask...
ProbstFan123		#3	[-]
Posts: 5102 (09/06/07 12:06 PM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts	None that I could find. I'll give this show a chance, but I get the feeling it won't fare much better than John from Cincinnati. Hopefully HBO will get moving with Preacher and A Song of Ice and Fire. Those are two series that could inject some life into the network. True Blood, the new Alan Ball series, also sounds promising.
PAPAYOKE		#4	[-]
Posts: 18400 (09/06/07 12:09 PM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts	This show doesn't have the burden of being perceived as the "show that killed DEADWOOD", nor is it really viewed as the "show that's taking over the reins for The Sopranos." Should fare better for those reasons alone.
ProbstFan123		#5	[-]
Posts: 5135 (09/09/07 1:13 PM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts	Six hours until the sexfest begins! Can you feel the excitement?
seaguy		#6	[-]
Posts: 6269 (09/09/07 1:30 PM) AI Forum Moderator Reply Quote More Recent Posts	I forgot I had HBO(!), so I just set the tivo. For research purposes only, of course.
ScruffyGuy		#7	[-]
Posts: 5321 (09/09/07 3:34 PM) Registered User Reply Quote More Recent Posts	TV Guide preview promises three instances of full frontal male nudity of the floppy kind. Eh. Assuming breasts and stuff as well; buttocks and such. Script and acting is probably incidental. Until new episodes of Real Sex appear, this will have to do.
Charlie McTavish		#8	[-]
Posts: 186 (09/09/07 4:33 PM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts	She was not really strokin his dick. That was a stunt cock, right?
moviegirl11		#9	[-]
Posts: 1960 (09/09/07 7:15 PM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts	From what I've read, its a prosthetic but it looks real enough. After he's "done" she looks at the "stuff" on her hand. There's also a shot of a woman on top of a man. Its filmed from behind them so you have a nice view of his... area. Ok, "nice" wouldnt be the best way to describe the view.
ProbstFan123		#10	[-]
Posts: 5141 (09/09/07 7:57 PM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts	He took it out.
ProbstFan123		#11	[-]
Posts: 5142 (09/09/07 8:26 PM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts	As for the show itself, I wasn't too impressed. The young couple is annoying, and the couple trying to have a baby didn't interest me at all. The older married couple are the only ones I even remotely sympathized with. I liked the marriage counselor too. I'll tune in again next week, but I think this show is going to lose my interest fast if it's nothing but boring people talking about their issues, punctuated by a few scenes of explicit sex. Californication does this concept much better, probably because it doesn't take itself so damn seriously. And David Duchovny is more likeable than any of the wet blankets on this show. Last Edited By: ProbstFan123 09/09/07 11:26 PM. Edited 1 times.
PAPAYOKE		#12	[-]
Posts: 18412 (09/09/07 8:32 PM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts	There'd better be a motherfuckin' torrent of this and CYE before I go to bed tonight! I refuse to give HBO the satisfaction of subscribing before THE WIRE returns.
moviegirl11		#13	[-]
Posts: 1961 (09/09/07 8:34 PM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts	PAPAYOKE its really not worth it. Probst, I'm not even giving it til the second episode. I honestly dont care what happens to any of the characters.
ProbstFan123		#14	[-]
Posts: 5143 (09/09/07 8:37 PM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts	Definitely check out the CYE episode, though. It was a classic.
GlamsSlam		#15	[-]
Posts: 1995 (09/09/07 11:19 PM) Registered User Reply Quote More Recent Posts	Well the sex got me interested and I like the Doc the show however is really really white in every sense of the word. Every couple is very middle class or successful even the young hottie is a teacher and she is chef and no one is black or gay or fugly.... which is what real marriage is. Fat people not having sex or poor people having sex but no money to figure out why they just have sex and babies and can't be happy,. cause when you are poor you have a hard time worrying about that other shit. This is something I might watch if nothing else is on and thankfully a real marriage is on with Curb.. that is what its about....but I think perhaps I might find the therapist and her husband interesting if not her sessions but listening to them complain when they are not fucking bores me.
matttheduck		#16	[-]
Posts: 2933 (09/09/07 11:36 PM) Registered User Reply Quote More Recent Posts	I have never understood why there aren't more shows featuring fat, ugly, poor people. The market for that kind of show has to be huge and it's totally underserved. Wouldn't the poor all watch it, and then buy the products that were advertised? And the fat people? Maybe not the ugly ones, though, because nobody thinks they're ugly.
WatchingJen		#17	[-]
Posts: 337 (09/10/07 5:52 AM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts	I don't know, I found the show spot on. Virtually every scene was one that has happened during my marriage. Except for the last one, but if I'm getting blow jobs at 70, then there is a lot to look forward to. It wasn't flashy or exciting, but then again most marriages aren't. Kinda like a case study of how we view love in the different stages of our lives. Don't know if it's enough to make people tune in, but it was nice to see a little more of Penny from Lost.
moviegirl11		#18	[-]
Posts: 1962 (09/10/07 6:27 AM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts	WatchingJen wrote: I don't know, I found the show spot on. Virtually every scene was one that has happened during my marriage. Except for the last one, but if I'm getting blow jobs at 70, then there is a lot to look forward to. It wasn't flashy or exciting, but then again most marriages aren't. Kinda like a case study of how we view love in the different stages of our lives. Don't know if it's enough to make people tune in, but it was nice to see a little more of Penny from Lost. I agree with you totally about it being spot on. The creator did such a good job of really nailing the insecurities of people in relationships. The problem is, who really wants to watch that on a TV show? Just because its realistic doesn't mean its entertaining.
zimm31		#19	[-]
Posts: 535 (09/10/07 8:34 AM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts	I'm with Glam, it's a lot of upper middle class people complaining about their lives. The couple not having sex is believable, the young couple is, but the couple trying to have a baby doesn't seem as realistic. Hand jobs on the couch are a waste, and I just don't see it happening, homework or not.
Marque Mywords		#20	[-]
Posts: 1975 (09/10/07 9:49 AM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts	It was boring as hell. Dull couples whining about their relationships, punctuated by sex scenes that really weren't as groundbreaking as the publicity suggests. HBO should drop the pretense that this is a Serious Drama, cut out all the scripted stuff, and just do pure porn.

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