- Fr 7. Sep 2007, 12:11
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Etwas positiver sehe ich der Show schon mal entgegen, nachdem Matt Roush die Serie in seiner heutigen Kolumne mit den tollen Herskovitz-Zwick-Shows der Vergangenheit verglichen hat:
TELL ME YOU LOVE MEDiesen Sonntag startet die neue HBO-Serie, die schon vor ihrem Start für reichlich Diskussion sorgt (siehe Reviews oben) , wobei sie teilweise sicherlich auch in der Vor-Fall-Phase der Networks ein wenig untergeht. Es ist sicherlich interessant, ob HBO es langsam wieder schafft eine neue Serie bei Kritikern und Zuschauern gleichermaßen erfolgreich zu etablieren. Showtime hat HBO in letzter Zeit ja mit Serien wie "Dexter" oder "Weeds" den Rang abgelaufen, was kultiges, qualitätsstarkes und provokantes Programm angeht.
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A provocative and honest exploration of intimacy, 'Tell Me You Love Me' offers an unfiltered look at three couples as they navigate critical periods in their lives. With a candidness that breaks conventional boundaries, creator Cynthia Mort examines the moments – both significant and everyday – that form the basis and language of each relationship.
Twenty-somethings Jamie and Hugo (Michelle Borth and Luke Kirby), experience the vitality of sex but realize their intimacy serves as a drug-like escape from their disparate takes on fidelity and commitment. Katie and Dave (Ally Walker and Tim DeKay), two happy parents in their forties, instead question why their love and devotion to one another hasn't translated into sexual intimacy in nearly a year. Meanwhile, mid-thirties couple Carolyn and Palek (Sonya Walger and Adam Scott), come to learn how much their efforts to become parents and their inability to conceive has strained the intangible connections between them.
Therapist May Foster, (Jane Alexander) works to carefully guide the couples toward healthier relationships and despite a few unresolved issues within her own marriage, she and her retired husband Arthur, manage to share a partnership that is both deeply loving and passionately sexual.
Capturing both the awkwardness and closeness of each couple, Mort opens a window into the complexities of modern relationships Thought-provoking, raw and immediate, 'Tell Me You Love Me' teases out the unspoken dreams, hang-ups and fears that materialize when sex and intimacy connect – or when they diverge.
HBO Website
Reviews:
Does it matter if they did it?
HBO gets raw -- or is it raunchy? -- with sexually explicit 'Tell Me You Love Me'
"Tell Me You Love Me' HBO's intimate therapy session
HBO’s ‘Tell Me You Love Me’ Hits Sex Head-On
HBO's Tell Me You Love Me: Sex Sex Sex!
Etwas positiver sehe ich der Show schon mal entgegen, nachdem Matt Roush die Serie in seiner heutigen Kolumne mit den tollen Herskovitz-Zwick-Shows der Vergangenheit verglichen hat:
The magazine review goes out next week, but this gives me an opportunity to weigh in a few days early, and I'm happy to, because I think Tell Me You Love Me signals HBO getting back on track after John from Cincinnati (which I did feel was dull and pretentious) with a powerful, demanding and at times excruciatingly painful drama about authentic characters in extreme emotional crises. I found myself thinking of the great Herskovitz-Zwick shows, because I was often both deeply moved and deeply exasperated by some of the characters, whom some I'm sure will see as whiny as they go to therapy to confront their problems with relationships, commitment and intimacy. Much has been made about the very explicit sexual content of the show, and I won't lie: The bedroom scenes are about as raw and graphic as anything HBO has produced outside the Real Sex franchise. But this is anti-porn, sex intentionally deglamorized. This is not a show where people have sex to candlelight. If anything, you may wish they'd turn the lights out more often. But the most affecting couple, played beautifully by Tim DeKay and Ally Walker in performances worthy to be mentioned in the same breath as Once and Again, are long-marrieds who haven't had sex in a year though they love each other deeply, and their desire to reconnect while fearing becoming one of those "couples with problems" is pretty searing stuff. I expect Tell Me You Love Me to be polarizing, but it gets richer as it goes on (I've seen all 10 hours), and I can't wait to start hearing reaction to it, pro and con.
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