October 31, 2007 | 5 Comments

TV Sex Drama Getting Slightly Less Boring


We were tempted to write off HBO’s pseudo-hit “Tell Me You Love Me” once we discovered the show’s familiar pattern of 55 minutes of dull people talking about their dull sex lives, interrupted by brief interludes of certain combinations of those people having robotic and passionless R-rated sex. Yet, for some reason we keep finding ourselves drawn back, perhaps in the vague hope that all that media hype will some day pay off and give all the cultural handwringers something to really worry about. Don’t worry, the pattern hasn’t changed, but this week we were at least treated to some reverse cowgirl and … do our eyes deceive us or is that an actual ballsack? Hey, you can’t do that on basic cable!

· “Too much TV sex makes you blind” (timesoline.co.uk)
· “Tell Me You Love Me” (hbo.com)

Previously: Mainstream Sex Watch: “Tell Me You Love” This?

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  • pvaras

    I am trying to give this show a chance. However, even sex scenes such as this one are too small a payoff for an hour of listening to yuppies, hipsters, and suburbanites drone on and on about their so called problems. Come on, HBO. Give us another Sopranos. You’ve already got Real Sex going for you; why compete against yourself?

  • joehoya

    Dude, that’s what TiVo is for.

  • Azndude51

    I read somewhere that they use prosthetics for some scenes.

  • heterophobic

    This is why “film sex” is worthless. When she moves from the reverse cowgirl to the other way around, you can clearly see that Somerhalder is completely flacid and was just lying under her the whole time. It ruins the entire scene. She gets back on top of him and, what, writhes around on top of his soft dick? Bah.
    I appreciate the effort to push the envelope, but they could at least have a fluffer on the set to give us some semblance of realism if they’re going to go that far.

  • Trackback

    ONAN THE LIBERTARIAN by Molly Lambert Fleshbot nails the appeal of Tell Me You Love Me. Welcome back to cable, Tag. We see you are a Rangers fan. We also see your longballs (or is it a prosthetic, as has been alleged?)