New HBO Show: "Tell Me You Love Me": A Drama About Relationships (with...um... real hardcore sex scenes)

Will there be cameos by Steve Buscemi, Annabelle Sciorra, and Frankie Valli?

If it was "real hardcore" there wouldn't be any question as to whether they were actually having sex, no?

I hope this is like a series of Cronenberg's "Crash."

That show, I hope it is like good and effective because the world sure needs some non-bland and retarded porno.

Yeah I seriously doubt they would make it any more explicit than Crash.

I don't think HBO could/would go any further than what they've shown on Real Sex or the Nevada hooker show - no penetration but maybe a little more graphic than your average softcore movie.

I don't get why anyone even looks at softcore; like if I'm watching porn I want sex and not a bunch of people waving their asses around pointlessly.

Not that I need to see a million meat-slapping shots (which get quite tedious), but whenever someone rented a movie (from the video store where I worked) like "Women of Peaches Video Get Super Sassy Seminude," I really, really didn't get it.

From some Mr. Skin kind of site:

"HBO is about to heat up TV screens this fall with numerous scenes of unsimulated sex. No, it's not 'Real Sex' or 'Cathouse', two of the networks' steamiest reality series. It's a new fictional drama entitled 'Tell Me You Love Me' and it's already got America talking.

The show is a realistic look at the day to day lives of three married couples. How realistic? The first episode features a woman (played by 'Lost' actress Sonya Walger) masturbating her husband (Adam Scott) to orgasm... and nothing is left to the imagination. Later episodes are said to feature 45 year old actress Ally Walker (former star of 'Profiler') give an unsimulated blowjob to an unnamed 19 year old actor; actress Sherry Stringfield ('ER') masturbating with a vibrator; and actress Katharine Towne ('Blades of Glory') being fingered by 'Lost' actor Ian Somerhalder, who later masturbates and climaxes on her bare chest. How will people take all of this in the prime time market? 'Tell Me You Love Me' is set to air at 10PM on Sundays, not exactly the usual hour for acts of this nature to be broadcast on HBO."

who later masturbates and climaxes on her bare chest

Hold up, c on t for reals? They don't even show cumshots on the Playboy Channel. They must just be saying this shit so everyone will at least watch the first episode.

Preview here:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=UcarsDQUQhA

Yeah, I dunno. I want this show to be well-done because I've always wanted to see something like this. Not with hardcore cum-shots necessarily, but something that portrayed sex realistically and as an integral part of a relationship. So I'm hoping that the sex isn't all hot porno fucking, and that some of it is fumbly and awkward and sweet and funny and occasionally boring.

There's something kind of hot about that sweet fumbling genuine sex to be honest.

Well, yeah. I should've said "hot" porno fucking.

I've always wanted to see something like this

Eyes Wide Shut was trailed (aeons beforehand) as being along those lines. Of course it turned out to be nothing of the sort. I guess the trouble is that no-one with hopes of being a career actor or actress would even consider hardcore, and no-one who actually does do hardcore would be able to make it look even remotely everyday. So I'm sceptical about this kind of hype. The trailer does look nice, though.

this all sounds pretty post-shortbus i guess

people with HBO > people who have actually seen Shortbus

So I'm hoping that the sex isn't all hot porno fucking, and that some of it is fumbly and awkward and sweet and funny and occasionally boring.

Louis CK's show tried to do this, kinda

This sounds unbelievably lame.

From some Mr. Skin kind of site:

"HBO is about to heat up TV screens this fall with numerous scenes of unsimulated sex. No, it's not 'Real Sex' or 'Cathouse', two of the networks' steamiest reality series. It's a new fictional drama entitled 'Tell Me You Love Me' and it's already got America talking.

The show is a realistic look at the day to day lives of three married couples. How realistic? The first episode features a woman (played by 'Lost' actress Sonya Walger) masturbating her husband (Adam Scott) to orgasm... and nothing is left to the imagination. Later episodes are said to feature 45 year old actress Ally Walker (former star of 'Profiler') give an unsimulated blowjob to an unnamed 19 year old actor; actress Sherry Stringfield ('ER') masturbating with a vibrator; and actress Katharine Towne ('Blades of Glory') being fingered by 'Lost' actor Ian Somerhalder, who later masturbates and climaxes on her bare chest. How will people take all of this in the prime time market? 'Tell Me You Love Me' is set to air at 10PM on Sundays, not exactly the usual hour for acts of this nature to be broadcast on HBO."

PREDICTION: none of this will happen.

people with HBO > people who have actually seen Shortbus

-- marmotwolof, Sunday, July 22, 2007 7:16 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Link

ya i'm just saying it soudns like the same kind of thing.

Splitting hairs, I know, but Shortbus was pretty far removed from hardcore, too.

i met the orgy scene girl from shortbus the other night! super hot.

Revive, for "Tell Me You Love Me" is upon us. Two episodes in, I like it. It's broad and kinda obvious, but nonetheless sometimes cuts very near the bone wrt the distances we feel and discover and create with the people we sleep beside. Also, there are many white people.

And it's all straight people so far. But I think the writing is actually pretty decent. Pleasantly surprised.

Margo Stilley, the actress (can you say that thesedays? anyroad..) off "9 Songs" ...

Did she have a 'career' after that one? I see in IMDB she has done more films. But I don't know of them, why should I? Not being up on fillums thesedays...

caught up on this show over the weekend. i'm totally into now. who's watching it?

I'm following it w/o really being all that into it.

It gets more tiresome with each episode.

From some Mr. Skin kind of site:

"HBO is about to heat up TV screens this fall with numerous scenes of unsimulated sex. No, it's not 'Real Sex' or 'Cathouse', two of the networks' steamiest reality series. It's a new fictional drama entitled 'Tell Me You Love Me' and it's already got America talking.

The show is a realistic look at the day to day lives of three married couples. How realistic? The first episode features a woman (played by 'Lost' actress Sonya Walger) masturbating her husband (Adam Scott) to orgasm... and nothing is left to the imagination. Later episodes are said to feature 45 year old actress Ally Walker (former star of 'Profiler') give an unsimulated blowjob to an unnamed 19 year old actor; actress Sherry Stringfield ('ER') masturbating with a vibrator; and actress Katharine Towne ('Blades of Glory') being fingered by 'Lost' actor Ian Somerhalder, who later masturbates and climaxes on her bare chest. How will people take all of this in the prime time market? 'Tell Me You Love Me' is set to air at 10PM on Sundays, not exactly the usual hour for acts of this nature to be broadcast on HBO."

PREDICTION: none of this will happen.

-- 31g, Sunday, July 22, 2007 11:01 PM

I'm curious whether or not this prediction came true.

i couldn't get thru 5 minutes of an episode so i stopped watching

PREDICTION: none of this will happen.

I'm curious whether or not this prediction came true.

Well, at least one of those things has happened, but as it turns out there was a fake weiner involved rather than a real one.

This takes the Tinto Brass approach to sex, eh? Plastic cocks.

Has there been much fuss over this show? In the UK I haven't seen it mentioned anywhere and we usually love to fill our newspapers (OK, The Guardian) with reports of what's going on in the world of American TV.

Two episodes in, I like it. It's broad and kinda obvious, but nonetheless sometimes cuts very near the bone wrt the distances we feel and discover and create with the people we sleep beside.

Never heard the hype about the show, but just stumbled on Episode 4. The above quote is OTM. My heart especially went out to the couple with two kids when the husband blew up in their therapy session. Not totally true-to-life dialogue, but the emotional pain seemed genuine and real.

The drama is better than I thought it would be but the sex scenes are worse. Sonya Walger is hott.

Is this show being renewed for another season? The promos suggest not.

this show is not very good.

I watched the first episode, and then forgot it existed. And I still don't care!

i can't even be bothered to watch it ondemand. that's really saying something.

I empathize with the 40-ish couple with two kids. Their relationship seems real to me. I'm interested in what happens to them.

The other couples on the show are of less interest to me. The 30-ish couple that was trying to have a baby (and now are pregnant) presents a somewhat compelling storyline, but they are such an unlikable couple -- especially him -- that it makes it hard to care about them.

So, do they show penetration and cumshots?

Not that I've seen. I don't get what's so ''edgy'' about the show, but I've only seen three episodes.