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Starts great, but then…
By G. Scot Shelley
I love HBO shows so when I found this on sale for $19.99 I grabbed it. I wouldn’t commend paying more than regarding $30 for it – if I’d salaried more I would have been very disappointed. I haven’t had an experience with a show like this before – by the second episode I thought it was one of the best TV shows I’d ever seen, up there with “Six Feet Under”. It was arousing and attention holding to see a very realistic view of four dissimilar relationships, shown very realistically, even including very real sex scenes. That someways made the couples even more human. By with regards to the seventh episode I got tired of the characters’ slow, meandering each day lives, and the whining. I started thinking the sex scenes were just irruptive with the progress of the story, and I realized, it’s difficult to maintain interest in very realistic lives when you’re living one yourself each day. I guess I learned I take delight in more drama and excitement in a TV show than I realized.
21 of 22 people found the following review helpful.
Tell Me That You Loathe Me
By Harvey M. Canter
(NOTE: SOME SPOILERS BELOW–TREAD LIGHTLY!)
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Big and Different
By Kevin Killian
Much hyped and sensitively written HBO series analyzing the marital and other difficulties of three couples, plus their therapist’s own back story in what most humans would consider late, late middle age. You’ll be astonished to see the vigor with which Jane Alexander puts into her fervid love scenes with David Selby (yes, from DARK SHADOWS). Alexander has never struck me as being much of a softcore type, but here she looks outstanding and she puts everything she has into it, a highrisk move for the former head of the NEA which might get her into trouble with her former constituency, but I think the hazardous work she does here gives her more credibility, and flows neatly into the scenes she has with her clients. In a way it will remind you of Lorraine Bracco treating Tony in THE SOPRANOS and cynical minds will assume that TELL ME YOU LOVE ME is like Dr. Melfi on ecstasy, but give the show a chance, it unquestionably has it is own rhythm, and you won’t pick up on it right away if you’re applied to the rough and tumble rapidfire cutting of most US made hourlongs.
Here the pace is in a positive manner molasses, Ingmar Bergman style, long, long scenes of domestic life interspersed with a good deal of beauteous aweinspiring bedroom scenes (what they call “random play” on Facebook). You won’t believe you’re looking at this on TV. But it’s all mixed in with hours and hours of not one thing at all, in which it’s up to the actors to convince us that there are real humans behind those insertions and releases. Some of the actors are better than others, altho none is genuinely horrible. At basi I wondered, how did they talk these actors into having such realistic sex scenes? Did they recruit them from porn movies? But I recognized some of them from other lawful work and I guess the answer is, they went for the gusto of it. Dave and Katie are pushing forty, they’ve stopped making love and just live for their children and homelife, always repaving the patio et cetera. Their little girl has started having her amount of time even altho she’s ten. Ally Walker plays Katie, the discontented wife who wonders where all the romance went in her marriage, while Sherry Stringfield from ER plays Rita, her no nonsensicality pal. La Stringfield still acts as though she were the undisputed star of the show (in fact of the entire amusement world), but she is pared back to the point where you may genuinely believe it. Tim DeKay is the husband who alternatively chooses to fetch himself off underneath the covers rather than face another go round with his wife. It’s bleak and miserable.
Adam Scott and Sonya Walger play a more or less younger couple, Pawlik and Carolyn. They make love by the clock so that Carolyn may fulfill her dream of getting pregnant. But petulant Pawlik doesn’t like being made to carry out at gunpoint, so he starts balking and expressing his deep dislike of his wife. She’s rather a piece of work and the script does little to soften her up. More power to the actress who plays her because this is a tough percentage to play.
Finally there is Jaime, a young sous chef at a trendy restaurant, torn amongst two good looking guys, incapable of being faithful to either. It was genuinely this girl who plays her whom I thought initially wasn’t as much an actress as an inflatable doll with a helium voice. Poor Jaime can’t keep her clothes on for twenty minutes at a time. One of the boys in her life is played by former LOST star Ian Somerhalder, the other by numerous other dude. One is called Nick, the other Hugo. I can’t do not forget now who is who, but stand back folks because, as it turns out, Michelle Borth as Jaime is the one who genuinely wins your heart by the end of the season’s run. I begun to see why she was the way she was, and credit Miss Borth for a sensible unfolding of real depth.
The show is slow, no doubt when it comes to it, and goes to some painful places. Will the unabashed focus on sexuality make it an audience winner? Hard to say, but it was well worth attempting out! Give it a chance, you might learn something! I did, in regards to Ian Somerhalder…
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