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Tell Me You Love Me (TV Series)

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Original title

Tell Me You Love Me

Year

2007

Running time

60 min.

Country

United States

Director

Cynthia Mort (Creator), Patricia Rozema, Rodrigo García, Anthony Hemingway, Ernest R. Dickerson, Melanie Mayron, Alex Zakrzewski

Screenwriter

Cynthia Mort, Anya Epstein, Dylan Gary, David Gould, David Schulner, Vanessa Taylor

Cast

Cinematography

Alan Caso

Producer

Distributor: HBO

Genre

TV Series. Drama

Synopsis

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 & 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 & 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 & 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.

Awards: 2007: American Film Institute (AFI): Top Ten TV Program of the Year

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Critics' reviews

"[A] deeply interesting, occasionally riveting show"

Maureen Ryan: Chicago Tribune
"'Tell Me You Love Me' is an engrossing, searing, sometimes squirm-inducing study of intimacy, told with a fly-on-the-bedroom-wall realism that is both clinical and wrenching"

Matt Roush: TV Guide
"'Tell Me You Love Me' is not only more provocative than any of the broadcast networks' new fall shows, but also more sophisticated--even than those shows that aspire to be 'adult'"

Tom Shales: The Washington Post
"The series is bold in its candor and unhurried attention to detail, but not quite brave enough to lay bare the bleakest, pettiest injuries that can scar a marriage"

Alessandra Stanley: The New York Times
"Intriguing--but not especially enjoyable"

Tim Goodman: SFGATE
"Unfortunately, it is difficult to stay interested in what happens to any of these characters because most of them are so absurdly unlikable"

Mary McNamara: Los Angeles Times

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Tell Me You Love Me (TV Series)

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