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Features: DVD, Pan and Scan (TV Format)
This is the story of three couples trying to stay afloat - and one woman's efforts to show them how to do it. HBO's newest adult drama series explores issues of intimacy - through the point of view of a 20-something couple, prenuptial concerns and fidelity are examined, while the series' 30-something couple confront their failed attempts to start a family, coping with the effects it has on their sex life.And after two kids and 12 years of marriage, a couple in their early 40s question why their love and devotion hasn't translated into physical intimacy in nearly a year. Tell Me You Love Me explores the telling, everyday moments that can make or break a couple's commitment to one another, both emotionally and physically. This four disc collection includes all 10 episodes from The Complete First Season of Tell Me You Love Me!
"Unlike anything that's ever been on television...sticks around after other dramas fade out...breaks new ground..." The New Yorker
"Provocative...sophisticated...has the makings of an HBO blockbuster...enlightening..." The Washington Post
Editor's Note
A provocative and explicit look at sex and intimacy, TELL ME YOU LOVE ME follows three couples as they face very different, but just as crucial, junctures in their lives. In their twenties and just engaged, Hugo (Luke Farrell Kirby) and Jamie (Michelle Borth) find their relationship threatened by the emotional pressures of marriage and fidelity. Career woman Carolyn (Sonya Walger), in her thirties and childless, is determined to get pregnant even if it means drifting apart from her reluctant husband (Adam Scott). Meanwhile, David (Tim DeKay) and Katie (Ally Walker) enter middle age with demanding family responsibilities, but a nonexistent sex life. Tying them all together is Dr. May Foster (Jane Alexander), an elderly therapist who tries to provide comfort and aid, just as she explores the changing nature of her own marriage. More about offering a complete view of human relationships than gratuitous nudity and steamy sex (although there's plenty of that, too), this groundbreaking show provides plenty of conversation fodder as it captures all the passion, awkwardness, and stumbles of love and lovemaking. This collection presents the first season of the uninhibited series.
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Release Information
| | Studio: HBO |
| Release Date: 1/6/2009 |
| Catalog ID: 1000035866 | | UPC: 00883929003457 | | Number of Discs: 4 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English | | Video: Color |
Aspect Ratio | | Anamorphic Widescreen 1.78:1 |
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| | Professional Reviews | Big Picture Big Sound 7 of 10
You may not have seen "Tell Me You Love Me", but you've probably heard about it. If you've passed a water cooler recently and overheard the words "HBO" and "sex", it's likely someone was talking about "Tell Me You Love Me", HBO's latest "groundbreaking drama" which features a standard array of relationship woes interrupted by extensive amounts of simulated sex. And I don't mean "TV sex" or even "movie sex" -- you know, the kind with entwined hands and strategically-placed sheets. No, I'm talking about full-on, warts-n-all, hey-I-see-a-penis sex. It seems in an age desensitized by excess, the only way to be "groundbreaking" is to bring porn to the masses...The actors, bless 'em, give it their best. Ally Walker in particular does some fine work as Katie. Ironically, she's the only character not having sex (her husband isn't interested and somewhere along the way, it seems, she forgot how to masturbate)...The grand irony of the whole "Tell Me You Love Me" affair is that for all the sex, nudity and simulated masturbation, what's really been exposed is HBO's basest instincts. It is TV. It is HBO. And it is just about the ratings. - Joe Lozito
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