Rolo comments for Tell Me You Love Me series (2007) Lots of things that bore me to death.The LookAll the colors are washed out and bland, bland, bland.There is no contrast. We never see any striking colors. Everything is bland gray and brown. Horribly visually boring! The composition is beyond boring with just an inept, TV-beginning-director look to it.The CharactersBoring, boring, boring. Milk wash characters. Daytime soap opera has more interesting characters. And better stories. (Next point.) Boring StoriesWhat are the stories? A bunch of self-absorbed boring people who the producers and writers think will actually interest us, the audience.I will only tune in occasionally in the future to watch this wreck of a program.Pseudo Sex ScenesOh come on. The producers and writers and HBO actually think that they can save this whole alleged series by throwing in Cinemax fako sex scenes scattered here and there as a déclassé way to cheesily and blatantly try to attract an audience for a series with the most visually boring (colors, composition, editing, movement within the frame, viewer visual interest and excitement - it is missing all of these) presentation I have ever seen in my life.Even daytime soaps and teen homemade camcorder films generally present a product more interesting than this bland, spoiled milk of a would be sexual potboiler.Note to the producers and directors and cinematographers and directors: Learn how to color, light, compose, create movement, edit and make a much more visually interesting product.Note to the producers and writers: Learn how to write characters that are real, that the audience actually thinks might be more than a boring, night-time, weak-soap-opera imitation.Do you really think that tossing in a weak and pathetic pseudo sex scene at the end of an episode, with lots of moaning and groaning but nothing actually going on because the audience doesn't give a fleep about the non-characters, will actually save one of the most non-visually, non-feast full series I have ever seen, with some of the most bland and boring characters in existence, who are as apparently self-absorbed as the producers, writers, directors and the broadcaster, HBO? I have more to say, but it is late, and I actually have much more interesting things to do right now.I will come back to this review, time permitting, and add to it as required.I will come back rarely to this boring car wreck of an alleged series just to watch occasionally in slow motion, non-fascination as this sloth-moving, visually-bland and self-absorbed, but non-involving-to-the-viewer, HBO bore crashes to a well deserved, plodding demise.Stay tuned for future non-developments.

My biggest gripe: a therapist couldn't tolerate a client walking out of a session the way Carolyn did. In fact, couldn't then allow Palek to go after her. Ground rules. But, OK, for dramatic effect, on TV -- it works. For character development, it shows you where Carolyn is really coming from (and Palek, too).I disagree with those who have said the characters are not developed. I think the writing on this show is quite good. I think the acting and directing is also very good. I may agree with some who feel the characters are not always entirely sympathetic. They are real. Warts and all. Like people I know.As a guy, I am *really* glad I am not in relationship with a woman like Carolyn (and feel a bit sorry for Palek) although she is attractive. But she is well enough written and acted that I think I can almost begin to understand her a little. And even feel sorry for her . . . She makes her own life very cold and distant. She looks so together, but fear is behind all she does, which is why she won't share control with her friends (let them in on the fact they are trying for a baby) or even with her own partner. Chooses instead to try to carry the weight of everything, all alone.Similarly with Jaime and Hugo -- the situation is subtle and realistic enough, well enough played, that I can see both her point of view and also his. Really interested to find out what will happen, in the end.

And I'm French... Who wanna see "realistic" sex and relationships problems on screen when you can have lots (and lots, and lots) of them in your real life? Like in a french movie, nobody seems to have (or to need) a job or to care about anything else than their little and meaningless lives. Furthermore, in real life, relationships and sex are directly related to money and job problems and to your social background. Nothing is said in the show about the social aspects of relationships - of course, because otherwise it would never air because it would be truly disturbing. Showing explicit sex (or explicit violence) is always a cheap way for people to pretend that they are "open mind" and "liberal" (like some famous editor of adult content magazines who manages to make everybody forget he's just a pimp). We sure know that in France where 70% of the movies are just soft porn with bad lightening (well, not exactly: the characters have some books in their homes so you can tell you're seeing a "real" movie).Besides, what's the matter with those women shaved to look like twelve years old little girls or porn "stars"? In Californication there was a very good line about that...Well, it's difficult to me to understand how people can find this show disturbing. Sadly, they are plenty of more disturbing things in the world. However, if prude people are offended, that's a good point!

I've watched the first two episodes of this series and I truly enjoyed it, and not for the explicit scenes. The drastically different couples all have very deep character profiles that seem to parallel in unexpected ways. If you can look below the surface of being a "glorified porno" like jrpk1964 thinks it is, the true intentions of the show will become apparent. To portray the lives of these couples each with unique situations that all seem to share commonalities which you can relate to. Overall I wouldn't call this show ground-breaking but it is definitely a well executed drama.