Protraph Lack of good storyline.

LouHomey From my favorite movies..

Casey Duggan It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny

Jemima It's a movie as timely as it is provocative and amazingly, for much of its running time, it is weirdly funny.

chrisliz57 You see, many couples in Australia would never dream of seeing a therapist. The mere stigma of owning up to issues, issues most couples experience, is just too confronting. The worry that friends or family might find out may lead too more sleepless nights, a more important consequence than the actual saving of the marriage. Well in the privacy of ones own home comes "Tell Me You Love Me". A riveting drama more akin to a self - help DVD. We meet a therapist confronting her own problems, deal with the contrasting issues of three couples. The clever positioning of the drama is that the ages of each couple ranges from early 20's to early sixties (the therapist and her past) and the challenges faced by each reflect their stage of life. Sex becomes the key to the healing for each partnership. The sex scenes are explicit and may be confronting but that adds to the spice of the series. The sex experienced by all of the characters helps them to reveal where they are at emotionally. The therapist encourages sexual communication for all her clients but under prescription,and each of her prescriptions are modeled with precision. An important piece of television ...... if you have a partner, sit and watch this together. If the themes bring fresh thoughts and dialogue in your union then maybe you've saved two things. Therapist fees not covered by Medicare or maybe, but more importantly, your relationship.

Rolo Tomasi 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.

david_n_webber 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.

Robert B. Marks This is a review of the pilot only, and I think that it can be a worthy review because of that - the point of any pilot is to make you want to watch the rest of the series, and in that this pilot failed rather badly.And that is a shame, considering that the show is filled with potential. It's about time that a frank, European-style depiction of sex appeared on North American television, and it is even a breath of fresh air. And, from the beginning, the show gives the sense that there are immense depths for it to explore. Unfortunately, while the concept is very good, it is in the execution that the show fails.The greatest weakness is in character development. The characters simply aren't developed beyond their genitalia, or more specifically, their problems regarding said genitalia. By the end of the first hour, in the three main couples, I only knew what two people did for a living, and the show only gives you the occasional flash that these characters have any sort of life beyond their sex (or lack thereof). The only subplot of the pilot was about a 10 year old girl getting a period - so even the kids are defined by their genitalia.And, ultimately, at the end of the episode I couldn't care less about what happened to any of these people. A realistic depiction of relationship problems is a good thing, but you have to have some emotional investment in the characters for said depiction to actually be meaningful, and the show just doesn't show you enough to allow for that. We are introduced to these characters through their problems, we see their problems throughout, but we never explore any of the good things in their lives, or the interaction between the positive and negatives in said lives. With character development that poor, it renders what could be a wonderfully deep series very shallow indeed.