Tell Me You Love Me: HBO exposes its basest instincts with the gimmicky "Tell Me You Love Me", a show about couples having hard-core sex interrupted with cliched relationship drama.

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.

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