HBO's "Tell Me You Love Me," and the line between porn and not-porn

Elizabeth — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 20:17:49 -0800

A friend just showed me some clips of an HBO series called Tell Me You Love Me. It features actors playing couples, and it seems to have a kind of "reality show" format while being a scripted drama at the same time. I haven't seen any full episodes, but it seems that each episode intersperses clips of the "couple" in their "real-life" situations, including having sex, with clips of the same couple seeing a therapist. It aslo includes clips of that therapist May Foster (played by Jane Alexander) and her husband Arthur (played by David Selby) in their "real life" situation, including having sex.