Written by David Morgan

 

The LATimes is reporting that HBO's new show Tell Me You Love Me will be "chockablock with bosoms and things." 

 

No previous series, on pay cable or anywhere else, has dared show anything even close to this much skin; the climax, if you will, of the first episode finds a woman (Sonya Walger) in her 30s masturbating her husband (Adam Scott) to orgasm, with the entire act and all relevant body parts plainly visible. Even Jane Alexander — yes, that Jane Alexander, the snow-domed, regally poised 67-year-old former chief of the National Endowment for the Arts — drops trousers for some frisky senior sex.

 

The producers say the show, which has been compared to the brilliant but challenging films of John Cassavetes, is not about sex but about the intimacy involved for the couples. Creator Cynthia Mort told the Times, "I didn't realize people would be so focused on the sex."
Welcome to 95% of our culture, Ms. Mort.