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Tell Me You Love Me

★ 7.2 5K votes 2007–2007 1 season · 10 episodes Ended HBO
Sexually explicitFrank sexual content.This show: 9/10Emotionally heavyDemands real emotional stamina from the viewer.This show: 9/10Character studyInterior life matters more than plot.This show: 9/10NaturalisticUnderstated, lifelike performances and look.This show: 8/10Mental healthPsychological struggle treated with real seriousness.This show: 7/10Slow burnDeliberate pacing where the payoffs are earned over long stretches.This show: 7/10Love storyA love story as the engine of the show, not a side plot.This show: 7/10Secrets & liesHidden truths straining every relationship.This show: 7/10
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Starring
Michelle BorthTim DeKayAislinn PaulAdam ScottSonya WalgerAlly Walker
Written by
Cynthia Mort
Starring
Michelle BorthTim DeKayAislinn PaulAdam ScottSonya WalgerAlly Walker
Written by
Cynthia Mort
Ratings per Episode
246810
Votes per Episode
063125188250

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About

"Marriage stripped of its comfortable evasions"

Three couples at different life stages, all in therapy with the same psychologist, navigate desire, resentment, and the slow erosion or repair of intimacy. The show is deliberately slow and talky, built around long unbroken scenes of arguments and confessions rather than plot. It became notorious for its frank, unsimulated sex scenes, but what actually carries it is the discomfort of watching couples say things to each other that most shows skip over. It's intimate in the literal sense, and often uncomfortable in ways that feel deliberate rather than gratuitous.

Watch it for

the unusually honest, unhurried depiction of what long-term intimacy actually looks like.

Maybe skip if

you want plot momentum or find graphic, unsimulated sex scenes distracting rather than purposeful.

Written by our AI editor to help you decide, spoiler-free by design.

All Seasons

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Season 12007
6.91K108h 34m
EpTitleRatingYoursVotesRuntime
▶1Pilot6.9
20955 min
▶2Episode #1.26.7
14150 min
▶3Episode #1.36.9
13348 min
▶4Episode #1.46.9
12550 min
▶5Episode #1.57.0
11353 min
▶6Episode #1.67.2
11852 min
▶7Episode #1.76.9
11154 min
▶8Episode #1.86.9
11651 min
▶9Episode #1.96.8
10650 min
▶10Episode #1.107.2
10751 min

Full Cast & Crew

Cast

Michelle Borth Jaime
Tim DeKay David
Aislinn Paul Isabella
Adam Scott Palek
Sonya Walger Carolyn
Ally Walker Katie
Jane Alexander Dr. May Foster
Katharine Towne Mason
David Selby Arthur Foster
Ryan Wynott Joshua Walker

Crew

Cynthia Mort

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