# Tell Me You Love Me (2007)

> A single HBO season follows three couples and the therapist who treats them, exposing the sexual and emotional fault lines of their relationships.

Canonical page: https://ember.film/tv/13989

## Facts

- Seasons: 1
- Episodes: 10
- Episode runtime: 60 min
- Status: Ended
- Genres: drama
- Created by: Cynthia Mort
- Network: HBO
- Cast: David Selby, Tim DeKay, Adam Scott, Ally Walker, Jane Alexander, Sonya Walger, Katharine Towne, Michelle Borth
- TMDB rating: 7.3/10
- IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0809497/

## Ember's analysis

- Pacing: measured
- Intensity: strong
- Complexity: layered
- Violence: none
- Tone: candid, intimate, raw, talky, melancholic, provocative

## What critics say

Audiences rated the single season positively, valuing its frank portrayal of intimacy and relationships among three couples and their shared therapist.

## Synopsis

Tell Me You Love Me (2007) is an American premium cable relationship drama series created by Cynthia Mort for HBO. Its single season of ten hour-long episodes is a limited series built around three couples and the therapist they share. Dr. May Foster (Jane Alexander) hears their confessions in the consulting room, and the sessions keep bleeding into the unstable marriages and private desires of her own household. Arthur Foster (David Selby) is her husband, and his own life grows as tangled as the lives of the people she counsels. David (Tim DeKay), Katie (Ally Walker), Palek (Adam Scott) and Carolyn (Sonya Walger) are among the couples whose intimacy problems unfold episode by episode, through arguments, secrets and sexual encounters that the series shows with unusual frankness. The engine of the show is the gap between what people say in therapy and what they do at home. Each episode feels like a conversation that keeps circling back to bodies, desire and betrayal. Set in contemporary Los Angeles among affluent professionals, the series carries a raw, talky, intimate register. Viewers who like In Treatment, Six Feet Under and the adult candor of Sex and the City will recognize its interest in the messy politics of love.

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