TV Sex Drama Getting Slightly Less Boring

We were tempted to write off HBO's pseudo-hit "Tell Me You Love Me" once we discovered the show's familiar pattern of 55 minutes of dull people talking about their dull sex lives, interrupted by brief interludes of certain combinations of those people having robotic and passionless R-rated sex. Yet, for some reason we keep finding ourselves drawn back, perhaps in the vague hope that all that media hype will some day pay off and give all the cultural handwringers something to really worry about. Don't worry, the pattern hasn't changed, but this week we were at least treated to some reverse cowgirl and ... do our eyes deceive us or is that an actual ballsack? Hey, you can't do that on basic cable!

· "Too much TV sex makes you blind" (timesoline.co.uk)
· "Tell Me You Love Me" (hbo.com)

Previously: Mainstream Sex Watch: "Tell Me You Love" This?