Doomed

Ok. So I watched the first episode of Tell Me You Love Me. Did you? My best girl friend did and she was not a fan. She said she was bored. What did I think? I enjoyed it. I didn't come away feeling moved or like I HAD to tell my friends about it. In fact, I waited awhile to write the blog. But, I will tune in again (after I come back from the road). I enjoyed it's perspective on how most monogamous relationships are screwed from the beginning to some extent. I REALLY liked the couple who hadn't had sex in a year. I thought their predicament was interesting and I couldn't help but feel miserable for either of them. Anyways, go view it for yourself and make up your mind.

I do have to say one thing about it though. I think it may be doomed. How much more can they do with this idea? The topic and the characters situations make for a good movie. But where else are they going to go with the problems these couples face.

One couple is in trouble because the male partner doesn't seem too confident in the idea of monogamy. Ok, well either they suck it up and get married or they break up. And if they do get married, they continue to battle with it, he gets over it, or he cheats.

The other couple can't get pregnant, and it is ruining their sex life and relationship. Ok, well either she does or doesn't get pregnant and they stay together or they don't last.

The third couple hasn't had sex in a year. But he loves her and doesn't appear to be unfaithful, but now she is now going to couples therapy alone over this. This is the most complex of the couples and has the most room for exploration...but is the least sexy plot line.

I know I am simplifying complex situations that couples face down to something way too simple. i know that the possibility in this show lies in the complex web of the emotions that one experiences when trying to spend a whole lifetime with a partner. But I don't know. I just don't see how it will make for a whole television series. I feel like its going to be pounding the same point in until its dead. How much of doomed monogamy can one really watch? I hope they prove to me that the answer is a lot, and prove me wrong. Maybe they will mix the characters lives up...Grey's Anatomy style.

Then again, maybe this just reflects my feelings on monogamous love at this point in my life. It's a situation in which I feel doomed and is going nowhere because I will get bored. The problems are scary and emotional at first, then they just feel cliche and tiring. Then I'll want to change the channel, literally and figuratively, in my life.

At least I can admit this to myself.

P.S. This show has LOTS of nudity, and on the shallow side of things...I see this as a bonus.