HBO’s new relationship drama Tell Me You Love Me premieres this weekend, and everything we’re reading about it is getting us pretty excited. Reviewers have spent a lot of time talking about how the show is talky, intricate, remarkably true-to-life, and slow to develop — sort of like The Wire for women — but it also apparently has tons of explicit sex to recapture our flagging attention. So why, exactly, are we psyched up for the show? We break it down, hard-core pie-chart style, below.
Tell Me You Love Me [Metacritic]