With Entourage out of the lineup I decided to give HBO’s new series, Tell Me You Love Me, a try.

Summary: closeups of overacting interspersed with gratuitous, needless, explicit adult content.

The sex scenes seem designed to offend and be in-your-face in their explicitness. I’m not impressed.

The acting hits you over the head. Not in a good way. In one scene the woman twists her lips, as would a 5 year old if you asked her to act, not once but twice to show her consternation. Perhaps it wouldn’t be as noticeable if there weren’t so many closeups.

I forget who said it, reacting to a man with a large nose and a prominent mustache: with a nose like that, I wouldn’t underline it. With actors like these, I wouldn’t close-up so much.

I’m going to be skipping Tell Me You Love Me; despite all the attempted shock, it turns out to contain very little of interest.