Tell Me It's Not Really Like This!

... and what abour Curb????

What was wrong with Tell Me You Love Me? Haven't seen it but heard okay things about it.

Julie,

Loved how "Curb" pulled it together. Made a complete turn-around halfway through. The season should have opened with cock cake, then immediately gone into Larry and Cheryl's separation, then Larry dating, then the ending we got. They wasted too much time this year, and we got what felt like the series' three worst episodes right in a row at the beginning there.

Chris Vaughn,

Who said something was wrong with it? Like I said, I liked Tell Me You Love Me! It just painted one of the least appealing pictures of marriage and relationships I've seen.

Hands down favorite episode of Curb this season was the one with Steve Coogan, who was great, but even better was Super Dave Osborne's short, short cameo when he's telling Larry about a mutual acquaintance of theirs who has Alzheimers.

"He just sits around the house all day, drooling."

"That's terrible!"

"Awful. He yells at the cat for not voting."

"Oh, man!"

"Every time he farts he calls the fire department."

Pat,

I don't know anything about this HBO show...but I want to applaud your decision to never get married, or at least to never enter into a traditional marriage. I have met your girlfriend, and she is stunning and beautiful, and perhaps even someone with whom marriage might be exciting and fun. But I never bet that way. You can have lifelong love without marriage, but when you ARE married...after you take away the love, the companionship, the co-habitation.....what do you have left? You have the single lousiest contract ever devised of in Western Civilization. To me marriage is just another failed government program which, like Social Security, has outlived its usefulness...AS A GOVERNMENT PROGRAM. Those who marry for religious reasons have yet to statistically demonstrate to the world that their approach yields a higher success rate or even a superior happiness rate.

That's why sappy happy love stories suck. We know they are bullshit. Being in a marriage is like being trapped in a lousy contract....no wait...it ACTUALLY *IS* being trapped in a lousy contract.

To those who don't know me....guess which I am: (1) A financially stable twenty-something who bangs lots of hot chicks and has his shit together and doesn't want to screw it up.....(2) A financially stable middle-aged guy who has JUST NOW FINALLY recovered from a divorce which he experienced when he was a twenty-something, and actually PREFERS banging a lot of hot chicks to banging just one hot chick for the rest of his life....or (3) A dirt-poor empty and pathetic shell of a man who is living in a trailer-park because the ex-wife got the house while he got stuck with the mortgage payment; she got the kids while he got stuck paying for their college, which he wouldn't have been obligated by law to do had he remained married; he makes six figures a year, but still envies the lifestyle of the carefree McDonald's worker in the trailer next to his, because the burger jocky has more discretionary income than he does after paying off all of his marital-and-divorce-related monetary obligations.

Man, Pat....I feel BAD. I shouldn't bum you out like this. I take it all back, Dude. You can't have love...not TRUE love...without making the kind of commitment that only marriage can offer. If you aren't really risking everything...then you aren't REALLY loving AT ALL.

Yeah...go with that last statement.

I just dumped my girlfriend based on Rick's comment.

I made it to about 4 episodes of that show. Unless it there is some drastic changes later in the season, I gotta tell you, this show goes no where. Same fights, every week. There is less and less sex with the young couples and more and more with the old one. Never watch on a full stomach.

It's not like that for me, but I have to admit it is like that for many of my friends. I also have many friends who are happy like my husband and I are.

I think Dave and Katie are very realistic, as are Jane Alexander and her husbands relationship. Palek and Carolyn are both selfish dicks and I can't stand them. The young sex mongers? We've all been there haven't we?

I think it's a great series, but really disturbing. As for marriage, it's impossible to tell how it will turn out. If you want kids, find someone you really love to be with and who makes you laugh and go for it. Otherwise? Have fun while your young and hopefully you won't be a lonely old man in rocking chair!! LOL.

Rick, I would guess you are (4) the reason why it's a bad idea to take the empty bar stool by a middle-aged man drinking alone.

Girls all over America have just stopped whatever they were doing and applauded your decision to NOT get married. Ever.

Then they went back to whatever they were doing and mouthed a collective, "Who cares?"

Jackson,

Yes, that one was hilarious. I still think it's hard to beat the dog stomping for huge laughs.

Rick,

Have you considered becoming a marriage counselor?

Seriously, that was a very entertaining and honest rant. You'd like this Tell Me You Love Me show. I must say, the whole Kurt Russell/Goldie Hawn cohabitation thing makes a lot of sense to me. But then you don't have the ceremony/official commitment, etc. I think a lot of people in my generation are extremely hesitant to get married because all of our parents are splitting up. Scary. Thanks for sharing.

Ken,

Don't dump, just don't marry!

Flick,

There weren't drastic changes, but somehow it hypnotized me week after week. It just felt like eavesdropping, which is exciting even without the sex. It was very real, sometimes to a fault. And the old couple was a lot to look at, but sort of reassuring. I still want to be banging when I'm old and grey.

Nutsy,

Palek and Huge Boobs were beyond obnoxious, but once he turned into a selfish dick I got into their story a lot more. The old couple and the young couple -- who cares. Dave and Katie are the reason to watch.

Hahahahahahahaha,

(IF that is your real name).

Always good to get a heckle, it keeps me on my toes. I sort of thought my readership would pick up on the fact that I was joking around there, but oh well. Keep on being awesome.

Crycrycrycrycrycrycrycry.

Wow, Rick, that was depressing... But I get where you're coming from considering what you obviously went through. I'm sorry for you. As for me, I definitely wanna get married... if anyone will ever want me ;) About TMYLM: Watched the first four episodes and I really kind of liked it. I'll watch the last six ones when I have more time. But it's true, the show is pretty depressing if you think about it. But I guess, if you meet someone you really love, the last thing you'll think about is some show you once saw an HBO ;) Good luck with that anyway...