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Do you sometimes wish you were in a crappy, sexless marriage, just so you could go to couples therapy and squirm and groan and lie about your feelings? Well, then HBO has the show for you! Its brand-new one-hour drama "Tell Me You Love Me" (premieres at 9 p.m. EDT on Sunday, Sept. 9) brings you all of the uncomfortable silences and awkward embraces of the modern, failing marriage! If that doesn't sound like a good time, you've at least got to tune in for the first episode of this tedious series so you can see with your own eyes what some critics consider "groundbreaking" and "important." Oh, and you also won't want to miss those explicit sex scenes everyone has been buzzing about since mid-July. You probably thought you'd never see naked testicles or a real, live hand job on TV. But remember, it's not TV, it's HBO! (And based on this show, we're all hoping it'll go back to being TV real quick-like.)

-- H.H.

Also…

The sixth season of "Curb Your Enthusiasm" premieres at 10 p.m. EDT Sunday, Sept. 9, on HBO. Afterward, James Gandolfini interviews wounded American soldiers in "Alive Day Memories: Home From Iraq" (10:30 p.m. EDT Sunday on HBO), a documentary that examines the physical and emotional impact of the Iraq war on the injured returning home.

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