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"There&amp;#x27;s a lot of new-TV excitement this time of year, and I bask in it like a three-year-old in a McDonald&amp;#x27;s ballpit who&amp;#x27;s blissfully ignorant of bacteria. But even as I&amp;#x27;m getting all breathless over the HIMYM farewell-season trailer and Breaking Bad&amp;#x27;s color symbolism and Lizzy Caplan&amp;#x27;s hot new series, there&amp;#x27;s this quietly building news story that keeps grabbing my attention: the new show Ryan Murphy is staging over at HBO. It&amp;#x27;s called Open, and the first thing that makes it interesting, frankly, is how good-looking the cast is. How good-looking? In my version of how this blinding lineup came to be: Murphy shouted &amp;quot;Tens only! TENS ONLY!&amp;quot; in a casting meeting, then sat back, drumming his fingers, and waited until his associates came scurrying back in with Jennifer Jason Leigh, Wes Bentley, Michelle Monaghan, Scott Speedman, and Anna Torv (of Fringe!). The other thing that makes it interesting it is that seemingly no one can describe it for more than 10 words without mentioning sex. Like, sometimes they talk about the fact that it&amp;#x27;s about a single 40something lady and a coupla couples, but mostly we keep getting words like &amp;quot;provocative&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;exploration of sexuality&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;very frank in its depiction of sex&amp;quot; (that last one comes from Murphy himself, via TVLine). We all know Murphy has a deep, imaginative reservoir when it comes to portraying love and sex (the way I just put that sounded overly sexual, but I&amp;#x27;m not even trying to be). I&amp;#x27;m curious to see what he can do completely un-handcuffed by network/cable censors (OK, somehow this keeps turning into 50 Shades without me meaning it to). But you know what this&amp;amp;#8212;an HBO drama that intertwines several relationships, full of unfiltered bedroom stuff&amp;amp;#8212;totally reminds me of? Can you guess? Tell Me You Love Me. Does anybody else remember Tell Me You Love Me? I liked it, and feel like it was just on yesterday, but I guess it was six years ago at this point. Furthermore, did you remember that Adam Scott was in it? Because that, I have to say, I totally forgot. I couldn&amp;#x27;t find a scene of him in the show that wasn&amp;#x27;t really NSFW, but if you are inclined to relive the magic/nowhere near people who affect your employment status, you can find the clips here. I know&amp;amp;#8212;you probably need a minute now. But first, tell me: Did you watch Tell Me You Love Me? And what&amp;#x27;s your gut reaction to Ryan Murphy&amp;#x27;s latest? Photo: IMDB, ABC, FOX, HBO"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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