TV Update:

Tell Me You Love Me (HBO's new head-turner) could be so much better.  I really feel like the overt and "shocking" sexuality is only a distraction from a mostly meaningless, aimless, and superficial television show.  I understand that the goal is to show us the "truth" of how couples interact in the 21st century, but please, I don't need to see graphic awkward and messy sex to identify with characters on the screen.  Meanwhile, Showtime is producing some wonderful stuff on Monday nights with Weeds and a new show, Californication, starring David Duchovny as a struggling writer/nymphomaniac (but not in a gross way) living in Los Angeles.  It's the same Los Angeles that is presented on Entourage (HBO's biggest recent success, in my opinion) -- a city just shimmering with money and casual sex -- but Californication makes it seem so much more tiresome, so much heavier, than the world that Vince and his gang gallavant through on HBO's lighter, more comfortable version of the city's seemingly endless possibilities, and I love it for that reason, as well as the fact that the characters actually seem like they have places to go in terms of development.  Also, I've said it before and I'll say it again: Watch Mad Men.  It's brilliant.  And when does the next season of Project Runway start again, because I am soooo ready for it... Especially since Tim Gunn's new fashion advice show, Tim Gunn's Guide to Style or whatever the poor thing is called, is so dreadful, and Top Chef is almost over.