TV series

Sometimes Love is a Lie

1998 · 1 season

A quiet, emotionally heavy medical melodrama about a marriage quietly falling apart, watched with a knot in your stomach.

Overview: A female surgeon desperately wants to have children but is unable to. Her pediatrician husband, meanwhile, threatens divorce in frustration. Complicating matters is the fact that his own step-brother has feelings for his wife. An operation of deceit and jealousy results in an unlikely happy ending
How it feels: Melancholic, tense and earnest. Measured and needs your attention.
About: Parenthood, betrayal, love, obsession
Content: Mild gore and sexual content. No violence or swearing.
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Tone: melancholicstrength 3 of 3
tensestrength 2 of 3
earneststrength 1 of 3
Pacing: measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: parenthood
betrayal
love
obsession
family
Places: hospital
home
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: serialised
Content intensity: Gore mild
Language none
Violence none
Sex mild