Masters of Sex Episode 2.11 Recap: One for the Money, Two for the Show
That we appear to be heading to a more conventional cliffhanger at season's end, is one more indication of how the show has struggled in its sophomore season.
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Masters of Sex Episode 2.8 Recap: Mirror, Mirror
In a week where the dominant news story has been about leaked nude photos of celebrities, some of them apparently underage, it actually feels a little counter-cultural to watch a show that acknowledges sex has the power to scar us as well as titillate us.
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Masters of Sex Episode 2.5 Recap: Giants
In Maier's work, that argument increasingly comes across as the way Masters sold the study to the public and made his work sound more respectable and altruistic than it perhaps always was. The show is starting to echo that. For all its heavy-handedness, I continue to appreciate that it doesn't idealize or rationalize the adultery.
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Masters of Sex Episode 2.4 Recap: Dirty Jobs
It is perhaps too early to write off the sophomore year as a disappointment, but it is no longer too early to call its unevenness a trend.
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Masters of Sex Episode 2.3 Recap: Fight
The don't-call-it-an-affair between Virginia Johnson and Bill Masters has been the one element of Masters of Sex that most blatantly deviates from Thomas Maier's biography of the same title.
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The Bible
"This program is an adaptation of Bible Stories that changed our world" suggests a rebuttal to those who question why such a program even justifies a place on our screens, whilst "It endeavors to stay true to the spirit of the book" seems like a defense against potential criticisms that it dares to meander from the original text.
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Church Hoppers
It's hard to combine reality television with church.