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.
Tag: Masters of Sex
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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 2.7 Recap: Asterion
If I could ask one question of series creator and writer Michelle Ashford it would be whether or not Masters of Sex has a specific end in mind.
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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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Masters of Sex Episode 2.2 Recap: Kyrie Eleison
Just after I finished praising the first season of Showtime's edgy drama, Masters of Sex, the second season has gotten off to a bumpy start.
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Masters of Sex — Three Ways the Showtime Series Surprised Me By Being Good
Showtime's serial adaptation of Thomas Maier's biography, Masters of Sex, launches its second season on July 13. Would it surprise you to hear that the series has supplanted Game of Thrones and The Good Wife as Sunday night's "we'll watch it live and DVR the rest" TV? That it did so certainly surprised me.