Masters of Sex -- The Best Show Nobody is Watching?
Masters of Sex -- The Best Show Nobody is Watching?
#1Masters of Sex -- The Best Show Nobody is Watching?
Posted: 12/12/13 at 4:04am
I know there was a thread about this show when it premiered, but I'm surprised at how little talk this show gets here, or on other forums.
I was on the fence, until about half way through, but it's become my favorite show of the year. I'm not surprised that it has courted some strong movie directors and writers (I don't think much of Michael Cunningham's screenplay work, as much as I love him as a novelist, but I appreciated the script he did, barring from one embarrassing scene.) The last episode was amazing, I thought in how it dealt with so many characters and attitudes at once.
i wonder if some viewers were put off by the fact that the early episodes were so sexual (but in an actually tame way--and actually that bothers me about the show. It has a teasing title sequence, but has never been very sexually graphic, and annoyingly for a cable show written mostly by women--at least from my gay POV--has shied away from showing male nudity even cutting away before a gay male sex scene.) It still can be too obvious in its writing, but I really think it's become an amazing show.
Brian07663NJ
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/21/06
#2Masters of Sex -- The Best Show Nobody is Watching?
Posted: 12/12/13 at 8:49am
Unfortunately I have never seen it but I am not surprised by the cut away before the nudity.
I've found the 10pm cable show called "Naked and Afraid" to be laughable because even in what they call "Naked and Afraid Uncensored" the scenes are always blurred!
#2Masters of Sex -- The Best Show Nobody is Watching?
Posted: 12/12/13 at 9:17amEric, I just read somewhere that last week's Masters of Sex had huge ratings. I think more and more people are discovering this great show. It's one of my favorites!
blueroses
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/18/04
#3Masters of Sex -- The Best Show Nobody is Watching?
Posted: 12/12/13 at 9:44amWatching it! Loving it.
Wynbish
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/27/12
#4Masters of Sex -- The Best Show Nobody is Watching?
Posted: 12/12/13 at 9:46am
The show and Michael Sheen were just nominated for a Golden Globe.
I loved the first couple of episodes of the show but have not gotten around to watching my recordings of the rest. I will, though, but probably not until January.
#5Masters of Sex -- The Best Show Nobody is Watching?
Posted: 12/12/13 at 2:40pm
I'm glad others are watching and enjoying--and I had no idea about the GGs, but am pleased (though I would have given Lizzy a nomination as well, but the GGs tend to like actors who have won awards before...)
I do think the show has become stronger since it has focused less on the (again mainly female) nudity, so it's not that I necessarily think they should show more naked bits, but I do find it confusing that they aren't--if only for a ratings grab. In the UK they screen (granted late at night) gratuitous specials that claim to be educational about the lives of male strippers or sex advice that happily show everything but fully erect cocks--and that's not even basic cable.
TheatreDiva90016
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/10/04
#6Masters of Sex -- The Best Show Nobody is Watching?
Posted: 12/12/13 at 2:46pm
I see naked bits in every episode.
Including full frontal from Allison Janney...
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-whatever2
#7Masters of Sex -- The Best Show Nobody is Watching?
Posted: 12/12/13 at 2:47pmWell not in the last two episodes... Butyeah there's been (brief) full frontal female, a lot of breasts, and a few, early on, male backsides. I WANT MORE!
#8Masters of Sex -- The Best Show Nobody is Watching?
Posted: 12/12/13 at 4:12pmI'm watching! I think it's a great show. I think there is far more graphic sex scenes in Boardwalk Empire and Game of Thrones. Have you seen what those poor actors have to do on those shows? Yikes! (but I love both of those shows too!)
Sutton Ross
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/20/13
#9Masters of Sex -- The Best Show Nobody is Watching?
Posted: 12/12/13 at 4:19pmI think it's great, and with the Golden Globe nominations today, I'm sure more people will be watching. Lizzy Caplan is absolutely fantastic!
TheatreDiva90016
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/10/04
#10Masters of Sex -- The Best Show Nobody is Watching?
Posted: 12/12/13 at 4:22pm
The cast isn't too old for you?
They ARE mature adults.
"TheatreDiva90016 - another good reason to frequent these boards less."<<>>
“I hesitate to give this line of discussion the validation it so desperately craves by perpetuating it, but the light from logic is getting further and further away with your every successive post.” <<>>
-whatever2
wonkit
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/30/08
#11Masters of Sex -- The Best Show Nobody is Watching?
Posted: 12/12/13 at 6:29pmLizzy Caplan does deserve a lot of recognition for her part in this show. She is a complex female character, and it is because her part is so well written and acted that the show works. Happy to hear the Globes gave it some attention.
#12Masters of Sex -- The Best Show Nobody is Watching?
Posted: 12/12/13 at 7:24pmJulianne Nicholson, an actress I have always liked, is equally brilliant. As is Caitlin Fitzgerald as Libby.
#13Masters of Sex -- The Best Show Nobody is Watching?
Posted: 12/12/13 at 7:27pmDiva, to whom are you referring to?
WiCkEDrOcKS
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/13/04
#15Masters of Sex -- The Best Show Nobody is Watching?
Posted: 12/12/13 at 8:40pmI'm watching and I love it!
TheatreDiva90016
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/10/04
#16Masters of Sex -- The Best Show Nobody is Watching?
Posted: 12/12/13 at 8:46pm
"Diva, to whom are you referring to?"
Rutton Soss...
"TheatreDiva90016 - another good reason to frequent these boards less."<<>>
“I hesitate to give this line of discussion the validation it so desperately craves by perpetuating it, but the light from logic is getting further and further away with your every successive post.” <<>>
-whatever2
#17Masters of Sex -- The Best Show Nobody is Watching?
Posted: 12/13/13 at 7:32amMuch to my amazement, I agree whole-heartedly with Eric. We watch MASTERS religiously at my house and always on the first night, just as we do with DOWNTON ABBEY.
#18Masters of Sex -- The Best Show Nobody is Watching?
Posted: 12/13/13 at 5:21pmI am *shocked* that you would agree with me. Maybe I should make a Kiss of the Spiderwoman post...
#19Masters of Sex -- The Best Show Nobody is Watching?
Posted: 12/13/13 at 6:33pm
Nah, Logan2 and I took that argument to PMs. We're arguing our way through the entire Kander and Ebb canon.
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Back to MOS: I have very little patience for shows about spies or the mob. So we watch THE NEWSROOM and MOS even though we missed THE SOPRANOS and HOMELAND.
Updated On: 12/13/13 at 06:33 PM
wonkit
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/30/08
#20Masters of Sex -- The Best Show Nobody is Watching?
Posted: 12/15/13 at 11:25pmAmazing finale tonight. Lizzie Caplan is wonderful.
Stage Door Sally
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/4/09
#21Masters of Sex -- The Best Show Nobody is Watching?
Posted: 12/16/13 at 7:52amThe season finale was terrific. Look forward to the next round.
wonkit
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/30/08
#22Masters of Sex -- The Best Show Nobody is Watching?
Posted: 12/16/13 at 5:17pmI am reading the bio of Masters, and I actually love what they are "modifying" from the strictly biographical. Much more interesting with these minor adjustments to "the truth" (whatever that means).
Huss417
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#23Masters of Sex -- The Best Show Nobody is Watching?
Posted: 12/16/13 at 5:29pmI have them all recorded and at some point just going to do a big binge.
"I hope your Fanny is bigger than my Peter."
Mary Martin to Ezio Pinza opening night of Fanny.
Gothampc
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#24Masters of Sex -- The Best Show Nobody is Watching?
Posted: 12/16/13 at 5:32pm
"Including full frontal from Allison Janney..."
I think I just lost my lunch.
If anyone ever tells you that you put too much Parmesan cheese on your pasta, stop talking to them. You don't need that kind of negativity in your life.
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