Masters of Sex -- The Best Show Nobody is Watching?- Page 2

[EricMontreal22]

Posted: 12/16/13 at 5:33pm

Wonkit, which changes do you specifically find more compelling? I like how the show has been written, but I haven't had to read a book about Masters and Johnson since I took a human sexuality course ten years back...

[Gothampc]

Posted: 12/16/13 at 5:35pm

"I have them all recorded and at some point just going to do a big binge."

This is the only way to watch a series. I do this with Mad Men. A full season in one sitting.

[Huss417]

Posted: 12/16/13 at 5:38pm

It is also how I do it with just about every series. I just need to try to not read anything about what is going on which can be difficult.

The scary thing is if I look at my external hard drive just for tv series there must be 30 or 40 including a lot of British shows. Just waiting for a huge blizzard. :)

[EricMontreal22]

Posted: 12/16/13 at 5:52pm

I have a bad tendency to never watch a series if I just save them all to watch together. I also find the fact that with serialized shows you can anticipate them each week helps me get through the less exciting parts of each week.

[wonkit]

Posted: 12/16/13 at 6:52pm

EricM - the book suggests that the early sexual "participation" was typical of the 1950's in situations where the man was powerful and the woman was not - Masters expected it and Johnson needed the job. They are letting Lizzie Caplan play Johnson was a little stronger and attractive so that there is a degree of attraction and not just what we would now call sexual harassment in the workplace. Also, they seem to have condensed a couple of serious attachments that Johnson had during these early years working with Masters into the single character of the young doctor. My sense from the book is that there was almost a kind of professional inevitability about their marriage rather than any sense of attachment. The book I am reading, by the way, is Thomas Maier's Masters of Sex.

[EricMontreal22]

Posted: 12/16/13 at 7:16pm

Right which is the basis of the show--and I should read. Interesting--and that makes a lot of sense, in both cases.

[wonkit]

Posted: 12/16/13 at 11:21pm

The farther I read into the book, the less I like either of them. I am not being unreasonably romantic but I would prefer to think that people who break up their marriage/potential marriages and stress out their friends and children were in the throes of some kind of attraction/passion, and not just looking out for book sales and capital gains. Think I will stick with the show's version instead! Michael Sheen manages to make a creepy/cold fish kind of guy into someone sympathetic.

[EricMontreal22]

Posted: 12/17/13 at 4:53am

No, I definitely feel the same way...

And here's the EP with some teasers for next season http://insidetv.ew.com/2013/12/16/masters-of-sex-season-1-finale-postmortem/

[henrikegerman]

Posted: 12/17/13 at 8:51am

This show really grew on me during this season. Lizzy Caplan is gorgeous, sexy, smart and wonderful. The supporting cast is outrageously good; my one prob at the beginning was that Masters is such an unlikeable f&*() - but that has become an integral part of the plan, and paid off.

[wonkit]

Posted: 12/17/13 at 11:50am

EricM - Thanks for that link. That has to be one of the most intelligent interviews about a tv series that I have ever read. No wonder the series itself is so subtle and effective!