Masters of Sex

Anyone else watching this? It's exceptional.

thought it was good but not amazing after the 1st episode. is it worth sticking with? seemed like they had crammed in half a season's worth of plotlines into that 1 hour.

no it's gotten increasingly great.

this is very good.

Watched the first episode which I enjoyed well enough. Looks like I should catch up.

Are they doing a second season or is it just a one-off thing?

i only know about masters and johnson from the mary roach book "bonk" that i listened to on audiobook on a very long drive. i learned a lot, but i'm not sure i want to see a dramatization of their work/life.
is it drama heavy? the reviews i've seen seem to play up the personal drama and that's not really very interesting to me, i don't think?

this is good, some laffs, plenty of ribaldry, lots of negotiating-authority moments that are oddly fresh given mad men's 50s looming over all (might be because v. johnson is set up as so obviously independent and modern from the get-go), lots of women wearing smart 50s frocks (and apparently nothing else, for all the nudity in the first handful of episodes i can barely remember seeing underwear), a bit of touching enthusiasm for SCIENTIFIC INQUIRY, good acting from sheen w/ a fairly unsympathetic creep as a role, beau bridges being beau bridges, a little heartbreaking abjection when they start interviewing people about their sex lives

kind of over-into the 'robot learns to love' theme or wherever they're gonna end up taking it but i guess they do have (might have) the authority of facts going for them for once

also obviously l. caplan is a sensual goddess

ack this is already 6 episodes in to s2

I'm liking it, seems to be one of the better shows going. But I sense it isn't all that popular so I'm worried it will be cancelled before it finishes but I doubt it's an expensive show.

Unlike the other shows set several decades ago, this one doesn't seem to want the visual styles of the past to be a selling point.

turns out ppl wore pants and shirts back then too

usually

didn't even realize season 2 had started. must be watching less TV or something, or has the media totally ignored it this season?

well aside from the salacious angle and a bit abt the leads' performances, i don't think it got a lot of press before. probably a bad time, mid-summer, not a lot of attention on tv anyway.

it got the cover of Entertainment Weekly recent, whatever that's worth. i do wish it had a higher profile, but even the biggest Showtime series seem to take a while to catch on, so as long as it stays on the air and gets a little Emmy love i think it's doing well enough.

finally caught up with this. bit of a jarring jump a few years into the future but they were going to have to advance at some point.

Already been renewed for S3 for anyone who was concerned.

Last few episodes were really good

Can I start with season two?

bad idea imho

The end of the most recent episode was really intriguing.

Was thinking that the lesbian subplot was a weak point but I'll deserve judgement for now.

The young maid is so beautiful.

lesbian subplot with bettie or with with virginia and dr. lepaul?

you can't start with season 2, you need to watch season 1

We started this a while ago and are a few eps in. It's OK and the cast is good, but at least early on it's struggling to make the characters more than surface interesting, though I understand it improves.

The lesbian thing with Sarah Silverman.

started in on Season 1 - not bad, although the speechifying got to be a bit much. sex scenes are suitably lolzy

I don't think we made it through the first season yet. Just seemed a little too ... TV-y. Like, it was focus group designed to fit several boxes. Retro fashion factor? Check. Titillation factor? Check. Oh my God, look at the way people used to act factor? Check. And so on. Surely it must get better than this, but I suspect I need to see all of season one before, characters/themes established, it can move on and develop.

based on one episode (lol), agreed on all that

love Lizzy Caplan but damn she got super-skinny/scrawny. bah Hollywood.

I never noticed any weight difference. Never realised that was her in Hot Tub Time Machine.

I don't think I saw the earliest episodes but I don't think the retro thing is important in this at all (I probably said that above). I think it's mainly worthwhile for the two lead actors.

three episodes in this is pretty good. The most objectionable thing I reacted to was the totally fake and unconvincing 50s comic in episode 2 (surely they could have used an ACTUAL period-specific comic is that really that hard).

All the male characters are totally loathsome w pretty much zero redeeming qualities, which is kind of depressing.

The second season turned out to be a bit of a mess.

some more episodes in and feel like this is never going to rise above simply okay. the will they/won't they dynamic in place between Masters and Johnson is p stupid (and we already know they will anyway) and not a particular plot trope I can invest any interest in. wish Dr. Stalky McSlapsalot would get run over by a train. Actually wish all the male characters would die horribly for the most part. The nuts and bolts of the sex research is probably the most interesting, which doesn't speak well of how all the main characters are written.

I can't even really make myself watch the last episode of season 2, kind of don't care?

I feel like they should do a short season 3 and just wrap this up.

i thought this season was pretty good, ended up with a good number of interesting subplots that sometimes were better than the main story. the way they kinda shoehorned Betty into the main cast felt contrived but she's a great character, glad they did it. only thing i disliked about the finale was the JFK dream sequence, which is the exact historical TV drama bullshit this show is usually good at avoiding.

two more eps in my queue and i really don't much care anymore.
this was a trainwreck of a season imo