Masters of Sex

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