Goddamn, this show has some gut-wrenching emotional moments! After the first few episodes, it was already becoming clear that we weren’t dealing with a show that was only going to point out sexual absurdities and chronicle the scientific component of the sexual revolution. While both of those elements are certainly present in the overall makeup…
Season Ones can be fascinating to watch, because even the worst, low concept garbage can show glimpses of potential. Masters of Sex is hardly that, as there is a creative vision here that is almost a prerequisite for a show to get greenlit in the 21st century premium cable landscape. Even Hung had enough to…
Thus far, Masters of Sex has been a bit of an enigma for me. I may have period piece exhaustion, as I’m continually finding myself thinking that I’ve seen these characters before. Bill Masters as an emotionally underdeveloped scientist hopelessly devoted to his craft is particularly problematic, since that archetype has been ridden to death…
“Race to Space” Masters of Sex hasn’t settled in yet. The show is still in its infancy, so it still has loads of potential. It didn’t trip coming out of the blocks, but it isn’t breaking away from the pack either. Enough with the clichés, on with the show. The number one opportunity for this…
“Pilot” This past weekend, the scientific sexual revolution themed Masters of Sex debuted as Showtime’s next dip into the HBO-dominated premium cable arthouse ocean. The show, based in the notoriously repressive 1950s (as much as the American 50s are regaled by so many as an idyllic utopia, there are dozens, if not hundreds…