Masters of Sex's second season found Masters and Johnson exploring sexual dysfunction (including Bill's), Libby Masters getting involved with St. Louis' racial politics, and the show entering the Kennedy era. In the final scene of the season, against the backdrop of the JFK's inauguration, Masters (Michael Sheen) and Johnson (Lizzy Caplan) are resolutely moving forward with their work, but not without having endured a series of personal and professional failures of a sort. The CBS feature about them made sex an implication rather than a focus, presenting it as squeaky clean rather than scientifically rigorous. When Bill concocted a...
- 9/29/2014
- by Esther Zuckerman
- EW - Inside TV
“Masters of Sex” wrapped up an alternately excellent and frustrating second season tonight. I reviewed the finale here , and I had a long talk with “Masters” creator Michelle Ashford about the various big decisions of season 2, including the time jump, fictionalizing more aspects of the Masters and Johnson story and… Cal-o-Metric? All that coming up just as soon as I’m a doctor who also went to medical school… When you and I spoke briefly in the summer during the TCA field trip to your set, you said you had not originally expected going into writing the season to return so close to when season 1 ended. Why did you ultimately decide to do that? Michelle Ashford: I used the first season as kind of a year. It was setting the series up and so I thought, “Let’s take a year and see what these people are all about.
- 9/29/2014
- by Alan Sepinwall
- Hitfix
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