thereseviolet Masters of Sex is Entertaining and a enjoyable show. Every actor and actress except one was captivating and did an excellent job. Which leads me to my next point....... The downfall is: every scene with Virginia Johnson-Lizzy Caplan was very boring, very monotone. I couldn't pay attention no matter how hard I tried to her scenes. They where so bland and boring, she lost me after 5 seconds of talking.There is no start quality or entertainment there.Every scene was her just rambling on and on with no emotion or change of tone in her voice at all, very very boring, enough to snooze on the spot. I forwarded it through many of her scenes Sorry I am just telling the truth. Caitlin FitzGerald would have did a much better job in that role, she is very captivating, entertaining and a wonderful actress. That was the biggest downfall for me about this show. Due to that ii wouldn't be able to rewatch it like I would Mad Men or Boardwalk Empire.Due to what is mentioned above I had to rate it at a 4 otherwise I would have rated it at a 8, its just too many scenes are bland, as she plays one of the main characters, which is sad, the right actress in that role would have made this series a smash hit!

Carson Penhall Though it tries your patience at times, this series is still worth a viewing. A fascinating character study that finds new ways to deal with sex, longing, jealousies, and all the subtleties of love. Michael Sheen and Lizzy Caplan are riveting. Dealing with sex from such a clinical perspective is like a new toy for the writers, and they've found places to bring these characters I have never seen before. Nuanced and seductive, it captures details of the era seldom seen on television. For someone born thirty years after the era, it is the closest thing to being there, at first portraying the era as a more innocent time, then gently plumbing the depths of the characters to show that all is not what it seems. This is not the Wonder Years. Highly recommended.

zoocar I enjoyed the first season and Lizzy Caplan still remains captive while I find myself fast forwarding through much of the second season. On par with the first season in many ways, I now find the characters so deeply preformatted that only when there is an unsuspecting turn do I take the time to really indulge my focus.Most of my dismay with the second season revolves around the now almost unwatchable Michael Sheen's character and how selfish, self-serving and downright creepy he has become. The fact that Lizzy Caplan's character is still capable of letting him to now increasing levels makes me want to barf. I don't see how I can continue to consider this entertainment. Best to pass this one by for all the other great drama available.

Raoul Pifkey III I don't see what can be found wrong with this series, which is why I gave it a 10. I have to admit when I really like a show, I do fall in love with it. As far as I can see, the acting is great, the writing is great, the characters are great, and the time period is very realistically portrayed. This is the 1950's. It is a very conservative America. Not as much in the political sense as in the cultural sense. This was before all hell broke loose in 1964-65. The Civil Rights Movement was taking place and gaining ground in the South, but this is white upper class America we are seeing. A white hospital with white doctors and white secretaries. Because that is the way it was then.Michael Sheen and Lizzy Caplan are terrific as Masters and Johnson. There is a dual consideration to their relationship. They do have a professional relationship as Virginia Johnson is Dr. Bill Masters' Research Assistant. She is a woman with talents. Instinct, ambition, innovative with ideas and very good with people. Dr. Masters is the most talented Doctor in this teaching hospital, but he is a reserved, even repressed man. The two are exact opposites, and yet compliment one another professionally. They also compliment one another personally, as they take part themselves in the Sex Studies that Dr. Masters has begun in his study.Lizzy Caplan is fabulous as she is sexy, intelligent, and complex. She is an ambitious woman, like a supremely interested and involved student, and is persistent in her goal of uncovering truths for the study and keeping the study and the office working and intact. She is unafraid, and knows she wants more out of her life. She has had a somewhat shady, unsteady life up until, apparently, taking this job, which changes her life. Lizzy Caplan has been said to have a "quirky sexiness" and that she has. She is also a terrific and "different" actress.Michael Sheen as Dr. Bill Masters is also a driven person. Restrained personally, but unafraid to be a revolutionary, and even an outcast, in his prime love affair, the scientific study of human sexuality. BUT he also has a personal side that is calculating in getting what he wants, when he knows what he wants. In Season One, he does discover what he wants, both personally and professionally. I will say that without giving too much away.So once again, Cable TV has trumped Network TV in originality, acting talent, subject matter, and writing. Of course Cable has the freedom to be more creative.Perhaps this is what draws so many movie actors to the small screen The writers need not worry about language and are not so compelled to limit nudity to, uhhhh, the 1950's? Where Network TV seems to be stuck.So, check out this series. The only competition to the pay channels are AMC, and the BBC, and recently, Netflix. And there will be more. Listen, networks, enough writing to the lowest common denominator. I know you are trying, Network TV, but you are still falling way short. Cable TV and others are getting the better actors, and the better writers! Masters of Sex is yet another example! I can't wait for Season Two!!