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Critic Reviews
TV Guide MagazineJul 11, 2014
Jul 11, 2014
Season 2 Review:
With Masters and Johnson occupying a space in between love, work, and friendship, the heart of the Masters feels like it is finally beating; the joy of the show is watching the two of them interact with each other, and Lizzy Caplan and Michael Sheen have thrown themselves wholeheartedly into their roles. Ashford and her team have also become more confident with pacing and plotting.
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Sep 27, 2013
Season 1 Review:
This is adult entertainment in the very best possible sense. [7 Oct 2013, p.47]
Sep 27, 2013
Season 1 Review:
Masters of Sex, a biographical drama about sex researchers William Masters (Michael Sheen) and Virginia Johnson (Lizzy Caplan) that makes science sexy.... Sheen and Caplan are beautifully mismatched as the central figures in a story adapted from Thomas Maier's 2009 biography.
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Sep 13, 2013
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Jul 8, 2015
Season 3 Review:
When Masters stops himself from punching Johnny, Sheen--who has the least showy role here--has his finest moment. The exquisite Caplan, on the other hand, is given many chances to shine, and doesn’t let any of these moments slip away.... Season 3 promises to be the show’s wildest year yet.
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Sep 24, 2013
Season 1 Review:
While Masters of Sex might not be a great show as yet, viewed strictly in terms of giving consumers something worth paying for--or at least an experience they couldn’t receive in quite the same way in many other places--it’s the equivalent of a master class in pay-TV development.
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Sep 6, 2016
Season 4 Review:
Masters of Sex excels when Virginia Johnson and William Masters are together, so it's to the season 4 premiere's detriment that they share only a few mostly uneventful minutes on screen. Still, the duo deliver nuanced performances. [9 Sep 2016, p.55]
Jul 13, 2015
Season 3 Review:
The series feels reinvigorated [with the time jump to 1966]. What remains problematic--and there’s no real fix for it--is that viewers have had 24 episodes of Masters and Johnson’s evolving relationship and the latter part of that was a lot of bickering and problems that only highlighted the fact that Masters has never been very likable.
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Jul 10, 2015
Season 3 Review:
Entire scenes from the premiere look like an ABC Family series.... From the first two episodes of the new season, it seems as if finding a balance between career and family, especially for the women in this show, might emerge as a thread. That would put this season in some oft-mined territory. And, of course, just by moving into the ’60s it’s already eligible for a fatigue warning.
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Sep 27, 2013
Jul 13, 2015
Season 3 Review:
Though the series continues to be handsomely lensed and sports perceptive, complex performances from Sheen and Caplan, the writers hesitate to take chances outside of this established dichotomy between the reserved visual style and the frank, open discussions about sex.
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Sep 12, 2016
Season 4 Review:
Watching Masters plod around in despair, while Johnson rejects his attentions, doesn't feel suspenseful, since we know at some point these two are going to tie the knot. By this point, it's hard to care about their relationship, or the fate of their sex-research clinic.
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