Season 3 – Masters of Sex

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Dom I only watched the recaps for the various episodes and while it did feel better than season 2's plotlines, the show still crashes into the treetops in its attempt to fly into the air. Oh yeah, the girl who's had sex with everyone in season 1 is still having sex with everyone in season 3. The nerdy kid who has issues with self-esteem in season 1, still has self-esteem issues in season 3, even though it seemed kind of resolved at the end of season 1. A comedy of tragic errors. Also, the show kind of tries to do a Boyhood-style sideplot with the parents' interaction with the kids but comes off as seriously contrived. Why did the screenwriters made Sheen such an asshole to his kid? I don't know. Rated 1.5/5 Stars •  Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 08/25/23 Full Review the s For the first 2 seasons I felt like there was a lot of potential for this series: a tale that is at least partially based in history (albeit fictionalized/romanticized history) but noticed it was starting to dissolve into your very average and mediocre soap opera. Honestly, if you've ever watched soap operas that's exactly the same formula being used here...and that's the basis of lowest common denominator content. Which is what this season is. A mediocre soap opera, high romantic drama with no real substance. Which is a shame because the caliber of acting is incredible, it's just unfortunately wasted. It's also an unfortunate legacy for Virginia Johnson...in this version of history she is relegated to a careless and unconcerned mother who has slept her way through St. Louis and has a different sexual partner in every other episode while her kids are passed around like footballs to whoever is closest. The strangest part: during last season she had a baby and you literally don't see the baby after that until one episode where her parents arrive to take care of the baby. Otherwise you don't see a baby sitter or nanny, you see Johnson coming and going at all hours of the night without a single mention of the baby. The middle child (daughter) is a teen left to fend for herself and navigate those years without any real guidance. It's sad...it really is. So the soap opera has a feeling of sadness attached to it in how those around Masters and Johnson ignore and disregard everyone in their lives except those they're having sex with. And that is tragic on some level. The fact that Johnson has so many sex partners is neither here nor there. It's the chaos and damage she creates as a result of going from partner to partner, seeking some kind of approval and she ignores her children and everyone else in her life to such tragic results. So aside from an overly dramatic soap opera with a tragic/depressing air to it, there simply isn't much here of substance unfortunately. Rated 1.5/5 Stars •  Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 03/30/23 Full Review Audience Member One of the best series on! Probably still to explicit for the USA maybe thats why it's cancelled! Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/09/23 Full Review Audience Member While the cinematographic elements such as characters and decor are rich, the series always leaves me with a sense of emptiness as if something was drained from me. After I'd watch it i'd get an actual physical feeling of discomfort from the number of cringy moments combined with the idea put forward all through the series that sex is a product, that people should consume as much as they can and if there's a malfunction the mechanics (Masters and johnson) will fix it, a despairingly materialistic world-view. Add to this the fact that the series paints an ideal feminist world where men are needy, egotistical, sexually disfunctional apes and women are independant yet perpetually unsatisfied, cold-hearted saviors and you have the recipe for a biased series promulgating unhapiness for everyone as the journalist said "Where is the love?"! Rated 0.5/5 Stars •  Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 01/09/23 Full Review Audience Member FINALLY, Season 3 - it got interesting!!!! YAyyyy - MUCH better writing and character development! Thank God - it paid off slugging thru Season 1 and 2 :) Rated 4.5/5 Stars •  Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 01/09/23 Full Review Audience Member Season 3 Finale was easily one of the best written, best acted episode of the entire season. I did not expect the turn of events and the cliff hanger was truly breathtaking. This series rivals the best HBO mini-series like "True Blood", etc. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/09/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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