Consider for a moment, as a doctor, what you would do. You have a baby here with XY chromosomes, ambiguous genitalia and hormone deficiencies. At this moment you have the opportunity to choose all the secondary sex characteristics of this individual. Do you choose to give the baby female characteristics because it…

Gini's intervention with Lillian was fortunate in several ways. Lillian is not in denial, but she is working through the illness, and the metastasis is causing problems in her brain. This is not just a problem for Lillian, it is a danger to her patients. I've been in this situation myself a time or two, as the…

Allow me to retort . . .

So does that make Wayne the Devil and Christine's baby the AntiChrist?

I've been watching Masters for the early shift and HBO on the second trip around.

Yeah, that seemed over the line. There would have been a lot of people who would have supported their rights to live as they wanted until they came into people's housed and defiled family photos. Now I can see a lot of them being killed.

I agree, this was the most accessible episode so far in terms of meaning, and yet to me it was one of the most depressing hours of television I have watched in a long time. I'm hanging in there, hoping the light will go on and I will see the error of my ways, but so far I am not enjoying this show too much.

I think if an instance of morning sex lacking in foreplay and a wife having sex when not really into it at that moment equals rape, then rape is part of every marriage that is sexually active.

I like both of these shows alot, but for very different reasons. MoS is the better of the two, IMHO, but Ray has some qualities that are more unique than the reviewer describes.

Go back and read the reviews for 'Masters of Sex' to see what we're getting into with Sonia.

I signed my Penny Dreadful season contract after the first 10 minutes.

I don't think it's sex per se, I think it's any situation where she lets down her guard and responds without inhibition. Sex with Dorian was probably the worst possible combination of circumstances for her continued sanity.

More writing, fewer interviews. Valor Margulis.

Deadwood is about the only show that is comparable in terms of the natural flow of dialogue, although Deadwood was far superior in that regard. I have heard too many modern terms ('private sector' in this weeks episode from the Pinkerton man, for example) sneak into the dialogue in Penny to compare it to Deadwood.

So basically the story is this:

My point is not that I want all the answers in the first hour. But at least give me one or two. This show almost literally did not answer any questions at all. Just as an example, when I watched the GoT pilot, I very quickly understood who the main characters were, how they got there (to some small extent) and what…

That was implied but not explicitly explained, like most everything else.

To answer your question, I enjoyed the show alot. I understand why some
people didn't, as those who are more enraptured with plots twists and
the completely unexpected would be disappointed by the retelling of
classic stories where many of the plot points are not in doubt, unlike
GoT, where everything is up for grabs…

I agree completely. The story seemed to have been originally written for 10 episodes, and a lot of stuff seems to have been packed into the last episode that could have been spread out over a couple of more. I could have watched a whole episode of Ethan toying with the Pinkertons before he killed them.

Actually, I thought it gave meaning to that very aloofness. We now understand why she keeps herself and the situation she is in under tight control. If she doesn't, it's back to the tileworks for her.