I really didn't like the Langham one this one or have ever liked him (maybe with Margaret), but I liked all the Betty side stories this season mostly because Ashford is absolutely phenomenal. Despite liking it, I think the Betty ones could only be loosely tied to the overall themes. They could be tied in more…

Yeah, I remember all that, but whenever Libby and Gini interact it's always just Libby confessing all this stuff about Bill and Gini trying really hard to not reveal anything at all. I don't think that counts as really intimacy between them. What we saw with Gini and Lillian was much different.

Yeah, I absolutely agree. The only time it was really acknowledged was in one of the therapy sessions briefly. It appears that Lillian only lingers in the sense that Gini has no real intimacy with women or have any friends. It's a negative legacy almost. An absence. Will Lillian be her only friend? She said last week…

I knew the Flo/Langham scenes were going to be so bad, irrelevant, and rapey that I just fast forwarded and otherwise, found the episode pretty good. (Seriously, the show needs to just be able to let people go when they no longer organically fit into the story. That even means Libby who really does not deserve how…

I don't think it's inherently bad to have anti-hero, morally ambiguous, or even just plain evil queer characters. Cain was a great character (she wasn't plain evil, no matter what some might say). But when these characters are put into their wider societal, heterosexist context, the "depraved queer" trope is all we…

When I first watched BSG, I just watched it all while it aired or on DVD and the only extra thing I watched was "Razor" (which I did like). Maybe on this rewatching, I'll try to find the webisodes. I knew they existed when the show was first airing, but I was a little turned off by them because I felt SyFy was…

*SPOILERS BELOW*

Her hair in "Water" when she is playing cards with Gaius is divine. DIVINE.

To be fair, my comment was very long. I tend to always just vomit out a wall of text whenever I comment about BSG on here.

(*SPOILERS BELOW FROM LATER IN THE SERIES*):

On one level, Gini knows that Bill's focus on the "cure" without psychology is a grave misunderstanding of sexual dysfunction and she doesn't really have the power to contradict him that much or even stop him, so she's doing her best in an escalating situation. But her best is obviously not enough to help Barbara. It…

I think her naivety in that regard is so unrealistic. This season they have done thing to Libby's character that I have deeply, deeply disagreed with. In the first season, she was sheltered and a bit immature, but she wasn't silly. Now look at her…

I really liked this episode of Masters of Sex. I liked how both Bill and Gini are trying to fix their own problems through others (although, the people around them aren’t really letting them keep up those facades). This show is about (a lack of) emotional intimacy, but it’s also about denial. Straight up denial.…

And one other comment (which I am sure has been said before, but it needs reiterating): this show has no frakking idea how to portray or analyze race with any nuance or grace or even much empathy. Race is not just something you throw into the mix because you want to provide character development to white people and to…

The episode was disjointed, but I did like the episode's focus on psychology. It occurred to me that Bill is not interested in and doesn't put much stock in psychology because he doesn't want to think about himself and that is also why he dissuades Gini again from going back to school for psychology so he can better…

The excitement of "33" was definitely tempered, but I paid much more attention to big themes this time. I don't think I can binge watch it again (watched it while it aired and then I binged watched it right after the series ended), but watching an episode per week is worth it.

As for the 'ship, I really, really always hated what happened with Lee and Kara. I shipped Kara and Leoben…until…well, most of us know what happened there. Probably Bill and Laura the most. But I didn't 'ship them until Season 2 when I first watched. Thinking about this more, I probably ship Laura making difficult…

I am glad Sonia wrote about the double motivation stuff going on (the gods vs. free will) and the emphasis on reproduction (especially because of the enormity of the loss and the genocide) and I also liked her discussion of Dee's place on Galactica. On my first viewing of this episode after five years or so, all those…

Let's remember how he stopped her from going to college/med school because that would mean she could maybe conduct the research without him? He knows how to make sure she stays attached to him if she wants to continue to engage in science without credentials (which he prevented her from pursuing even though she is…

*SPOILERS ABOUND and CONTENT WARNING FOR DISCUSSION OF RAPE, SEXUALIZED VIOLENCE, AND MISOGYNY*