Did I miss Beth Littleford and Frank De Caro somehow? And, even though I know she never worked with Stewart, where was Lizz Winstead?

But will there be more butt stuff for Frederick?

So at least when they do air the military sketch later, you'll already have reviewed it and it'll be one less thing to do.

"Bill Masters’ fervent defense of his gay friend varies, unfortunately annoyingly,
from the real Masters’ eventual exploration of the subject."

Nothing that happened in the last twenty to thirty minutes between Ray and Ani made any kind of sense. I thought things were heading in the right direction when Ray refused to fuck Ani the first time, and the reversal at the end of the episode had me screaming at the TV, so that conversation was the least of it.

You have to admit that it beat the crap out of the philosophical bloviation that Ray and Frank got up to earlier in the season.

Well-put.

Another thing that made me giggle: thug muscle with Orthodox payot.

… [E]verybody’s looking for their chance to step up—to show they’re a good man, to find justice for people who might not be asking for it, or to show they’re worthy of a better role within the organization.

Well, the sex part was kind of off-task, but I guess dedication to the job calls for above and beyond sometimes. I'm sure Miguel didn't mind.much.

There's gonna be a lot of dickless corpses all over Southern Cal. That may be the only way the corrupt are going to see any kind of justice.

Maybe it’s just me, but holding your lover at gunpoint is a pretty shitty time to lay the “If you would’ve just been honest about who you are” routine on him.

It was "painful," yet he did it. And to add insult to injury, he's keeping Pizzolato on and bringing back Parker?

Or maybe it could be like season 1, wherein far too many issues that had been raised are jettisoned altogether, and the remaining threads have to be resolved very quickly and somewhat anti-climatically. So much of what will likely be dropped from the first six episodes could have been pruned away without much being…

There’s a lot of story to reel in over the next two episodes.

A possibility. The child is still fictional in either case, but I get the feeling that the abortion is the historical issue for this season, like civil rights was last season.

Or Showtime. Or anybody else.

For her to have the baby would be another fictional liberty, though, because "factual" Virginia only had two kids, and neither of them were Bill's.

And the show is taking great liberties with Libby, because there's nothing in historical record as to what she was doing during the course of her marriage to Masters. She didn't write a book, nor was she involved in the research for Masters of Sex (the book the show is based on, not the show itself). We don't know if…

"Howie" does have a sister, Sarah, who is equally non-fictional, but the thing here is that elements of Howie are fictional, at least in the fact that Masters III was born in 1952, five years before this show's continuity began. I haven't been able to find anything showing that Bill had more than two children with…