He really can't, though. Paul is still married to Joy, who is still alive, regardless of the knowledge that Joy was going to leave him.

There was a power play at the very beginning, which Bill played, and basically got shot down. He fired her before she could answer his proposition, but she was going to say no. Once he rehired her, he didn't bring it up until she did.

Both of them were being over-the-top ridiculous in that scene because, of course, what they were really arguing over was Virginia. In my view, both of them know that they aren't going to create a love potion that will induce a person to be attracted to another against his or her will. And both of them know that if…

I think she is, as the review says, rewriting history. In talking about as like an amoebae in a petri dish and especially as a negotiation, she's denying her own agency in the whole deal. She's the one who initiated the sexual contact with Bill (and in season 2, she's the one who re-established the affair), and it's…

Here's the thing, not everyone tastes are the same. Furthermore, there is something both refreshing - and attractive - in seeing both men and women as they generally actually look.

The core of this show is Bill Masters and Virginia Johnson, and whenever the show returns especially to understanding Bill, they produce great episodes. I thought that this was really good, in part because we're revisiting what makes Bill tick while also getting a better understanding of why Virginia is the way she…

You're a man, aren't you?

I am not sure where this misconception is coming from that Masters of Sex is meant to be fun. It's never been a "fun show" because, in reality, sex itself is usually fraught with a lot of difficult emotions. Even in the first season, the show wasn't "fun," IMO. (Which is fine by me - I don't watch a show like MoS for…

I can understand the argument that they gave up on Libby, though I am not sure I ultimately agree with it. What I think that they have done, which has probably been a disservice to her character, is throw the story lines at her that they can't at either Bill or Gini because their stories are better known.

Yes, agreed. I think they are obviously setting up for Virginia to have a relationship with Dan Logan, but the whole point of the episode is that she is overwhelmed. Yes, we know that Gini can disassociate love from sex and all that, but we also know that she recognizes she's already in some sort of complicated…

I am going to disagree with this, in that I don't at all agree that Libby is not a fully-formed character and one that we don't care about. Personally, I think Libby is very much a fully-formed character, but she's not a force of will like Bill nor is she as willing to flout convention as Virginia. She is someone who…

Personally, I thought that this was a good episode, as much about how hard it is for people to connect outside of the bedroom as they do inside. Can't agree with the reviewer at all.

I'd like to think that but I am not sure there is any evidence of that. That's not to say that Virginia would blame Tessa but there isn't much evidence of Virginia being some sort of Mama Bear, either.

It's hard to ignore if you're looking for it. Personally, I didn't suspect that is where they were going with it during the episode and I don't see any evidence of it now.

That line caught my ear, too, but I think it was ambiguous enough to go either way. I thought Virginia's plan was always a little far-fetched, and maybe Bill expressed a similar thought to her more forcefully, since he started to say something like that during the Season 2 finale. He isn't really the reason why she…

Yep, I think we're saying much the same thing - it isn't the commodification of sex that is the innovation in the Masters & Johnson era, it is the ability to put it front and center in the culture, and to sell it at a mass level.

As far as we, the viewers, know, Libby has never told Bill that it was Virginia that told her. Not sure it would matter much at this point, especially because - as far as we know - Bill has never told Virginia that he spiked the CBS story. They all have kept secrets from each other.

I'd say there is no perhaps about it. Michael Sheen is also an attractive man, even though Bill Masters is dour and un-fun.

Sex has always been a commodity, though. That's why prostitution is called the world's oldest profession.

There is a little difference between Masters and Johnson associating with Playboy, which I believe was already well-known by 1966 vs. Bill Masters hiring a respected doctor about whom there are rumors around St. Louis that he might be gay. Bill didn't want to unnecessarily jeopardize the success of the book by…