Touches You

One of my all time favorites.

There are better movies of two hours length. I loved the actress'performance.

Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.

I thoroughly enjoyed this show. The characters were interesting, though not unrealistically so. I love the fashion, and seeing it change over time. I love how the characters were 100% in the part. I never felt they were letting modern society slip through in their gestures or expressions, like many actors do.I learned something from Master of Sex and it wasn't anything about sex. I learned that people from their generation just did not give a crap about their children. It makes sense, as my parents are from that era, and my childhood was a mix of them hosting cocktail parties or them going out or on business trips and vacations without the kids. It's like they had no idea what being a parent meant, and even though Masters finally conquers his fear of showing affection towards his son, I think most parents then didn't have that same revelation.

The first season has a solid trajectory and the combination of characters, the circumstances and the recreations of 1950s are all intriguing with that added element of truth. Apparently. Sure, there are compromises to tell a story but even Primo Levi did that with his memoir of Auschwitz. The curious relationship of Masters and Johnson and their quest, her maverick confidence as much as anything, are quite attractive. Then into the second season it becomes obvious that truth and historical accuracy are being defined by what the producers believe will be sufficient. The fact that Sheen isn't bald, as was the real Masters, indicates that this is pick and choose biographical history. This manipulation of the audience might be acceptable with just Masters and Johnson, the real nature of their affair, what they said and the reason behind it, but it's a strain and disturbing when the other parties: Masters's wife in particular, are portrayed in a way for which Maier's biography does not source and there is no record. This is not about a hairstyle or a political affiliation, this is an event in a persons' life, which has been invented.The progress from historically sourced facts, with some enhancement to raise dramatic interest, is presented in the opening of the third season. At the close the producers make it clear that Masters and Johnson is presented for their important work, meanwhile the children as presented in the TV episode are fictional. The real Masters and Johnson had children and no doubt this was done to close any possible dispute. Even the most charitable of viewers realizes they have now been swindled. What won the trust – and in the days of Ed Sullivan, the thanks for coming into your home – is in reality just a disingenuous fraud. Yes, there are truthful parts but the overall arc, the element the dramatic pitch, the nature of the lives shown, is not related to the two real persons, nor to their families and associates.In its place is a reworking of a Douglas Sirk picture of the 1950s: the enterprising single woman finding her way in the world.It's a good story and in this version Lizzy Caplan is photogenic and convincing although she cleaves to the junior high school teacher way of talking, to impress upon her interlocutor the reason to her argument,in very evenly pronounced syllables much too often. Opposite her is a block of wood in a bow tie. Playing Bill Masters would be very hard and Sheen does something with this difficult material, although he lacks physical presence and command.Like Sirk's movies, this is middle-brow melodrama. It looks good, it's photographed well, the scripts were better in season one than later, but its connection to history and biography are only tenuous at best.

Once I understood that the actual storyline was not factual I could no longer overlook my nausea at the images of Mrs. Johnson's sexual interaction with the totally disgusting Dr. Masters. The whole thing from that point on began to seem pointless. His marriage in reality was, in fact, different from what was portrayed in the series. They had children . . . so what was the point? As fiction, this seemed simply silly meandering. I stopped after fast-forwarding through much of the second half of the season (1). Michael Sheen did too good a job of being a horridly little hypocrite and Lizzy Caplan too good a job of being a capable, smart woman for the coming together of the two to be anything but disgusting. E e e e w w w w . . . . i c k . . .

Michael Sheen and Lizzy Caplan star as pioneering human sexuality researchers William Masters and Virginia Johnson in a 1950s-set drama based on a book by Thomas Maier.I liked this show from the beginning. A lot had to do with the period it is set in - it's flawless and stylish. There is a very interesting plot which makes it insightful and it is acted out especially by Michael sheen which i'm sure got him an Emmy Nomination. It's not all about the functioning of the female Clitorous….. it delves on the problems of homosexuality and racism at this time. Season Two has some remarkable new characters and is a lot more steamy in the sex line and gets onto the subject of the male and female "inability" to perform - in serious taste. But all in all a good show which is a quality 1 hour episode and it never has you bored. And yes that is the biggest Dildo I have ever seen. It's made of Glass!!!!!!