I think the US airing doesn't include the opening credits, but this may explain the cut sex scene from the week before last...
I was the person who said the series was airing in the US without the opening credit sequence British people were talking about. But I have since learned that I was incorrect, and I found out why I had a wrong impression. Before the series started in the US, Showtime sent the first six episodes of the first season out to the media as "screeners" for review purposes. The legally-dodgy streaming site I have been using to watch Masters Of Sex has apparently been uploading the episodes as they are on those screeners -- in which each episode is WITHOUT the opening credit sequence -- while the episodes actually airing on Showtime have had the opening credit sequence from the beginning.
I was the person who said the series was airing in the US without the opening credit sequence British people were talking about. But I have since learned that I was incorrect, and I found out why I had a wrong impression. Before the series started in the US, Showtime sent the first six episodes of the first season out to the media as "screeners" for review purposes. The legally-dodgy streaming site I have been using to watch Masters Of Sex has apparently been uploading the episodes as they are on those screeners -- in which each episode is WITHOUT the opening credit sequence -- while the episodes actually airing on Showtime have had the opening credit sequence from the beginning.
Ah, that's sorted then!! Just the pilot here that didn't have the opening credit sequence, but that's quite common.
I am in love with Dr Langham (Teddy Sears)...he's gorgeous
Margaret Scully certainly sees him a whole new light, that's for sure. I felt for the poor lady but such grace in her predicament. I loved that scene with her friend and one of them was talking about Bill's study. Now, I'm wondering whether Langham's affections will displace from Jane to Margaret. They are two very different women in age, look and experience. Wonder what Bill and Gini would say about that and "the mystery of attraction".
This show really does get better and better. I found it one of the funniest so far: Man in lift to Jane and Langham: "Going up" and the look on Langham's face:D.
There hasn't been one episode (or even one character) I haven't liked. I'll admit that Bill and Libby going away to Miami brought a different unfamiliar tone to the kind the series so far has led me to enjoy so much. (I just wanted that part of episode to be over and done with. I have a smiliar feeling when Mad Men shoot outside of New York.) But it return to familiar ground once Bill went back to work, so I wasn't put out too long.
As for the opening credit, though it takes some getting used to it, it serves a purpose. The girl puffing away nonchalently on a cigarette when the boy lies knocked on the bench after a kiss was particuarly amusing.
There hasn't been one episode (or even one character) I haven't liked. I'll admit that Bill and Libby going away to Miami brought a different unfamiliar tone to the kind the series so far has led me to enjoy so much. (I just wanted that part of episode to be over and done with. I have a smiliar feeling when Mad Men shoot outside of New York.) But it return to familiar ground once Bill went back to work, so I wasn't put out too long.
You mean the New York setting (right?) because with the exception of the pilot, Mad Men films entirely in Los Angeles.
The show is set in the St Louis area, but we haven't seen very much that strongly indicates a St Louis location. I visited St Louis once but that was a long time ago
I loved the Miami scenes. I grew up in Miami and I love the old hotels, especially during the time period of the show. The 50s were the heyday of Miami as a glamourous resort. My parents spent their honeymoon there in 1955- I can just imagine them dressed like Libby in that fabulous straw hat
You mean the New York setting (right?) because with the exception of the pilot, Mad Men films entirely in Los Angeles.
Oops, I didn't mean that - my mistake. I shouldn't have said "shoot". Sorry! What I meant was I didn't like it when the actual story in Mad Men would move to another state. For instance, the ad agency is in New York (and the main stories take place there), but then the writers write an episode that sees Don in California and the tone takes a different atmosphere or dramatic tone and feel to it, whether it's seeing the constant sunshine with the characters wearing light cotton shirts and men in their shirt sleeves or a bunch of hippies on tripping on drugs. I know the change in atmosphere and how it affects the characters is the main point the writers are making here - it can open up a character and add another layer to the story arc. But for me it also takes me away from the main narrative flow as well; I sit through those scenes just itching for them to get back on track, so to speak.
The Miami scenes felt a bit like that to me. I'm so used to scenes taking place in St Louis or the hospital or at Bill's home and so on.
I don't know. California, Miami - if the writers want a character to do something different or expose a hidden side to them, they take them to sunny climes!
On the whole, the Miami scenes were OK because they didn't last too long and Bill got back to where he belonged. It mainly served to show Libby's pain and loneliness, and what it felt for a married woman in the 50s to be childless if being a mother was the option available to you at the time. Bill had his work to lose himself in; Libby had nothing, not even her husband.
Oh, and another thing I thought was quite clever about Tuesday's episode and how the table was subtlely turned off in their realtionship. In the pilot, Bill suggested to Virginia that to get the best out of study they should engage in some personal research themselves; Virginia declined to take up the suggestion. Engaging in that kind of "research" as a mere secretary wouldn't have made it scientific but a sleazy, cheap, vulgar affair to satisfy her boss's sexual gratifications and whims. But her new position as research assistant not only makes her as equal to Bill as she could possibly get with her limited qualifications and opportunites, but has changed the dynamics in their relationship. I loved how genuine Bill was with the promotion and his new found respect for Virginia on the one hand, and then on the other how unwitting and unsuspecting he became over its overall effects and consequences.
Even before Virginia's promotion, I always felt their relationship was going serve as some "scientific" study in and of itself, serving as a metaphor or symbolic platform for the very things they are seeking to find answers to, and then some.
I'm so into this now. The whole show feels comfortable now that we've got used to the 'scientific bonking', lol. Sheen & Caplan are so good - that last orgasm was so realistic that I knew exactly how they felt (& how that can surprise you!), and I felt it right down to my toes, tee hee.......
it was soooo good, again. I really felt kinda happy for the Scullys (both of them) at times during this episode ... Margaret for her joy at the affair with Langham, Barton with the care shown by his guy (dale?) ...although scared they are both doomed for some unhappiness in the future episodes
I'm so into this now. The whole show feels comfortable now that we've got used to the 'scientific bonking', lol. Sheen & Caplan are so good - that last orgasm was so realistic that I knew exactly how they felt (& how that can surprise you!), and I felt it right down to my toes, tee hee.......
the acting throughout is pretty fantastic. Such genuinely rounded, nuanced, complicated characters.
What's wrong with Dr Langham? Is he the kind of guy who cannot commit or what?
You know, I'm looking forward to knowing the answer to that. I laughed how quickly he dismissed the psychological idea that what he really wanted was to have sex with his mother. He's certainly not a keen fan of Freud, that one!
That's part of the fascination with this series for me: how it peals off layers upon layers of a complex matrix of sex, attraction, love and committement through its characters, to slowly unveil how that matrix affects us all so differently. It also tells us a lot about the characters themselves. Brilliant writing in my view.
The Langham scene with the sex psychologist was my favourite, but it was interesting to see how Viriginia might be struggling to keeping those lines as clearly defined as possible. Maybe they should add that element to their study: abandonment & loneliness.
the acting throughout is pretty fantastic. Such genuinely rounded, nuanced, complicated characters.
So true! The acting and well-drawn characters drives the whole series. It hasn't let off stream so far. I admire the boldness of the show not hold back on anything - it's not often I say that about any show.
I missed what Ethan and Libby had said in the consultation room re: getting pregnant. Did they say that they were going to use a sperm bank to get Libby pregnant, suggesting that any child Libby may have wouldn't be Bill's?
Ethan said that they were going to use Bill's frozen sperm and that she needed to have sex with Bill so that he wouldn't suspect an immaculate conception.
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I think the US airing doesn't include the opening credits, but this may explain the cut sex scene from the week before last...
I was the person who said the series was airing in the US without the opening credit sequence British people were talking about. But I have since learned that I was incorrect, and I found out why I had a wrong impression. Before the series started in the US, Showtime sent the first six episodes of the first season out to the media as "screeners" for review purposes. The legally-dodgy streaming site I have been using to watch Masters Of Sex has apparently been uploading the episodes as they are on those screeners -- in which each episode is WITHOUT the opening credit sequence -- while the episodes actually airing on Showtime have had the opening credit sequence from the beginning.
Ah, that's sorted then!! Just the pilot here that didn't have the opening credit sequence, but that's quite common.
Margaret Scully certainly sees him a whole new light, that's for sure. I felt for the poor lady but such grace in her predicament. I loved that scene with her friend and one of them was talking about Bill's study. Now, I'm wondering whether Langham's affections will displace from Jane to Margaret. They are two very different women in age, look and experience. Wonder what Bill and Gini would say about that and "the mystery of attraction".
This show really does get better and better. I found it one of the funniest so far: Man in lift to Jane and Langham: "Going up" and the look on Langham's face:D.
There hasn't been one episode (or even one character) I haven't liked. I'll admit that Bill and Libby going away to Miami brought a different unfamiliar tone to the kind the series so far has led me to enjoy so much. (I just wanted that part of episode to be over and done with. I have a smiliar feeling when Mad Men shoot outside of New York.) But it return to familiar ground once Bill went back to work, so I wasn't put out too long.
As for the opening credit, though it takes some getting used to it, it serves a purpose. The girl puffing away nonchalently on a cigarette when the boy lies knocked on the bench after a kiss was particuarly amusing.
i'll bite.
In what way is it a porno? Because we saw, for example in last night's episode, 2 pairs of boobs? have you ever seen a grumble flick?
You mean the New York setting (right?) because with the exception of the pilot, Mad Men films entirely in Los Angeles.
I loved the Miami scenes. I grew up in Miami and I love the old hotels, especially during the time period of the show. The 50s were the heyday of Miami as a glamourous resort. My parents spent their honeymoon there in 1955- I can just imagine them dressed like Libby in that fabulous straw hat
Oops, I didn't mean that - my mistake. I shouldn't have said "shoot". Sorry! What I meant was I didn't like it when the actual story in Mad Men would move to another state. For instance, the ad agency is in New York (and the main stories take place there), but then the writers write an episode that sees Don in California and the tone takes a different atmosphere or dramatic tone and feel to it, whether it's seeing the constant sunshine with the characters wearing light cotton shirts and men in their shirt sleeves or a bunch of hippies on tripping on drugs. I know the change in atmosphere and how it affects the characters is the main point the writers are making here - it can open up a character and add another layer to the story arc. But for me it also takes me away from the main narrative flow as well; I sit through those scenes just itching for them to get back on track, so to speak.
The Miami scenes felt a bit like that to me. I'm so used to scenes taking place in St Louis or the hospital or at Bill's home and so on.
I don't know. California, Miami - if the writers want a character to do something different or expose a hidden side to them, they take them to sunny climes!
On the whole, the Miami scenes were OK because they didn't last too long and Bill got back to where he belonged. It mainly served to show Libby's pain and loneliness, and what it felt for a married woman in the 50s to be childless if being a mother was the option available to you at the time. Bill had his work to lose himself in; Libby had nothing, not even her husband.
Oh, and another thing I thought was quite clever about Tuesday's episode and how the table was subtlely turned off in their realtionship. In the pilot, Bill suggested to Virginia that to get the best out of study they should engage in some personal research themselves; Virginia declined to take up the suggestion. Engaging in that kind of "research" as a mere secretary wouldn't have made it scientific but a sleazy, cheap, vulgar affair to satisfy her boss's sexual gratifications and whims. But her new position as research assistant not only makes her as equal to Bill as she could possibly get with her limited qualifications and opportunites, but has changed the dynamics in their relationship. I loved how genuine Bill was with the promotion and his new found respect for Virginia on the one hand, and then on the other how unwitting and unsuspecting he became over its overall effects and consequences.
Even before Virginia's promotion, I always felt their relationship was going serve as some "scientific" study in and of itself, serving as a metaphor or symbolic platform for the very things they are seeking to find answers to, and then some.
I must say this show is becoming unmissable for me. I think a second series has been commissioned for 2014 and I hope CH4 carry on showing it.
My God was that Brad!
aw but Ginny sitting there alone at the end
the acting throughout is pretty fantastic. Such genuinely rounded, nuanced, complicated characters.
Thanks:) I too hope this doesn't siphoned off to a cable channel. I don't have cable.
You know, I'm looking forward to knowing the answer to that. I laughed how quickly he dismissed the psychological idea that what he really wanted was to have sex with his mother. He's certainly not a keen fan of Freud, that one!
That's part of the fascination with this series for me: how it peals off layers upon layers of a complex matrix of sex, attraction, love and committement through its characters, to slowly unveil how that matrix affects us all so differently. It also tells us a lot about the characters themselves. Brilliant writing in my view.
The Langham scene with the sex psychologist was my favourite, but it was interesting to see how Viriginia might be struggling to keeping those lines as clearly defined as possible. Maybe they should add that element to their study: abandonment & loneliness.
So true! The acting and well-drawn characters drives the whole series. It hasn't let off stream so far. I admire the boldness of the show not hold back on anything - it's not often I say that about any show.
I missed what Ethan and Libby had said in the consultation room re: getting pregnant. Did they say that they were going to use a sperm bank to get Libby pregnant, suggesting that any child Libby may have wouldn't be Bill's?