I rarely recommend a TV show because it’s very uncommon that there is one that I find so entertaining and intriguing. Masters of Sex on Showtime is based on Thomas Maier’s biography Masters of Sex: The Life and Times of William Masters and Virginia Johnson, the Couple Who Taught America How to Love and is one I highly recommend you check out.

The bio-series is set in St Louis, Missouri, in 1956. The show is about sex, desire, orgasm and Masters and Johnson’s efforts to test and quantify it. The characters are dynamic, well-acted and interesting. Relationships are diverse, like Masters’ relationship with his wife and their struggles to have a baby, the gay provost of the hospital and his unsuspecting wife who has never had an orgasm, Johnson’s relationship with her ex-husband and her challenge to juggle work as a single mother. However, the most fascinating evolving relationship is the one between William Masters and Virginia Johnson. Continue reading →