Colorado prosecutors are investigating whether a religious ritual was involved in the deaths of two young girls whose bodies were found last month in a car on a vacant property near Norwood, People confirms.
“It is part of the investigation by the sheriff’s office,” 7th District Attorney’s Office spokesperson Sherry McKenzie tells People. “It is a very concerning case whenever you find two young children deceased.”
Nashika Bramble, the 36-year-old Florida mother of the two girls, and 37-year-old Madani Ceus, of Haiti, were both charged late last week with two counts of first-degree murder in the deaths. Both...
“It is part of the investigation by the sheriff’s office,” 7th District Attorney’s Office spokesperson Sherry McKenzie tells People. “It is a very concerning case whenever you find two young children deceased.”
Nashika Bramble, the 36-year-old Florida mother of the two girls, and 37-year-old Madani Ceus, of Haiti, were both charged late last week with two counts of first-degree murder in the deaths. Both...
- 10/13/2017
- by Christine Pelisek
- PEOPLE.com
Four suspects have been arrested in the tragic deaths of two young girls whose bodies were found Friday on a farm in San Miguel County, Colorado, according to multiple reports.
The girls, who were between the ages of 5 and 10, were said to be dead for at least two weeks before being discovered in the rural southwestern Colorado farm about 30 miles west of the ski resort town of Telluride, the Associated Press reports.
“In my 37 years as Sheriff, I have never seen anything as cruel and heartless as this,” San Miguel County Sheriff Bill Masters told ABC News-13.
The four people arrested — 23-year-old Frederick A.
The girls, who were between the ages of 5 and 10, were said to be dead for at least two weeks before being discovered in the rural southwestern Colorado farm about 30 miles west of the ski resort town of Telluride, the Associated Press reports.
“In my 37 years as Sheriff, I have never seen anything as cruel and heartless as this,” San Miguel County Sheriff Bill Masters told ABC News-13.
The four people arrested — 23-year-old Frederick A.
- 9/9/2017
- by Dave Quinn
- PEOPLE.com
We’ve arrived at a major turning point not only in Masters of Sex, but in Masters and Johnson’s history. In four seasons the show has covered the first half of the partners’s history from 1957 to when they marry in 1971. The core of their relationship hasn’t been a typical love affair, it’s been the intimate partnership they could achieve with no one else. It’s not as if they haven’t tried to connect with other people. Bill Masters and Virginia Johnson have just never been able to give themselves up completely, either personally or professionally, with anyone else. For the
Masters of Sex Season 4 Finale: Foresaking All Others...
Masters of Sex Season 4 Finale: Foresaking All Others...
- 11/14/2016
- by Araceli Aviles
- TVovermind.com
We’ve got questions, and you’ve (maybe) got answers! With another week of TV gone by, we’re lobbing queries left and right about shows including Once Upon a Time, Supergirl, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Big Bang and Supernatural!
1 | The way Hawaii Five-0‘s Kono and Adam seem to get terrorized a few times s a season, did you think/hope their latest ordeal would be revealed as an elaborate Halloween prank?
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2 | Granted he’s only been in one episode, but is The Walking Dead‘s ridiculously over-the-top Ezekiel proof...
1 | The way Hawaii Five-0‘s Kono and Adam seem to get terrorized a few times s a season, did you think/hope their latest ordeal would be revealed as an elaborate Halloween prank?
RelatedFive-0′s Alex O’Loughlin Previews Episode 150, Hints at Exit
2 | Granted he’s only been in one episode, but is The Walking Dead‘s ridiculously over-the-top Ezekiel proof...
- 11/4/2016
- TVLine.com
Bill has never been the most romantic man.
He's often clinical in his approach to sex, relationships, and love. However, there's one person from Bill's past who may have seen a different side of Bill.
On Masters of Sex Season 4 Episode 7, Bill wrote a letter to his first love, Dody, in the hope that she would finally answer a question he's been carrying around for years.
Elsewhere in the episode, Virginia and Nancy went undercover at a retreat, and the clinic may finally be taking steps forward to expand its research.
We've seen Bill's relationships with both Libby and Virginia, but we haven't seen the man he was when he was with Dody. The way he described their youthful love is when I have a hard time imagining.
Who is this woman that captivated Bill? From what we've seen of her, she appears to be beautiful, smart, and able to joke around with Bill.
He's often clinical in his approach to sex, relationships, and love. However, there's one person from Bill's past who may have seen a different side of Bill.
On Masters of Sex Season 4 Episode 7, Bill wrote a letter to his first love, Dody, in the hope that she would finally answer a question he's been carrying around for years.
Elsewhere in the episode, Virginia and Nancy went undercover at a retreat, and the clinic may finally be taking steps forward to expand its research.
We've seen Bill's relationships with both Libby and Virginia, but we haven't seen the man he was when he was with Dody. The way he described their youthful love is when I have a hard time imagining.
Who is this woman that captivated Bill? From what we've seen of her, she appears to be beautiful, smart, and able to joke around with Bill.
- 10/24/2016
- by Amanda Steinmetz
- TVfanatic
History always has a way of repeating itself, but Bill Masters seems determined to avoid it.
As the trial was about to begin on Masters of Sex Season 4 Episode 5, Bill was eager to revisit his past with Libby, but was saddened to learn that sometimes revisiting the past means there’s a larger issue at hand.
Elsewhere in the episode, Virginia admitted she belonged with Bill, and Betty confronted Helen about the future of their family.
There was a lot to love about this installment: Libby continued to shine, Betty and Helen’s family dilemma, but most of all, Bill’s addiction awareness.
However, I can’t help but feel like Bill’s self-actualization process is just another plot device to keep Bill and Virginia apart. They are wrong for each other in so many ways, but the reality is that the real Masters and Johnson did get married (and...
As the trial was about to begin on Masters of Sex Season 4 Episode 5, Bill was eager to revisit his past with Libby, but was saddened to learn that sometimes revisiting the past means there’s a larger issue at hand.
Elsewhere in the episode, Virginia admitted she belonged with Bill, and Betty confronted Helen about the future of their family.
There was a lot to love about this installment: Libby continued to shine, Betty and Helen’s family dilemma, but most of all, Bill’s addiction awareness.
However, I can’t help but feel like Bill’s self-actualization process is just another plot device to keep Bill and Virginia apart. They are wrong for each other in so many ways, but the reality is that the real Masters and Johnson did get married (and...
- 10/10/2016
- by Amanda Steinmetz
- TVfanatic
It's about time, Bill Masters! You've finally begun to see the light.
It may have taken Bill more than a decade to find some clarity, but he's finally begun to understand just how dysfunctional his desire for Virginia actually is.
Elsewhere in Masters of Sex Season 4 Episode 3, Bill and Virginia worked with their new associates, and Libby met a handsome stranger.
It's amazing how the tables have turned in the never-ending saga of Bill and Virginia's relationship. Bill had been floundering over his obsession with Virginia while she actively tried to find happiness away from him and their work.
Alice's appearance and subsequent revelation that Dan and Virginia never married was a wake up call for Bill. Alice had stood by Dan through countless affairs and even cleaned up the women's broken hearts after her husband was through with them.
Seeing Alice's pathetic devotion to her husband shook Bill.
It may have taken Bill more than a decade to find some clarity, but he's finally begun to understand just how dysfunctional his desire for Virginia actually is.
Elsewhere in Masters of Sex Season 4 Episode 3, Bill and Virginia worked with their new associates, and Libby met a handsome stranger.
It's amazing how the tables have turned in the never-ending saga of Bill and Virginia's relationship. Bill had been floundering over his obsession with Virginia while she actively tried to find happiness away from him and their work.
Alice's appearance and subsequent revelation that Dan and Virginia never married was a wake up call for Bill. Alice had stood by Dan through countless affairs and even cleaned up the women's broken hearts after her husband was through with them.
Seeing Alice's pathetic devotion to her husband shook Bill.
- 9/26/2016
- by Amanda Steinmetz
- TVfanatic
Bill Masters and Virginia Johnson have a long and complicated relationship. After finally hitting rock bottom, has Bill finally learned to let go?
Even though he appeared to find some clarity in Masters of Sex Season 4 Episode 1, I'm not betting on Bill's revelation lasting too long.
The world is quickly changing around them, but Bill and Virginia always seem to find their way back to one another.
We caught up with the estranged duo several weeks after the events of Masters of Sex Season 3 Episode 12. Bill was trying out an overgrown beard and drinking himself into a stupor, while Virginia rambled on about her husband Dan and slept with a bartender.
It's unclear what happened with Dan and Virginia after they boarded that plane, but he was nowhere to be found. It's possible they never got married or they did get hitched and Dan turned out to not be the man Virginia thought he was.
Even though he appeared to find some clarity in Masters of Sex Season 4 Episode 1, I'm not betting on Bill's revelation lasting too long.
The world is quickly changing around them, but Bill and Virginia always seem to find their way back to one another.
We caught up with the estranged duo several weeks after the events of Masters of Sex Season 3 Episode 12. Bill was trying out an overgrown beard and drinking himself into a stupor, while Virginia rambled on about her husband Dan and slept with a bartender.
It's unclear what happened with Dan and Virginia after they boarded that plane, but he was nowhere to be found. It's possible they never got married or they did get hitched and Dan turned out to not be the man Virginia thought he was.
- 9/12/2016
- by Amanda Steinmetz
- TVfanatic
One episode was provided prior to broadcast.
There’s always a stealth reason to stick with the flawed, but occasionally brilliant Masters of Sex. For all of Season 3’s faults (an uneven and severely unfocused 12-episode arc, for starters), the show pulled all of its safest tricks to keep longtime fans invested. That unfortunately killed some of the excitement for the opening of Season 4, because at this point, haven’t we seen everything?
Season 4’s first episode, “Freefall,” makes the case that the series is yet to peak, perhaps because at last (12 years in), Bill Masters is shifting the narrative of his own story, dancing nicely in parallel to Virginia’s struggle to maintain her rise as she grows more independent of the “brand” they’ve built together.
Thankfully set in the wake of last season’s cliffhanger ending rather than an abrupt time skip, the first episode oddly takes...
There’s always a stealth reason to stick with the flawed, but occasionally brilliant Masters of Sex. For all of Season 3’s faults (an uneven and severely unfocused 12-episode arc, for starters), the show pulled all of its safest tricks to keep longtime fans invested. That unfortunately killed some of the excitement for the opening of Season 4, because at this point, haven’t we seen everything?
Season 4’s first episode, “Freefall,” makes the case that the series is yet to peak, perhaps because at last (12 years in), Bill Masters is shifting the narrative of his own story, dancing nicely in parallel to Virginia’s struggle to maintain her rise as she grows more independent of the “brand” they’ve built together.
Thankfully set in the wake of last season’s cliffhanger ending rather than an abrupt time skip, the first episode oddly takes...
- 9/11/2016
- by Jon Negroni
- We Got This Covered
Season 4 of Masters of Sex premieres on September 11 at 10pm Eastern on Showtime. I’ve been blogging this show for all of its run.
Masters of Sex is based on the true story of the breakthrough sex research of Doctor William Masters (Michael Sheen) and Virginia Johnson (Lizzy Caplan) (“Masters & Johnson”), while intermingling fact and fiction. Some characters are entirely fictional, parts of the chronology are tweaked, but major historical moments are generally respected.
Where we left off: Here’s the quick summation of the Season 3 finale—read below for a detailed series summary. Bill Masters, realizing his love for Virginia Johnson, confesses his affair to his wife, who already knew. Too late; he’s chased Virginia and her new fiancé to the airport, but they take off for Mexico and presumably elopement. Barton Scully is in love with a hot gay doctor. Helen and Betty are expecting thanks to Austin.
Masters of Sex is based on the true story of the breakthrough sex research of Doctor William Masters (Michael Sheen) and Virginia Johnson (Lizzy Caplan) (“Masters & Johnson”), while intermingling fact and fiction. Some characters are entirely fictional, parts of the chronology are tweaked, but major historical moments are generally respected.
Where we left off: Here’s the quick summation of the Season 3 finale—read below for a detailed series summary. Bill Masters, realizing his love for Virginia Johnson, confesses his affair to his wife, who already knew. Too late; he’s chased Virginia and her new fiancé to the airport, but they take off for Mexico and presumably elopement. Barton Scully is in love with a hot gay doctor. Helen and Betty are expecting thanks to Austin.
- 9/11/2016
- by Deborah Lipp
- FilmExperience
The TV calendar resets itself this month, with networks getting their dependable properties out of mothballs and shining up their brand-new programming for a grand debut. As students sullenly trudge back into classes, TV starts to get good again, following a long, blistering summer with a cavalcade of series premieres from well-pedigreed creators. While some of cable's edgiest returning programming turns up the sex and violence once again, budding visionaries such as hip-hop polymath Donald Glover, Selma director Ava DuVernay, and frequent Louis C.K. collaborator Pamela Adlon all get their...
- 9/6/2016
- Rollingstone.com
Masters of Sex‘s Virginia Johnson and Bill Masters have always been very forthright and non-judgmental about sex. And in Season 4, portrayer Lizzy Caplan says, the world is finally going to catch up to them.
“Now we’re in the swinging ’60s, and everybody is f–king everybody,” Caplan joked during a Television Critics Association panel Thursday. “All of a sudden, the world is reflecting a lot of the stuff these two people were doing behind closed doors.”
RelatedMasters of Sex Stages Getting On Reunion, Recruits Corey Reynolds as Niecy Nash’s Husband in Season 4
Caplan and co-star Michael Sheen,...
“Now we’re in the swinging ’60s, and everybody is f–king everybody,” Caplan joked during a Television Critics Association panel Thursday. “All of a sudden, the world is reflecting a lot of the stuff these two people were doing behind closed doors.”
RelatedMasters of Sex Stages Getting On Reunion, Recruits Corey Reynolds as Niecy Nash’s Husband in Season 4
Caplan and co-star Michael Sheen,...
- 8/11/2016
- TVLine.com
Sarah Silverman can't help but gush about her "real-life lover" and co-star Michael Sheen.
"He really classes me up and I just pull him right down to my level unfortunately for him," the comedian told James Lipton while appearing on Bravo's Inside the Actors Studio. "I could go on and on."
The couple, who have been dating since early 2014, play alongside each other in Showtime's Master's of Sex. Despite having been together for quite some time, Silverman couldn't quite seem to remember her beau's name when asked who plays the role of Bill Masters.
"Bill Masters is played by the sexy,...
"He really classes me up and I just pull him right down to my level unfortunately for him," the comedian told James Lipton while appearing on Bravo's Inside the Actors Studio. "I could go on and on."
The couple, who have been dating since early 2014, play alongside each other in Showtime's Master's of Sex. Despite having been together for quite some time, Silverman couldn't quite seem to remember her beau's name when asked who plays the role of Bill Masters.
"Bill Masters is played by the sexy,...
- 10/22/2015
- by Christina Dugan, @Christina_Dugan
- People.com - TV Watch
Sarah Silverman is not mincing words about her "real-life lover" Michael Sheen. The Emmy winner sat down with James Lipton for Bravo's Inside the Actors Studio and discussed a bevy of things, including her work on Showtime's Masters of Sex where she plays a lesbian wanting a baby and acts alongside her real-life beau. When describing Masters of Sex, Silverman praised Lizzy Caplan and when it came time to discuss Sheen, well, that's when she launched into it. "Bill Masters is played by the sexy, gorgeous, astoundingly-brilliant—I'm just stalling because I can't remember his name— Michael Sheen, who is also my real-life love," she told Lipton. Lipton's reaction?...
- 10/21/2015
- E! Online
Review: 'Masters of Sex' Season 3, Episode 12, 'Full Ten Count': 'Masters of Sex' Surrenders Control
Previously: Review: 'Masters of Sex' Season 3, Episode 11, 'Party of Four': Fear and Trembling Back in the boxing ring -- a familiar metaphor for his pugilistic relationships with the scientific establishment, midcentury mores and the personal and professional families he's built over the course of a decade -- Dr. Bill Masters (Michael Sheen) begins the season finale of "Masters of Sex" bloodied and staggering. The lopsided match is only a dream, of course, but as his father and son jeer from the front row, it's clear that Bill's desperate efforts to stay in control have already started to unravel: "A man's got to know when he's beat, son," his father snipes. In a season consumed by what we can chart and measure, contain and explain, the wonderfully chaotic "Full Ten Count" thus focuses on what we cannot, and in doing so suggests -- in contrast to the season premiere,...
- 9/28/2015
- by Matt Brennan
- Indiewire
Previously: 'Masters of Sex' Season 3, Episode 6: The Trial and Error of 'Two Scents' The Syllabus In Howard Hawks' antic comedy, "Monkey Business" (1952), buttoned-up chemist Barnaby Fulton (Cary Grant) ingests an elixir of youth and spends a freewheeling afternoon with buxom secretary Lois Laurel (Marilyn Monroe). The experience, he relates later, is one of "maladjustment, idiocy and a series of low-comedy disasters," but this screwball spirit unfortunately fails to translate to tonight's "Masters of Sex." Culminating with a scene in which Bill Masters (Michael Sheen) aims his recent cruelty at erstwhile partner Virginia Johnson (Lizzy Caplan), the episode fails to make hay from its droll premise, preferring instead a bewildering blend of squeamish humor, strange secrets, and slight camp. "Monkey Business" may be designed as a mischievous double entendre, but it blares its tired understanding of the battle of...
- 8/24/2015
- by Matt Brennan
- Indiewire
With each passing episode of Masters of Sex, I continue to fall somewhere along the mild-annoyance-to-outright-rage scale regarding the show's continued focus on the (imagined) personal lives of its main characters. But last night's episode, which featured, of all things, an extended subplot about Bill Masters becoming a children's football coach, may have driven me over the edge.Anyway. Bill is apparently a passionate American football fan, as of, like, three episodes ago (seriously, am I forgetting references to football in previous seasons?). A quick glance through Thomas Maier's book about Masters and Johnson reveals a few references to Bill's college-football days, but I can't remember Bill taking a particular interest (or at least not a fanatical one) in the sport in season one or two. He decides to start assistant-coaching a pee-wee team, and insists his son John join. This is as baffling as Bill's sudden interest — as...
- 8/17/2015
- by Lauren Hoffman
- Vulture
"I see the sets as characters," "Masters of Sex" production designer Michael Wylie says, and though the expression is as common in Hollywood art departments as sexual dysfunction was in midcentury St. Louis, one glance at Wylie's Emmy-nominated work on Showtime's period drama is enough to know he means it. Wylie spoke to Toh! recently about five key sets from the series, created by Michelle Ashford and starring Michael Sheen and Lizzy Caplan as pioneering sex researchers Bill Masters and Virginia Johnson. Read More: "Emmy Watch: 'Masters of Sex Is One of the Best Shows on Television. Will Voters Notice?" Washington University HospitalMuch of the action in the series' first season, which opens in 1956, takes place in the offices and corridors of Washington University Hospital's obstetrics department, where renowned physician Bill Masters (Sheen) embarks on a controversial, off-the-books sex study with the help of his new assistant, former nightclub.
- 8/12/2015
- by Matt Brennan
- Thompson on Hollywood
Previously: Review: 'Masters of Sex' Season 3, Episode 3: After 'The Excitement of Release,' the Sweet Smell of Success The Syllabus As Bill Masters (Michael Sheen) scans the "thimble-deep" wisdom of Dale Carnegie's "How to Win Friends and Influence People," his eyes dart toward the emblem of his own limited clout. Nearing the end of its first print run, "Human Sexual Response" has sold a "respectable" but unspectacular 15,000 copies, tucked into the dim back aisles of bookstores where prying eyes can't see, and Bill is willing to intervene if it ensures his study's read. He sidles up to a shamefaced customer and berates the store's snobbish owner, and if the suggestion that "winning friends is not [Bill's] strong suit" draws the connection rather too keenly, this week's "Masters of Sex" earns the chance to weave its tangled web nonetheless. Written by Gina Fattore and directed by Christopher...
- 8/3/2015
- by Matt Brennan
- Indiewire
Will second time be the charm for "Masters of Sex" recurring player Beau Bridges? He was nominated last year for playing Provost Barton Scully on the inaugural season of this Showtime drama but lost out to Joe Morton ("Scandal"). His episode submission in this year's Best Drama Guest Actor race is "Parallax," the emotional Season 2 premiere of this period piece. -Break- Join the 'Masters of Sex' discussion in our lively message boards Synopsis: Barton Scully, Provost of Washington University, asks Bill Masters if he'll drive him home after the procedure, since his wife doesn't know he's there. Barton then goes in for drastic electroshock therapy in order to try to cure his homosexuality. He wakes up later with mild amnesia, having no memory of the therapy at first, and vomits on Bill's suit. At home, Barton looks at male pornography in order to get in the mood, and then tries.
- 7/27/2015
- Gold Derby
Previously: Review: 'Masters of Sex' Season 3, Episode 2: If 'Three's a Crowd," Four Spells Trouble The Syllabus "From now on, the best of everything is good enough for me," man-on-the-make Sidney Falco (Tony Curtis) boasts in Alexander Mackendrick's acidly beautiful portrait of the Manhattan media elite, "Sweet Smell of Success" (1957), and though Bill Masters (Michael Sheen) may lack Falco's flashy manner, he expresses his ambition in much the same terms. "It's not enough," he tells Virginia (Lizzy Caplan) near the end of "The Excitement of Release," balking at Playboy founder Hugh Hefner's offer to fund the pair's future research in return for their "seal of approval." With glowing reviews, strong sales, and several prospective investors—in addition to mountains of hate mail and a member of the Committee for Decency's warning that "Hell is a real place"—"Human Sexual Response"...
- 7/27/2015
- by Matt Brennan
- Indiewire
Masters of Sex made a bold return Sunday. The Showtime drama’s season three opener was less about sex and more about the consequences that accompany it — kids, that is. It’s now 1966, four years from when we last saw Bill Masters (Michael Sheen) and Virginia Johnson (Lizzy Caplan) at the conclusion of season two, and they’re getting ready to publish their groundbreaking book, Human Sexual Response. Both are still struggling to meet the demands at home, however — a part of their lives the premiere chose to focus heavily on. For starters, Virginia’s children have grown up considerably: she accidentally walks
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- 7/17/2015
- by Bryn Elise Sandberg
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The Syllabus On "Masters of Sex," the blink of an eye can herald a whole new era. "Parliament of Owls" opens in 1965, four years after the conclusion of Season 2. But longtime lovers and professional collaborators Bill Masters (Michael Sheen) and Virginia Johnson (Lizzy Caplan), in Boston to publicize their forthcoming book, "Human Sexual Response," have barely opened the floor to questions when the series fires up the time machine once more. Though not nearly as delicate as last season's gorgeous, regretful triptych "Asterion," the episode transports us to a weekend at the lake four months earlier, amidst the chaos that erupts when Virginia, Bill, his wife, Libby (Caitlin FitzGerald), and a gaggle of fast-growing children navigate the shoals of human sexual response in all its forms. Read More: Watch: 'Masters of Sex' Season 3 Trailer Takes the Revolution on the Road Introduction to Intimacy with Bill Masters From...
- 7/13/2015
- by Matt Brennan
- Indiewire
When we rejoin Bill Masters and Virginia Johnson, there’s been a time jump to 1965 and the couple is in Boston to present their sex-study findings. Both are nervous about the press conference the next day, where an emboldened Virginia (Lizzy Caplan) confidently says, “We are the sexual revolution.” What’s most interesting about the show is that as season three opens, we now see how Masters and Johnson’s home lives have been affected by their work process and the fact that they’re now inextricably bound to each other professionally and sexually. Bill (Michael Sheen) is more distant than ever from.
- 7/13/2015
- by Diane Gordon
- The Wrap
Come July 12, Lizzy Caplan will break her own record.
That date is the third season premiere of Masters of Sex, the Showtime series in which Caplan stars as sex-research pioneer Virginia Johnson. But the day also officially marks the first time that Caplan, who got her TV start in 1999’s Freaks and Geeks, will have been a series regular on a series lasting longer than two seasons.
Video Watch Masters of Sex‘s Season 3 Trailer
“Party Down was the only other show I did that went more than one season, but those were 10-episode seasons and we shot them in 10 weeks,...
That date is the third season premiere of Masters of Sex, the Showtime series in which Caplan stars as sex-research pioneer Virginia Johnson. But the day also officially marks the first time that Caplan, who got her TV start in 1999’s Freaks and Geeks, will have been a series regular on a series lasting longer than two seasons.
Video Watch Masters of Sex‘s Season 3 Trailer
“Party Down was the only other show I did that went more than one season, but those were 10-episode seasons and we shot them in 10 weeks,...
- 6/25/2015
- TVLine.com
‘Masters of Sex’ Star Michael Sheen on His Sex Scene ‘Checklist’ and 5 Other Emmy Contender Quickies
Of all the characters on television last year, Michael Sheen‘s portrayal of Bill Masters, the sex researcher, stands out for its compellingly complex look at human intimacy and the pathologies of a man whose work changed our very society. Sheen, a veteran actor whose work has ranged from “Frost/Nixon” to “The Queen,” spoke to TheWrap for our Emmy quickie contender series. TheWrap: Do you enjoy digging into such a sensitive and taboo topic — not the sex, but the psychology of sex? Michael Sheen: It’s the psychology of intimacy and vulnerability. What drew me to the character is how damaged he is,...
- 6/19/2015
- by Sharon Waxman
- The Wrap
A lot more than just the date will be changing in the world of Masters of Sex when the series begins its third season this July. Although the show is doing a time jump between its Season 2 finale and its Season 3 premiere, as we now find Michael Sheen’s Bill Masters and Lizzy Caplan’s Virginia Johnson releasing the results of their infamous study and dealing with all the attention it brings them in 1966, it’s what’s happening between the two of them on a personal level, not a professional one, that may have changed the most. As you can see in the all-new trailer for Masters‘ third season, Bill and Virginia remain very much linked to their spouses (or ex-spouse, in her case), while still more connected to each other than ever; however, neither Libby (Caitlin Fitzgerald) or George appear to be in the dark anymore about what’s going on…...
- 6/9/2015
- by Chris King
- TVovermind.com
What’s to watch now that Mad Men is gone for good and Game of Thrones and Orphan Black are nearly done for the season? Showtime is happy to remind you that Masters of Sex is still to come this year. Season 3 picks up with Bill Masters (Michael Sheen) and Virginia Johnson (Lizzy Caplan) in 1966, right at the heart of […]
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- 6/9/2015
- by Angie Han
- Slash Film
It's 1966 and the sexual revolution is heating up - thanks, in part, to the stunning sex study completed by Bill Masters and Virginia Johnson.
Season 3 of Showtime's "Masters of Sex" begins five years after last year's finale, with collaborators/lovers Bill (Michael Sheen) and Virginia (Lizzy Caplan) ready to take their published study on the road.
Still in the picture is Bill's wife, Libby (Caitlin Fitzgerald), though she seems to have undergone her own sexual awakening over the years. As the trailer shows, she was always curious about "what it felt like ... with you" - meaning Libby!
This season introduces a major new character played by former "Good Wife" star Josh Charles. Daniel Logan is a businessman looking to sell the "smell of sex" in a bottle, and his relationship to the couple - particularly Virginia - becomes complicated. We'll also meet Virginia's parents, as played by Frances Fisher and Michael O'Keefe.
Season 3 of Showtime's "Masters of Sex" begins five years after last year's finale, with collaborators/lovers Bill (Michael Sheen) and Virginia (Lizzy Caplan) ready to take their published study on the road.
Still in the picture is Bill's wife, Libby (Caitlin Fitzgerald), though she seems to have undergone her own sexual awakening over the years. As the trailer shows, she was always curious about "what it felt like ... with you" - meaning Libby!
This season introduces a major new character played by former "Good Wife" star Josh Charles. Daniel Logan is a businessman looking to sell the "smell of sex" in a bottle, and his relationship to the couple - particularly Virginia - becomes complicated. We'll also meet Virginia's parents, as played by Frances Fisher and Michael O'Keefe.
- 6/9/2015
- by Kelly Woo
- Moviefone
Masters of Sex Season 2, Episode 11: “One for the Money, Two for the Show”
Written by Amy Lippman
Directed by Adam Bernstein
Airs Sundays at 10pm (Et) on Showtime
Even to someone who’s bad at taking notice of a lot of production design in film and TV, Bill Masters looks wrong with a regular tie instead of a bow tie. Of course, when he’s put in front of a camera, everything about him feels off. The man’s already extremely uncomfortable in his own skin, and the task of explaining his work to an audience of millions is daunting, to say the least. And that’s before the considerations of national television come into play — censorship (and lots of it), having to “dumb down” his talk without sounding prurient, and most troubling, having to use “creative reenactment” to fill out the story. Bill is obsessed with even the...
Written by Amy Lippman
Directed by Adam Bernstein
Airs Sundays at 10pm (Et) on Showtime
Even to someone who’s bad at taking notice of a lot of production design in film and TV, Bill Masters looks wrong with a regular tie instead of a bow tie. Of course, when he’s put in front of a camera, everything about him feels off. The man’s already extremely uncomfortable in his own skin, and the task of explaining his work to an audience of millions is daunting, to say the least. And that’s before the considerations of national television come into play — censorship (and lots of it), having to “dumb down” his talk without sounding prurient, and most troubling, having to use “creative reenactment” to fill out the story. Bill is obsessed with even the...
- 9/22/2014
- by Dan Schindel
- SoundOnSight
An important question before we dive into last night's Masters of Sex: Who on the set of the show was responsible for the construction and rigging of Bill Masters' fake morning erection? Is it a costume piece, or is it something the props department puts together? And what's it made of, anyway? Feel free to leave ideas in the comments. It's odd. If you'd asked me a few months ago what I most wanted to see on this season of Masters of Sex, I would've said that I was anxious to see Bill and Virginia finally get together. The romance of Bill turning up to tell Virginia that he needed (loved?) her was so compelling, and because I knew that they'd eventually marry, I'd imagined a lovely little courtship between them. I thought their eventual coupling would be a happy thing. But by the end of last night's episode,...
- 9/22/2014
- by Lauren Hoffman
- Vulture
A review of tonight's "Masters of Sex" coming up just as soon as I do pelvic exams with a miner's lamp stuck to my forehead... "This is the way back! I'm broken, and you're the one — you're the only one — who can fix me." -Bill For much of his life, Bill Masters has defined himself by his relationship to his abusive father, who always wanted Bill to be more of a man, and the ways in which Bill tried to forge his own brand of masculinity by not fighting back and not crying. Bill has turned himself into a man he feels proud of, but in the last few years of the show's timeline, his split from Virginia has caused him to lose one of the most fundamental aspects of being a man, whether you're a neanderthal like Francis Masters Sr. or a sex researcher like Bill. "Below the Belt" is,...
- 9/15/2014
- by Alan Sepinwall
- Hitfix
Masters of Sex has reached the ’60s. Over the course of “Asterion,” the seventh episode of the show’s second season, the setting jumped between 1958 and 1960. That posed a challenge for costume designer Ane Crabtree, who had to reflect the changing of the times in the characters’ garb. In fact, director Michael Dinner showed people quite literally “walking through time,” explained Crabtree. As Annaleigh Ashford’s character Betty Dimello, now working for the sex researchers, led guests through the lobby of Masters and Johnson’s new office building, both the outfits and the years changed. “I watched it twice because...
- 9/1/2014
- by Esther Zuckerman
- EW - Inside TV
A review of tonight's "Masters of Sex" coming up just as soon as we pass Stalin's gift shop... "It's hard to tell where you stop and I begin." -Ginny Last week, I wondered if starting the story of season 2 so soon after the events of season 1 was a mistake, given how much ground the show had to cover in Masters and Johnson's career and how little of consequence happened in the immediate aftermath of him being fired. I wonder if an episode like "Asterion" — which over the course of an hour pushes the narrative ahead by three years — was planned from the beginning, which made the season's first half a really long prologue to the next phase of the series, or if Michelle Ashford realized at some point that there wasn't enough material in the late '50s and abruptly shut down various subplots in order to set up this big time jump.
- 8/25/2014
- by Alan Sepinwall
- Hitfix
We've reached the point in Masters of Sex the series where I'm starting to feel like it’s problematic that I haven’t read Masters of Sex the book. I'm planning to remedy that as soon as I can — Michael Sheen is staring balefully at me from my merchandized tie-in copy as I type this — even though I find comparing books to their filmed adaptations to be roughly as useful as comparing pterodactyls to espresso machines. Still, with Masters of Sex, I'm finding myself more and more curious about who Bill Masters really was in comparison with the show’s Bill Masters, a curiosity mostly piqued by the introduction of Buell Green as a setting. As far as I can tell (and in this instance, "as far as I can tell" means "having poked around the internet for an hour," so please tell me if I'm mistaken), Masters never practiced...
- 8/11/2014
- by Lauren Hoffman
- Vulture
A review of tonight's "Masters of Sex" coming up just as soon as it's okay because we're taking notes... This episode is called "Giants," but it's largely about the little guys and gals trying to seize control of oppressive situations. When Virginia learns that her active participation in study is now a job requirement for Bill, she takes charge of their latest session at the hotel, forcing him to strip and follow her every command. (It's a nice role reversal of one of the scenes in "Fight.") Libby similarly demands sex from Bill (and gets it in the most functional, depressing way possible) after telling him how angry she is with him, while Coral's boyfriend expresses his displeasure to Libby about the lice shampoo incident. (And when Libby tries to bully Coral into breaking up with him, Coral instead takes advantage of what she knows about the Masters marriage to...
- 8/11/2014
- by Alan Sepinwall
- Hitfix
Masters of Sex is back to give you satisfaction.
After last season's finale interruptus, Showtime's period drama returnsSunday at 10/9c to finish what Bill Masters (Michael Sheen) started. The doctor had just declared to his sex research partner Virginia Johnson (Lizzy Caplan) that she is the one thing he cannot live without.
Photos: The most revealing red carpet looks ever
How will this revelation play out in Season 2? Read on to see what Masters, Johnson and the rest are up to:
Read More >...
After last season's finale interruptus, Showtime's period drama returnsSunday at 10/9c to finish what Bill Masters (Michael Sheen) started. The doctor had just declared to his sex research partner Virginia Johnson (Lizzy Caplan) that she is the one thing he cannot live without.
Photos: The most revealing red carpet looks ever
How will this revelation play out in Season 2? Read on to see what Masters, Johnson and the rest are up to:
Read More >...
- 7/12/2014
- by Hanh Nguyen
- TVGuide - Breaking News
“Masters of Sex” ended its first season with an apparent breakthrough: Michael Sheen‘s Bill Masters confessed to Lizzy Caplan‘s Virginia Johnson that he can't live without her. The opening episode of Season 2, debuting Sunday night on Showtime, makes it clear how partial that breakthrough was. The pair engage in sex so good that she immediately breaks up with boyfriend Ethan (Nicholas D'Agosto). But the obstinate obstetrician refuses to call their ensuing trysts an affair, coldly pointing out: “I'm married.” He's not the only one in denial during the opening episodes: hound dog Dr. Austin Langham (Teddy Sears) is still pretending.
- 7/11/2014
- by Diane Garrett
- The Wrap
Bill Masters and Virginia Johnson spend much of the second season premiere of the Showtime drama "Masters of Sex" (Sunday at 10) trying to redefine the nature and parameters of their relationship after the events of the show's marvelous first season. Are they now a couple? Is this just an affair? Is it still simply one small component of their groundbreaking study on human sexuality? If Masters (Michael Sheen) and Johnson (Lizzy Caplan) need more time to figure out what they're doing, "Masters of Sex" certainly does not. It was one of TV's very best dramas a year ago, and in many ways the start of season 2 suggests it's gotten even better. The first season ended with both disaster and epiphany, as an early version of the famous Masters and Johnson study was greeted with horrified indignation by Masters' medical colleagues, but also with the suddenly-unemployed Dr. Masters finally admitting that...
- 7/11/2014
- by Alan Sepinwall
- Hitfix
Showtime’s period drama Masters of Sex was one of the most pleasant surprises of the 2013-2014 season, and is a series that’s helped the network repair its tainted reputation. Don’t get me wrong, they’ve certainly put out some great shows over the past few years, but have not managed to garner the same positive reactions that other networks, like AMC and HBO, have.
Now that Mad Men and Game of Thrones are on break until next year, we’ll need something to fill the void left in our television-loving hearts, and Masters of Sex is certainly the show to do it. Luckily, we won’t have to wait long to satiate our appetites. The show returns on July 13th, and until then, we can feast our eyes on this first trailer for the upcoming season.
Last year, Dr. Bill Masters (Michael Sheen) succeeded in expanding his study on human sexuality.
Now that Mad Men and Game of Thrones are on break until next year, we’ll need something to fill the void left in our television-loving hearts, and Masters of Sex is certainly the show to do it. Luckily, we won’t have to wait long to satiate our appetites. The show returns on July 13th, and until then, we can feast our eyes on this first trailer for the upcoming season.
Last year, Dr. Bill Masters (Michael Sheen) succeeded in expanding his study on human sexuality.
- 6/28/2014
- by James Garcia
- We Got This Covered
It’s going to be a long hot summer, and Showtime has just dropped the teaser trailer for “Masters of Sex” Season 2!
In the forthcoming episodes, Bill Masters (played by Michael Sheen) and Virginia Johnson ( Lizzy Caplan) find themselves in an out-of-control affair that threatens to destroy Masters’ relationship with his wife and child.
Additionally, there’s a whole host of impressive guest stars on the docket including Beau Bridges, Courtney B. Vance, Barry Watson, Sarah Silverman and Allison Janney.
“Masters of Sex” Season 2 is slated to kick off on Sunday July 13th at 10pm on Showtime. Check the trailer below!
In the forthcoming episodes, Bill Masters (played by Michael Sheen) and Virginia Johnson ( Lizzy Caplan) find themselves in an out-of-control affair that threatens to destroy Masters’ relationship with his wife and child.
Additionally, there’s a whole host of impressive guest stars on the docket including Beau Bridges, Courtney B. Vance, Barry Watson, Sarah Silverman and Allison Janney.
“Masters of Sex” Season 2 is slated to kick off on Sunday July 13th at 10pm on Showtime. Check the trailer below!
- 6/27/2014
- GossipCenter
One of our 20 Best TV Shows Of The 2013/2014 Season, Showtime's "Masters Of Sex," is certainly one of the most intriguing dramas going on television right now. While the premise could easily have been pushed in a tawdry direction, the first season turned out to be something far richer, with Michael Sheen and Lizzy Caplan leading an array of complex characters, with varying relationships and attitudes to sex. And it says something about how much consideration is given to the supporting characters that Allison Janney got one of the most moving and heartbreaking arcs of the entire first season. And so, needless to say, we're stoked for season two. And the first trailer is here and things are getting even trickier for Dr. Bill Masters. It would appear his relationship with Virginia will continue, even if it means spurning his wife, and putting his professional career in jeopardy. Oh hey look,...
- 6/27/2014
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
One of the summer’s smartest and sudsiest shows also happens to have the steamiest title. Showtime’s Masters of Sex makes a red-hot return to your TV this July with its scandalous second season, and Entertainment Weekly has the scoop on who’s in (Sarah Silverman!), who’s out (Allison Janney!), and what’s to come in Michael Sheen and Lizzy Caplan’s sophomore year as sexologists Bill Masters and Virginia Johnson.
“One of the things that’s exciting about our show — daunting but exciting — is that every year is going to look pretty different,” teases showrunner Michelle Ashford.
“One of the things that’s exciting about our show — daunting but exciting — is that every year is going to look pretty different,” teases showrunner Michelle Ashford.
- 6/4/2014
- by EW staff
- EW.com - PopWatch
The new season of "Masters of Sex" is about six weeks away, so why not catch a sneak peek? Buzzfeed has released the first trailer for the show's second season, which premieres on Showtime in July. It is, as you might expect, pretty provocative. First of all, it looks like Bill and Virginia won't be apart for long. "We've participated in this study many times," says Michael Sheen's sex scientist Bill Masters in the trailer, "but at your apartment, something was....Read more...
- 5/30/2014
- by Yidio
- Yidio
A review of tonight's "True Detective" season finale coming up just as soon as I ask you what "scented meat" is... "Once, there was only dark. If you ask me, the light's winning." -Cohle When I interviewed "True Detective" creator Nic Pizzolatto before this season began, I asked him about how he expected to distinguish this show from the abundance of other serial killer dramas filling (or polluting, if you'd rather) primetime at the moment. We've seen by now that even though "True Detective" has many superficial elements and character types and plot devices in common with a lot of those shows (and other crime-adjacent dramas, like an early scene here that evoked the last episode of "Breaking Bad"), it is very much its own thing, and could not easily be compared to the others. "True Detective" and "Hannibal" both featured killers who displayed their victims' bodies with antlers, for instance,...
- 3/10/2014
- by Alan Sepinwall
- Hitfix
Once upon a time, it may very well have been possible to see all of the great television that aired in North America in a calendar year. For most of us, that time is over. From the ever-growing list of networks supplying quality programming to the advent of digital content providers smuggling in new and previously-unavailable series from around the world, 2013 marked the year TV became a truly unwieldy beast – in the best way possible. Beyond the distribution aspect, great television became a more diverse concept than ever before, in ways reflected in our staff’s collective list. Our Top 25 finds room for series of all shapes and sizes, from popular network mainstays to canceled-but-beloved cable darlings and everything in between. The beauty of it all? It’ll likely be even more painful to whittle it down to just 25 next year.
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25. Archer (FX)
One of the best animated series going at the moment,...
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25. Archer (FX)
One of the best animated series going at the moment,...
- 12/28/2013
- by Kate Kulzick
- SoundOnSight
The article below contains spoilers through the first season of "Masters of Sex." "Masters of Sex" ended its first season on Sunday with Bill Masters (Michael Sheen) showing up at the door of his former assistant and lover Virginia Johnson (Lizzy Caplan), saying "I finally realized there is one thing I can't live without -- it's you." It was a confession the series, which is the creation of Michelle Ashford, had been foreshadowing for quite some time, with a character observing Bill was in love with Virginia even before they started bumping uglies in the name of science. The 12-episode initial arc of the series made clear the ways in which Virginia has been good for Bill and the groundbreaking study of human sexuality he initiated -- she's warm where he's clinical, smart about people while he's smart about scientific process, and has a dedication to and viewpoint on the research that complements his.
- 12/17/2013
- by Alison Willmore
- Indiewire
Showtime's new drama "Masters of Sex" wrapped its first season on Sunday (Dec. 15), punctuating its season finale with a moment that the series has been building to all season long. Bill Masters (Michael Sheen) professed his love for Virginia Johnson (Lizzy Caplan) in the pouring rain.
Sure, the moment felt a bit like a moment in a Nicholas Sparks movie, but seeing as how "Masters of Sex" is telling a true story, anyone with any outside knowledge of the central partnership knew it was coming.
After Masters' presentation of his study falls apart once the topic moved from men to women (Gasp! Women are sexual beings, too?!), while Virginia reads his presentation and learns her name was added to the cover of the study, Bill shows up at her doorstep, telling her he can't live without her.
It may be a bit of an embellishment regarding the reality of their...
Sure, the moment felt a bit like a moment in a Nicholas Sparks movie, but seeing as how "Masters of Sex" is telling a true story, anyone with any outside knowledge of the central partnership knew it was coming.
After Masters' presentation of his study falls apart once the topic moved from men to women (Gasp! Women are sexual beings, too?!), while Virginia reads his presentation and learns her name was added to the cover of the study, Bill shows up at her doorstep, telling her he can't live without her.
It may be a bit of an embellishment regarding the reality of their...
- 12/16/2013
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Zap2It - From Inside the Box
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Towleroad first images from Ryan Murphy...
Total Film now that the Weinsteins have access to their Miramax back-catalogue expect sequels. Shakespeare in Love 2 is coming at you (no, this is not a satirical Onion style post)
Variety Disney is planning a Jesse Owens biopic centered around the 1936 Olympics in Berlin. Rich subject though it will obviously be easy to slide into pandering "inspirational"
/Film at press conference James Cameron compares his Avatar sequels to The Godfather trilogy. Oh Jimmy. I love you more than just about anyone but less talking (you're no good at it!) and more filmmaking (you're great at it!)
Cinema Blend first teaser for Gregg Araki's White Bird in a Blizzard with Eva Green and Shailene Woodley
In Contention Kris Tapley's top ten list featuring Mud, All is Lost, The Place Beyond the Pines and more
small screen and miscellania
Towleroad first images from Ryan Murphy...
- 12/16/2013
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
If you haven’t watched the season finale of Masters of Sex yet, go ahead and catch up before this post spoils everything and you’re forced to console yourself with help from Ulysses.
If, however, you saw Dr. Bill Masters (Michael Sheen) profess his love for Virginia Johnson (Lizzy Caplan) in the pouring rain, you’re either dying to know what’s going to happen next, or you suddenly have an inexplicable craving to watch a Nicholas Sparks movie.
Me? I wanted to see how much of Masters and Johnson’s real story had been fictionalized in the service of a good cliffhanger.
If, however, you saw Dr. Bill Masters (Michael Sheen) profess his love for Virginia Johnson (Lizzy Caplan) in the pouring rain, you’re either dying to know what’s going to happen next, or you suddenly have an inexplicable craving to watch a Nicholas Sparks movie.
Me? I wanted to see how much of Masters and Johnson’s real story had been fictionalized in the service of a good cliffhanger.
- 12/16/2013
- by Melissa Maerz
- EW.com - PopWatch
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