Check out this blooper reel from the last Game of Thrones season that Comic-Con put out the other day. It's worth it just to see the funny Peter Dinklage dance his way down the aisle at Tyrion's big trial moment. Awesome.
TRAILER: "The Walking Dead" Season 5
Walking Dead fans rejoice! One of the most popular shows on TV is coming back October 12th, and Comic-Con put out a long, very detailed trailer for the upcoming fifth season. Lots of zombie action as usual (I suspect that's really the only part of the show people actually like, since most of the humans are pretty dull). But if you're a fan, mark your calendars. It seems like they always try to bring this back as close to Halloween as possible. That's probably intentional, huh?
RECAP: Masters of Sex 2x03 "Fight"
Wow. What a great episode. Unfortunately, this kind of episode is what's known as the recapper's nightmare, because what I have to relay is mostly dialogue. Bill and Virginia spend the hour almost entirely in their hotel room during one of their clandestine meetings, having sex, talking, confessing and playing mind games with each other as they continue to deny what they're really doing is having an affair. But first we start off with Bill delivering a baby that possesses both male and female genitalia. It's a sad incident which becomes worse as the baby's father is pretty much a monster who insists on cutting off the baby's penis to make him a girl, even though blood tests show he's really a boy. But being a '50's dad and all, what's most important to him is that he not have a "sissy" for a son. Ick.
BIll is upset by this and tries to prevent it but the father goes around him and enlists a general surgeon who will do what he wants, even though he's never done the procedure before and has to literally follow a textbook in the middle of the operation. It's a tragic subplot that leads to Bill's somber mood when he goes to meet Ginny at the hotel. Before Ginny meets up with Bill she has a conversation with her daughter about "fairy tales," and it's clear that Ginny despises them for their happy endings and damsels in distress who have to be saved by men. Such a modern woman, that Virginia. So now we get to Bill and Ginny's rendezvous, and in order to recap what goes on in that room, we're going to list the relevant bits in a series of bullet points, so here we go:
• Bill is watching a boxing match on TV when Virginia arrives, so she goes to take a bath, and as she's undressing, Bill suddenly accosts her from behind and has her up against the wall in a frenzied sex session. Ginny acts like she's perturbed about it afterwards, but later admits to Bill that she liked it and liked the way he had her standing up. Steamy.
• Bill relays the day's events over the baby to Ginny, and his hatred of the father, who he says is a bully, like his own dad. He then tries to explain to Ginny the rules of boxing, as she laughs that he's so into it. Later, he actually tries to teach her how to punch, as they play act like the fighters and wind up with Ginny's bracelet stuck in his hair, which she has to saw off with a knife. It's pretty funny and marks the one time I think we've ever seen Bill laugh (he also actually calls her "Ginny" for the first time since the pilot, which delighted me).
• Ginny is unimpressed by his boring backstory to the waiter explaining their meet-ups, so she comes up with a more imaginative one for Mr. and Mrs. Holden, and actually gets Bill to play along as they pretend to be the married couple and talk to each other about their fake personal details. This also allows them to talk in half truths, leading to a personal confession from each of them.
• Ginny's Confession: she admits that she was in love with a man in her younger days who romanced her for a year and then one day left to marry his fiance, when she had no idea he was engaged. Turns out that's the reason she has sex freely but doesn't get emotionally attached to anyone. When Bill wonders where that leaves him she reverts back to an affectionate "Mrs. Holden" and we're unsure if she's telling the truth or not.
• Bill's Confession: he confesses fully to Virginia (when he never could to Libby) his abusive childhood, and the fact that his father regularly beat him and abandoned him in the city when he was 14, so that he could grow up and never come back. He also says he was proud of himself for never fighting back when his dad said he would stop when his son begged for mercy. Ugh, what an asshole. Ginny tells him there's no shame in admitting when you're hurt and that doing so doesn't make you less of a man. Bill gets teary-eyed at this. Aw.
• Can't leave this one out. Bill disrobes Virginia and wants her to beg him to make her feel good, but she refuses and defiantly says she can make herself feel good. She then masturbates in front of him. Again, steamy,
• Finally, both get ready to leave and Ginny tips the young waiter, advising him that her favorite thing about her "husband" is the way he takes her seriously and listens to her, and that he should remember that with his own girlfriend for the future. When he leaves, Bill comes over to fasten Ginny's bracelet for her and Ginny nearly strokes his hair affectionately, but stops herself. She then ignores his suggestion that this is where the married couple would kiss goodbye (they still haven't kissed on the mouth) and says she'll write up their "work" as role-playing and two acts of intercourse.
Bill goes to the hospital and finds out that the poor baby has been operated on, which devastates him as it was an act that was irrevocable, and Ginny stops by the lobby on her way out of the hotel, where a bunch of men are still gathered, watching the fight (which seems like it must have been the longest fight in history, but I suppose they could have only been there for a few hours). She tells one of the guys in the room she just wants to see how it ends.
So, yeah, they're never going to admit real feelings are they? Although I'm sure they're going to eventually kiss, I mean that has to happen, right? Well, aside from the too on-the-nose fight metaphors, this episode was a feat of writing, directing and acting, a great hour of television. Caplan and Sheen have amazing chemistry and this relationship is nothing less than compelling at every turn. I'm almost disappointed that the other cast members have to come back next week. But hey, at least that will make it easier to recap. See you then!
RECAP: Masters of Sex 2x02 "Kyrie Eleison"
Lots of different activities going on tonight, as BIll and Virginia start the episode together in the lobby of the hotel in which they're carrying on their affair, and then spend most of the rest of the hour apart. But first they start off having a discussion over where Barton could be hiding out, as neither of them seem able to get in touch with him. Then Bill tells Ginny that he hasn't been able to yet convince Greathouse (Danny Huston, who showed up in the last episode) of her importance in the study, since she's not herself a doctor despite her name being on the paper with his. Ginny's having none of that though, and gives herself the task of getting rid of Bill's assigned secretary so that he can be given free reign to hire her back at least in that position temporarily. She thinks it will be easy since all secretaries now seem to despise her very presence.
So Bill starts his new job at Memorial Hospital and is quickly preoccupied with a case involving an 18-year-old girl named Rose, who comes in needing immediate surgery for a botched abortion. Over the rest of the episode we find out that Rose thinks she's sick for having "urges" that can't be quelled, and she's had another previous abortion already that her parents knew about. This time her mother wants Bill to give her a hysterectomy, which Bill refuses to do, saying it's too drastic a move and would take away her choices for the rest of her life. Greathouse and Rose's mother insist he do the procedure and even Rose tells Bill she agrees as along as it will stop her from acting like a "whore," but Bill actually ups his sympathy level for once, tells her she's not her worst part, and gives her something more useful- and IUD. This subplot also involves Betty, who's spending her days sitting in Bill's reception area for hours at a time, pretending she's getting fertility treatments so she can tell her husband they're working on it. Bill yells at her to tell him the truth, but she won't do it and eavesdrops on Bill's case through the shouting matches with Greathouse. She then goes to Rose and tells her the inspirational story of how she stabbed her own mother in the eye with her high heel (lol), but when Rose mentions what Bill's already said to her, Betty seems to see him in a new light.
Meanwhile, on Virginia's side of things, she's dealing with Lillian's continuing deterioration from her metastasizing cancer. She's slurring her words now and can't go through with a taped promotional message on pap smears, so Ginny figures it out and schedules an appointment with Lillian's oncologist. It doesn't do much good though, as Lillian just says she doesn't want anyone to know, but it does seem to bring the two women closer together as friends. Ginny also has a very uncomfortable meeting with Dr. Ditmer over his required use of the phallic device/camera she and Bill invented, and seems to have an orgasmic reaction over just her explanation of what the device does, right in front of her. Gross. This scene also cuts back and forth between Bill explaining to the equally curious Greathouse all the different positions couples can take in the sex sessions of their study (this after Greathouse just called anyone who differs from the norm of sexual behavior perverts, sluts or queers. Nice. Look in the mirror dude). Ginny tries to confront Vivian about Barton, who comes in to the hospital so that Austin can fix her broken wrist (which she maintained after cutting her dad down from the ceiling last week), but Vivian blows up at her for stealing Ethan away and then dumping him, telling her not to pretend they're friends. She then later confesses to Bill, who meets her outside her school, what happened to Barton, and that he and her mother have gone to Venice for his recuperation. Bill is pretty devastated by the news.
Ginny comes into Bill's office to try to woo away his goofy new secretary Barbara (played by Betsy Brandt- hey it's Marie from Breaking Bad!), but she changes her mind when Barbara proves to be so nice to her and eagerly wants advice on Bill. Ginny then has a friendly final scene with Austin, who lets her in on the dance parties he's having in his office after hours now that his wife's kicked him out, but he mentions that the two of them will never be together romantically because they're both "lone wolves." Ginny seems to agree. Back at the Masters house, Libby has hired a new nanny, an 18-year-old African American girl named Coral (Keke Palmer), who Bill at first is skeptical about, but Libby insists she has all kinds of things she can teach her. She ends up confiding in her about Bill's distance and coolness toward his own child as they fold the laundry, but Libby seems to have a change of heart when the naive Coral proves to be not so naive in everything, as she figures out how to calm the baby's crying without feeding him. Bill now thinks she'll work out after all, and for some reason Libby turns into a bitch the next day and starts trying to correct Coral's grammar, forcing her to pronounce the word "ask" correctly and not to talk "her own way" in front of the baby. I didn't really understand this scene at all, since from all that we've ever seen of her, Libby's been nothing but sweet and kind to everyone, not jealous and bitter in the slightest (she's like the complete opposite of Betty Draper). I guess we'll see where that goes.
The episode ends with Bill and Ginny meeting up again at their hotel to walk in together as the faux married couple they're pretending to be, and I don't know how they're fooling themselves that this is "work," since neither of them is doing any work at all on the study at this point. All this secrecy is clearly for their own pleasure. But, since next week looks to be a kind of bottle episode, involving only Bill and Virginia in a sort of one act play, I can only assume we'll be finding out then what this "affair" is all about.
'Breaking Bad' Wins Top Honors from the TCA Awards
The 2014 Television Critics Association winners have been announced, with Breaking Bad, The Good Wife and Orange is the New Black taking home big prizes. The TCA seemed to really want to spread the wealth around this year:
- Program of the Year: Breaking Bad
- Best New Program of the Year: Orange is the New Black
- Best Comedy Series: (tie) Veep; Louie
- Best Drama Series: The Good Wife
- Best Miniseries: True Detective
- Best Individual Performance in Drama: Matthew McConaughey, True Detective
- Best Individual Performance in Comedy: Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Veep
- Best News and Information: Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey
- Best Reality Series: RuPaul's Drag Race
- Best Youth Program: The Fosters
- Heritage Award: Saturday Night Live
- Career Achievement: James Burrows
In case you were wondering, Program of the Year is meant to indicate the most culturally significant show, even if it's not the "best," while it's obvious they only called True Detective a miniseries so they could honor that in one of the categories without having to name it best drama or program of the year. I don't personally like these awards much- all the categories are kind of weird and seem designed so they can pick and choose what goes where so they can get away with choosing as much as possible.
TEASER: "Homeland" Season 4
We have a premiere date for the fourth season of Homeland, along with a new teaser and poster. Now all that's left is to see how Brody's exit from the show can maybe rejuvenate the series in some way. It's certainly going to have to become a different kind of animal, but maybe that's a good thing. Carrie's stationed in Pakistan this season and joined by new addition Corey Stoll and the stalwart Rupert Friend, and it looks like she's as unstable as ever. Homeland comes back October 5th on Showtime.
Elaine Stritch 1925-2014
Broadway legend Elaine Stritch died today at the age of 89. Best known for her decades of work on stage, but she also made regular appearances on television since the 1950's, both in America and on British TV. Most recently she became an Emmy winner for third time for her recurring guest role as Alec Baldwin's mother on 30 Rock (2007-2012). She appeared in occasional movie roles in her later years, notably Monster-in-Law with Jane Fonda, but it was always her stage work for which she was most known. She was nominated for five Tony awards and inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 1995.
TEASER: "The Fall" Season 2
I can't wait for this! The Fall was a British drama series that aired just five episodes last spring, but it was sooo good. It streamed on Netflix at the same time, so you should check it out if you can. It's creepy, but well worth your time. Gillian Anderson is an Irish detective tracking a serial killer (Jame Dornan), but on this show we get everything from her's and the killer's perspective, as we see how he fools his wife, his boss and the people around him. I thought I wouldn't be able to handle the ick factor but it's nowhere near as graphic as something like Hannibal. It's much more of a psychological, meticulous show (it's probably way too slow for some people, actually). It's returning this fall some time, but as you can see, no exact premiere date yet.
RECAP: 24 LAD "10:00 p.m. - 11:00 a.m."
Well, it's so long to Jack Bauer for what's perhaps the second series finale, although for all the producers' promises that this ending would bring some long awaited closure, I have to say that was a bald-faced lie, as the final scene was as open-ended and cliffhanger-y as any other 24 season finale. Which I consider a good thing in at least one respect, because I can't imagine them leaving Jack Bauer where he is now, headed off to prison in a foreign government for the second time.
But we pick up with Audrey hanging by a thread in the bullseye of a sniper, as she quivers on the park bench where all her security has just been shot. That includes her friend at the Chinese embassy, who's still moving, causing Audrey to make the very stupid decision to try to help her. When Cheng calls her and orders her back to the bench she says she just wants to help her friend, which of course leads them to shoot her again, this time killing her for sure. Why'd you do that Audrey? You know, she might have actually lived had you NOT told the shooters she wasn't dead yet. As Audrey waits for help, Jack, Kate and Mark are going through the dead Russian minister's stuff, where Jack finds emails of the location where Cheng and his men are being shipped out on the docks. He wants to head out but Mark suddenly gets a photo message from Cheng of Audrey on the bench. He panics and Cheng calls in to threaten Jack with Audrey's death if he comes after him. Mark wants to save Audrey but Kate says it's the president's orders to go after Cheng, offering to save Audrey herself. Jack agrees to it and tells her to go in covertly, without the CIA while he heads to the docks.
Meanwhile, Chloe is walking along the highway, all banged up after finally woken up from tumbling down the hill, and two passersby pull over to help. She calls Jack, who asks her where she is when she says she wants to help him apprehend Cheng. Jack's unsure, but Chloe insists that Adrian lied to her and she wants to make things right, so he agrees to come pick her up. When she gets in the car, Jack wants to know why she was with Adrian when he got the override device (which does not appear in this episode, by the way- nobody seems to care what happened to it), and Chloe again insists that she was used and the whole thing is partly her fault. Jack assures her it isn't and Chloe says she's still the only friend he's got left while she sets up equipment to run comm for the operation. Back at the CIA, Heller and his military advisors arrive to communicate with the Chinese president and keep trying to convince him to withdraw his navy ships, but the Chinese insist for the moment on retaliating for the sinking of the carrier, bringing the two countries ever closer to war.
Kate sets out to rescue Audrey as she sneaks up in the park with some covert CIA guys, and calls Audrey to let her know what's happening. She manages to communicate with Audrey and gets her to draw the sniper's fire so she can pinpoint his location, thinking Cheng won't really kill her (I have no idea why she thinks that, since Cheng's pretty ruthless). Cheng is on his way to the docks though, and just tells his henchman to kill her if he sees anything strange. Jack, Chloe and Belcheck (he returns!) make their own way to the docks, where Chloe sets up her computer to guide them through the buildings and alert them to where Cheng's men are positioned. Jack and Belcheck manage to take most of them out before Cheng and his men figure out someone's hacked their feed and are marching towards them. Chloe sees they've been spotted so she contacts Kate and tells her to get Audrey now before Cheng gives the kill order, and Kate and her guys go in, taking out the shooter and securing Audrey. Kate tells Chloe, Jack and Erik back at the CIA that Audrey's safe, leaving Jack with his mind solely on the mission, but uh-oh, she spoke too soon. For some reason, Kate decides to have everyone stroll leisurely through the open park now that Audrey's "safe," but suddenly a second shooter runs in front of them and opens fire, escaping in a car before they can respond. And it looks like this time he didn't miss, hitting Audrey squarely in the stomach as Kate tries to help her hang on. It's of no use though, as the long suffering Audrey bleeds out from the gunshot wound and is now no more, but for real this time and we know this because she does in fact get the silent clock treatment, unlike Heller did back in Wembley Stadium. And so another woman who was romantically involved with Jack Bauer dies a terrible death, continuing the curse (I think she's number five).
A teary-eyed Kate decides to call Jack in the middle of the operation for some reason to tell him of Audrey's death, and as a devastated Jack hangs up the phone, he gets a full minute to grieve like he did for Teri and Renee before going commando on the bad guys, which he pretty much always does in response to the death of a woman he loves. Jack takes out all the goons single-handedly (Belcheck seems to have gone in another direction), and finally gets to Cheng, whom he beats savagely before hauling him in front of the computers to send proof of his existence back to the CIA just as the Chinese army is crossing into U.S. waters. Gavin gets the video of a bruised and bloody Cheng, along with voice recognition, which Heller and the Chinese president seem to accept. China finally backs down and Jack avenges Audrey's death by grabbing an actual sword that was hanging on a nearby wall (uh-ok?), and slicing off Cheng's head samurai-style. Yikes. Good-bye Cheng. Although, was that not a pretty hasty move, considering he just showed everyone in the government that he had him in custody? Did they not need to bring him in? How will he explain the head-severing?
Heller's chief of staff receives the news of Audrey's death and has to inform the president, who refuses to believe it, since last he heard Audrey was meeting with the Chinese contact with Secret Service in tow. When he's assured it's true, he collapses in shock as the medical staff must run in to revive him. Jack and Belcheck run back to the dock entrance find Chloe, who they haven't heard from since they stormed Cheng and his men, and see that nobody's there, her stuff having been scattered and blood smeared on the floor. Jack is worried and shouts her name outside the satellite room, but no one answers. Just then his phone rings and he answers it, but we don't hear who's on the other end, just that it's someone who's apparently demanding a meeting time and place, which Jack agrees to immediately.
And now we finally, finally, get to the much-anticipated time jump, which was far too hyped in advance, as it really is just a quick "12 Hours Later" card, taking us to an epilogue that will complete the 24-hour time period. Yeah, not too exciting. Kate turns in her field report to Erik, who tells her it's not her fault that Audrey died, which she says she knows, but looks upset anyway. She then places her badge and gun on her desk and appears to quit, walking away from the station, but I hope if the show comes back, Kate does too, because Yvonne Strahovski was surprisingly good here, and one of Jack's best field colleagues (although I'd still really like to see Tony Almeida return once more). Erik then informs a destroyed Mark Boudreau that he's being taken back the U.S. in police custody as he harrowingly mourns his wife's death and asks about the President. Heller though, is having to board Air Force One and make the long flight back to the U.S. with Audrey's flag draped coffin. Prime Minister Davies apologizes and asks if there's anything he can do, but Heller just shakes his head and says there's nothing anyone can do, and that the only saving grace is that soon he won't remember any of this, not even that he had a daughter who died so tragically. It's a pretty affecting speech actually (William Duvane did a really nice job this season) as Heller sadly accompanies his beloved daughter back home (although it is very strange that absolutely none of the writers remembered that Heller had a son who played a pretty significant role back in Season 4- remember Richard, Mr. President? Your only son? Audrey's brother? He never died, as far as I can recall).
In the final scene, at 11:00 am, Jack and Belcheck pull up to the meeting place, and if you guessed that it was the Russians who kidnapped Chloe you were right, as it turns out they want to make an exchange- her freedom for Jack's life. Belcheck asks Jack if he really wants to do this and he says he does, walking up to the Russian's helicopter as they pull Chloe out in front of him. They also appear to have scrubbed all her makeup off, resulting in her looking better than she has all season. Jack demands that she walk first and as they push her out towards him, Jack squeezes Chloe's hand as he walks by her, telling her she's his best friend and to look in on his family once in a while. Awww. My heart breaks. Jack then threatens the Russians that if anything happens to her or his family their world will come apart, but they insist they only ever wanted him. Jack then smiles, seemingly content with his decision, as Chloe and Belcheck look on, Chloe giving him one last longing look as Jack gets into the chopper and it takes off as the clock counts down. Well, that was pretty much a redo of Season 5, with Jack handing himself over willingly this time to a foreign government, but it's nothing resembling closure. They can't leave Jack rotting in a foreign prison! I already see another series set in Moscow with Chloe, Kate and Belcheck teaming up to rescue him. Think it'll happen? One can only hope, as 24: Live Another Day ends with the promise at least, of continuing on, and since I thoroughly enjoyed this revived version of the show, I really hope it will. What do you think?
RECAP: Masters of Sex 2x01 "Parallax"
Masters of Sex returned last night with an excellent season two premiere that tried to cover a lot of ground to catch us up with what happened between Bill Masters and Virginia Johnson on that night when he showed up at her door in the rain and proclaimed that he couldn't live without her. We'll start with Bill. In the premiere, he's unemployed and having a hard time adjusting to his new role as a father. Quite an understatement actually, as he seems to be flat out hating it, ignoring the sound of Baby Johnny's crying and not wanting to be left alone with him while Libby goes out, even though as she points out to him, no one knows more about babies than he does. He actually turns up the music to drown out the baby's crying, which horrifies his mother Essie, whom he quickly sends running back to Ohio by confessing his continuing affair with GInny. He also keeps flashing back to that night at Ginny's where it turns out that she immediately invited him in and the two spent a torrid night together, free of all the wires and lab tables that had hindered every other time they'd had sex. No, this time it was different, and afterwards, when Ethan called, Ginny answered the phone to refuse his proposal and the move to California, telling him things had changed. Bill watched as she had the conversation in front of him, but as always, his emotions regarding Virginia are tough to read. Later on, he and Libby attend a fundraiser at another hospital, where Libby hopes he can get hired, but he runs into Betty DiMello (Annaleigh Ashford) again, along with her husband Greg Grunberg, who offers to make a donation to this hospital if they hire Bill and make room to accommodate his study. So Bill eventually gets what he wants, but Libby isn't thrilled about it, and neither is Betty, who's now a regular so we'll be seeing a lot more of her in the future.
Now onto Ginny, who's being accosted by hospital employees every day, thanks to her name being placed on the study, but she seems to be making friends with the philandering Dr. Langham, who suggests she supplement her income by selling diet pills to housewives. Ginny doesn't want to do it but gives it a shot because she needs the money for her kids. Libby comes by with the baby to visit, asking for advice about Bill, and the two are still friendly, but of course there's another level of awkwardness now that Ginny is having her ongoing affair with Libby's husband while continuing to stay pals with his wife (that would be weird). We also get flashbacks of Ginny's perspective on that night together, where she seemingly decides quickly to stay with Bill, but tells Ethan it's because of the "work," and seems to suggest the same to Bill when the two of them meet at a hotel the next night a half hour outside the city. The conversation is carefully measured, but Bill seems ready to make some admission of affection towards her until Ginny declares that an affair is too pedestrian for them and that this is still all about the work. Bill agrees and says he's happily married anyway (uh-huh) and wouldn't want to lead her on (gee, declaring you can't live without her in the rain on her doorstep couldn't possibly have done that, right?), and gets them a room under the registration of Dr. and Mrs. Holden. Well, they can call it whatever they want but I'm still going to refer to this as an affair, because it IS.
In supporting character news, Barton and Margaret Scully return tonight to a couple of continuing heartbreaking performances by Beau Bridges and Allison Janney as the doomed older couple. Barton's undergoing electroshock therapy to try to cure his homosexuality, which of course does nothing except torture the poor guy (at least Bill tries to talk him out of it), and he attempts to have sex with Margaret to pretty cringeworthy effect, as she realizes the only way he can do it is to turn her over and pretend she's a boy. Later, tragedy strikes when Margaret and Vivian return home from shopping, and Vivian goes down to the basement to find Barton's hung himself from the ceiling. Margaret and Vivian manage to cut him down and revive him before it's too late, but from that point on, Bill's attempts to get in touch with Barton about his new job are foiled with no explanation. And Lillian DePaul is back this season as Virginia's sometimes friend and current boss (but not for much longer I imagine), who's sporting a black eye but won't tell Ginny what happened, lamenting as they bond over drinks after work how no one believes it could possibly have been a man who hit her, because she never dates. Jane also shows up for one scene in this episode, to tell Ginny she's moving to California and that she should reconsider Ethan's proposal, since there's no hope of reviving the sex study. But Ginny as we all know is staying put, since history has to play itself out and we're still only in 1957.
So that was pretty much it, as this episode was filled with scenes exploring the confusing boundaries and undefined relationship Masters and Johnson continue to have, but Michael Sheen and Lizzy Caplan are both SO good that's it just a joy to watch them act as they try to find their way through this strange, unbreakable connection they have. And the same goes for Janney and Bridges, who could almost be on their own separate show, and I'm kind of upset that their screentime may be limited from this point on, since they're both on other series. But with Ashford back and Nicholas D'Agosto's boring Ethan seemingly gone (yea for that), it looks like Masters of Sex is off to a terrific start and I can't wait until next Sunday brings another installment. See you then!