Completing the challenges and struggles where the first season stops that follows William Master and Virginia Johnson, a couple of ambitious researchers, who make a controversial research in sex that leads to revolution and brings terrible for them. A new season begins with William and Virginia struggle against taking their job back.
For a show about sex and attraction, Masters of Sex is very cerebral, measured, distanced. But so are its characters, who use their intellects to protect their vulnerabilities.
[It] remains the rare show willing to dissect the stodgy constructs of polite society... It proves that the world as we know it doesn't need to end to inspire moments of beauty and horror. It just needs to be undressed a little.
