MASTERS OF SEX
DRAMA / ROMANTIC DRAMA
USA
2013-2016
MASTERS OF SEX is an American period drama television series that premiered on September 29, 2013, on Showtime. It was developed by Michelle Ashford and loosely based on Thomas Maier's biography Masters of Sex. MASTERS OF SEX consists of 46 episodes of 1 hour.
STORY: The series explores the research and the relationship between William Masters (Michael Sheen) and Virginia Johnson (Lizzy Caplan), two pioneering researchers of human sexuality at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri.
GAY COUPLE STORYLINE: Barton Scully (Beau Bridges) is a medical school provost and longtime friend of William Masters. Rob Benedict will appear in a multi-episode arc as Jonathan Laurents, the new office ultrasound technician working alongside Barton Scully at the Masters and Johnson clinic. They get a relationship together.
Barton Scully (Beau Bridges) & Jonathan Laurents (Rob Benedict)
BEAU BRIDGES (2013-2016) December 9, 1941, Los Angeles, CA, USA
ROB BENEDICT (2015) September 21, 1970, Columbia, MO, USA
SPECIAL: Prop master Jeffrey Johnson noted the difficulty of obtaining accurate information about sexual devices from the time period. "They were so taboo it was hard to find research drawings. People didn’t even put them in writing." He obtained some vintage vibrators and dildos for use in the series along with acquiring condoms manufactured in the era (which did not have the reservoir tips of modern condoms). He designed "Ulysses", a transparent dildo with attached camera first seen in the pilot episode, from scratch, along with a diaphragm sizing kit seen in later episodes.
AWARDS: ‘MASTERS OF SEX’ won 1 Primetime Emmy, 6 wins and 56 nominations.
7.9 IMDB
