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The blu-ray and dvd for S1 are out this week, as well. The Onion A|V Club on the set:
Masters Of Sex, season one
Showtimes Masters Of Sex had one of the most quietly confident first seasons around last year, one that was slightly overshadowed by a bunch of other stuff airing at the same time (and an unfair belief that the series was simply trying to copy Mad Men and didnt have anything to say of its own). Now that the show is on DVD and Blu-Ray, however, it would be a great time to catch up and realize just how good it truly is. The series chronicles the Masters and Johnson study on human sexuality, and in its first season, it took what could have been a clichéd approachpeople in 1950s America were scandalized by the consideration of sex in a scientific fashionand made it revelatory by digging deeper and examining all of the ways that intimacy binds human life together. That intimacy extended beyond the sexual, too, to things as simple as mere touch or being emotionally honest with someone. If nothing else, its worth it for some of the best performances on TV, with Beau Bridges and Allison Janney as a married couple facing a huge challenge, or Lizzy Caplan as the ahead-of-her-time Virginia Johnson, or Michael Sheen as the slowly disintegrating Bill Masters. Its frequently beautiful TV, with deeply moving emotional acuity.